Coastal Observations, Mechanisms, and Predictions Across Systems and Scales – Field, Measurements and Experiments
EMSL Project ID
60511
Abstract
The multi-institutional effort, Coastal Observations, Mechanisms, and Predictions Across Systems and Scales – Field, Measurements and Experiments (COMPASS-FME) pilot project, led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will dramatically enhance predictive model development and parameterization of coastal systems, including their response to short- and long-term changes through mechanistic understanding of interactions among ecology and biogeochemistry within the coastal terrestrial–aquatic interface (TAI). In the pilot project (FY 21-23), we proposed to advance understanding of coupled interactions of waters, soils and plants as drivers of nutrient fluxes and transformations across the TAI. We focus on intermittently inundated and tidally influenced ecosystems to improve multiscale integrated models, by investigating field sites and experiments to improve representation of coupled processes from point to site scale.
Our scientific grand challenge is to dramatically enhance predictive understanding of coastal systems, including their response to short- and long-term changes.
Specifically, COMPASS is poised to address the following science questions:
1. What multiscale mechanisms govern the structure, function, and dynamics of coastal systems at different spatial and temporal scales?
2. How do coastal systems respond to natural and anthropogenic influences?
3. Can we generalize new process knowledge and predictive skill gained at a small number of sites or regions across the observed diversity of coastal systems and zones?
Project Details
Start Date
2022-05-26
End Date
2022-09-30
Status
Closed
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