LAND-OCEAN INTERACTIONS IN THE COASTAL ZONE
January `97
No. 2
LOICZ NEWSLETTER
COASTAL SEAS,
A CARBON SOURCE OR
SINK?
major goal of the IGBP is
to improve our knowledge
A of the global carbon cycle.
Current global carbon
models contain a large number of
uncertainties and many of these
could be due to poorly understood
processes occurring in the coastal
zone. A central question to LOICZ
is whether the world's coastal
zone is a net source or sink of
New Executive
carbon dioxide under present day
Officer for LOICZ
conditions. A general overview of
the issues and uncertainties of
carbon cycling in coastal seas is
This is the second newsletter of
r. Roy C. Sidle has ac-
given in LOICZ Reports and
the Land Ocean Interactions in
cepted the position of
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Studies No. 1.
the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Core
Executive Officer at the
Project of the IGBP. It will be
LOICZ Core Project Office,
The LOICZ Implementation Plan
produced quarterly to provide
and joined the CPO staff at the
outlines steps to develop a series
news and information regarding
Netherlands Institute for Sea
of carbon flow models of the
LOICZ activities.
Research (NIOZ) on Dec. 1, 1996.
world's coastal zone. An impor-
Dr. Sidle comes to the position
tant initial step is to develop bio-
FOR MORE
from his past appointment as
geochemical models for selected
Senior Research Hydrologist in the
coastal regions around the world
INFORMATION, PLEASE
Geological Survey of Denmark
for which data are currently avail-
CONTACT:
and Greenland. Prior to that, he
able. Guidelines for doing this are
was a research scientist and
reported in LOICZ Reports and
LOICZ CORE PROJECT
Project Leader with USDA Forest
Studies No. 5. It recommends that
OFFICE
Service in Alaska and Utah for 15
initial modelling efforts should
NETHERLANDS
years. He has also served in
focus on developing relatively
positions as Watershed Extension
simple stoichiometrically-linked
INSTITUTE
Specialist with Oregon State
budgets of carbon, nitrogen and
FOR SEA RESEARCH
University and as research
phosphorus, but in time should
PO BOX 59
scientist with USDA Agricultural
consider development of more
1790 AB DEN BURG -
Research Service.
detailed systems models where
TEXEL
data and resources allow.
THE NETHERLANDS
With training in hydrology, soil
science, and civil engineering, Dr.
A substantial start on this task has
Sidle has BSc and MSc degrees
already been made. For example,
PHONE: 31-222 369404
from the University of Arizona and
many suitable biogeochemical
FAX: 31-222 369430
a PhD from Pennsylvania State
budgets for different geographic
E-MAIL: LOICZ@NIOZ.NL
University. Recent research
regions around the world have
WWW H
interests include cumulative water-
OME PAGE:
already been published in the
shed effects, streamflow gener-
scientific literature.
HTTP://WWW.NIOZ.NL/LOICZ/
ation, landslide analysis and
contaminant transport.
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LOICZ NEWSLETTER
Source or Sink continued from Page 1
in Southeast Asia. (see report on New EO continued from Page 1
the Vietnam workshop on page 4).
Further examples are provided in
Dr. Roy Sidle has worked exten-
the LOICZ biogeochemical mod-
Altogether, these various coordi- sively in coastal watershed sys-
elling guidelines. Additional bud-
nated LOICZ efforts are expected tems from both a scientific and a
gets were recently developed at
to result, in five years time, in a
management standpoint, dealing
the Continental Margin Task
much clearer understanding of
with the interaction between
Team (CMTT) workshop held in
carbon cycling in the world's
forestry and fisheries in both ter-
October 1996 at the Nigerian
coastal zone and how it is
restrial and marine environments.
Institute for Oceanography and
influenced by human activities.
His background includes the de-
Marine Research in Lagos (see
velopment, co-ordination, and
report elsewhere in this newslet-
management of multi-disciplinary
ter). It is anticipated that budgets
research focused on water quality
LOICZ PROJECT
will be developed for additional
and integrated ecosystem studies.
important coastal regions around
INFO REQUESTED He has authored two books, over
the world as part of national
fifty refereed journal papers, and
LOICZ programs.
numerous other professional
n July, 1996, LOICZ, through
publications, and he holds
In order to meet the global objec-
the national contacts, sent
I
appointments as Adjunct
tives of LOICZ, it will be neces-
out a request for information
Professor in the Departments of
sary to develop first order budgets
on research proposals for
Forest Re-sources, and Civil and
of carbon, nitrogen and
formal acceptance by LOICZ.
Environmental Engineering at
phosphorus for all major coastal
Project submissions were
Utah State University. For the
regions of the world, including
received and reviewed by SSC-
past six years he has been Assoc
those for which data are either
Execomm for relevance to the
Editor of Journal of Environmental
sparse or non-existent, which can
global aims of LOICZ.
Quality and is now on the editorial
be combined to provide a global
staff of the Journal of Forest
overview of coastal biogeo-
Approved projects will be listed on
Research pub-lished by the
chemical balances. Critical to this
the LOICZ WWW Home Page
Japanese Forestry Society.
exercise will be the existence of a
following finalisation of agree-
global typology framework that
ments between LOICZ and the
In addition to his past appoint-
can help guide the extrapolation
investigators.
ment involving work within
of data from one region to another
Denmark and the European
in order to fill important data gaps.
Additional submissions are
Commission, Dr. Sidle's inter-
Continued development of the
solicitated and can be made by
national experience includes
coastal typology is being given
completing the attached forms
receipt of a fellowship from the
high priority by LOICZ because of
and sending them to the LOICZ
Science and Technology Agency
its importance to biogeochemical
CPO.
of Japan to develop co-operative
modelling as well as other
studies in watershed hydrology
activities of LOICZ (see report
and erosion, and numerous
elsewhere in this newlsetter).
LOICZ OSM3
follow-on collaborations in Japan.
He has also carried out research
An important component of the
oordwijkerhout, The
or consulting activities in Canada,
overall LOICZ project is to better
Netherlands, will be the site
Iceland, Indonesia, Malaysia, New
understand the interactions be-
of the third LOICZ Open
Zealand, Norway, Oman, PR
N
tween global change and human
Science Meeting, October
China, Taiwan and Thailand.
activity in the coastal zone. For
10-13th, 1997 (yes, this is a
example, important biogeo-
week-end). Planning has begun
Roy was raised on a small farm in
chemical pathways in the coastal
with recent meetings between
eastern Pennsylvania, USA and
zone have been measurably in-
CPO staff, SSC and the National
has two children, Shelley working
fluenced by human activities in
Committee, after an offer by the
in Salt Lake City, USA and Brad,
many parts of the world during the
National Netherlands LOICZ
a student at Univeristy of
past, and these changes are likely
Committee to assist in organising
Kentucky. Roy is interested in
to increase in the near future as
the meeting was gratefully
various outdoor activities, an avid
the human population continues
accepted by the LOICZ SSC. The
baseball fan and is committed to
to grow. In turn, global environ-
programme will be finalised soon
establishing a smoke-free LOICZ
mental change is having an im-
and will include topics such as the
CPO environment.
pact on human populations living
integration of natural science and
in the coastal zone. This difficult
socio-economics, biogeochemical
He replaces Dr. John C.
task requires the development of
modelling and material flux
Pernetta, who left the LOICZ
conceptual frameworks for inte-
across the continental shelf,
CPO in May to accept a position
grating biogeochemical and
coastal typologies, biogeomor-
with the GEF Co-ordination unit of
socio-economic models which
phology, and European, as well
UNEP in Nairobi, Kenya.
has been initiated as part of the
as, Southeast Asian regional
SARCS/WOTRO/LOICZ project
studies.

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LOICZ NEWSLETTER
CMTT & LAGOS
B
WORKSHOP
RESULTS
he Continental Margins
T
A
Task Team (CMTT) is an
intercore activity formed to
address common interests of the
D
Joint Global Ocean Flux Studies
C
(JGOFS) and LOICZ Core
Projects of the IGBP. The Projects
share a primary interest in mate-
rial fluxes across the continental
The workshop included parti-
data (LOICZ R&S 5 and LOICZ
margins and the CMTT was estab-
cipants from each region and
R&S 7) with coastal typologies
lished to bring together coastal
"resource people" to facilitate the that provide a manageable
and oceanic researchers to de-
effort. The meeting consisted of 3
method of extrapolation from
velop methodologies for studying
days for each regional group to
known to similar but unknown
fluxes across the continental mar-
prepare a consensus budget for areas (LOICZ Implementation
gins. The Task Team, co-chaired
their system, and a general re-
Plan).
by Dr. Julie Hall (JGOFS) and
view. The budgets and workshop
Prof. Stephen Smith (LOICZ),
proceedings are published in
Following an initial trial typology
has prepared a report describing
LOICZ R&S No. 9.
exercise (LOICZ R&S 3), LOICZ
methods for interaction and com-
has collaborated with the FAO in
piling a list of continental margin
It was the consensus of the
producing a typology of coastal
research (LOICZ R&S No. 8). The
participants that:
lowlands (LOICZ Meeting Report
CMTT recognised that, in order to
- the budgeting approach is a
No. 18). LOICZ interests in river
gain a global view of shelf
diagnostic tool which is useful for typologies (GLORI: LOICZ R&S
function over the duration of the
comparing systems; and,
5) and groundwater discharge
JGOFS and LOICZ Projects, a
- this tool can yield new insights (LOICZ Meeting Report No. 17,
great deal of the effort will need to
into the performance of even well
LOICZ R&S 8) have also been
be focused on existing data of
studies systems.
driven largely by the need to glob-
variable quality and extent and
alise terrestrial inputs to the
that it would be necessary to work
For additional information on
coastal zone.
with a broad variety of shelf-sea
CMTT activities, access the
types.
CMTT WWW Home page at:
The next major step will be work-
http://keep.oc.ntu.edu.tw/cmtt
ing with the LOICZ Biogeochemi-
In order gain experience with
cal modelling node and other SSC
these approaches and to test the
or contact:
members and advisors to develop
utility of the guidelines - which
Dr. Julie Hall
hierarchical typologies for the
were primarily developed from the
NIWA, New Zealand
open shelf region, the estuarine
perspective of inshore systems
Fax: 64 7 856 0151
zone, and the terrestrial coastal
such as bays and estuaries - a
e-mail: j.hall@niwa.cri.nz
environment. Although the initial
workshop was convened at the
efforts will be focused on globali-
Nigerian Institute for Oceano-
sation of biogeochemical models,
graphy and Marine Research in
close coordination with socioeco-
Lagos, Nigeria, October 14-18th,
COASTAL
nomic researchers will be main-
1996.
TYPOLOGY: THE tained to ensure that the typolo-
gies can ultimately be expanded
The workshop studied methods to
GLOBALISATION to include human dimensions as
develop simple water and salt
well as other factors.
budgets to estimate water
CHALLENGE
exchange, and the use of stoichio-
Following a small workshop,
metric simplifications to approxi-
LOICZ will feature typology issues
mate the biogeochemical path-
he role of the coastal zone in the upcoming Open Science
ways and estimate net system up-
in the Total Earth System
T
Meeting (see article, this newslet-
take or release of C, N and P.
will clearly not be
ter). Because typologies and the
determined by direct
related issue of scaling are con-
Four areas were chosen as case
measurement or experimentation
cerns throughout the IGBP,
studies to represent a range of
during the lifetime of the IGBP.
LOICZ actively solicits sugges-
environments and data
Understanding must come from
tions, references, or contacts with
availability: A)East China Sea;
globalisation of available data,
others addressing similar prob-
B)North Sea; C)Peru-Chile coast;
which means coupling the biogeo- lems; interested parties should
D)Gulf of Guinea (see figure).
chemical models and budgetary
contact the CPO.

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LOICZ NEWSLETTER
INTEGRATION
LOICZ
CPO STAFF
WORKSHOP
WHO'S WHO
ROY C. SIDLE,
Executive Officer
SUCCESSFUL
PAUL R. BOUDREAU,
he LOICZ Core Project
Project Scientist
would like to thank to out- CYNTHIA PATTIRUHU,
T
s reported in the first
going SSC members Dr. D.
Office Administrator
newsletter, a workshop
C. (Don) Gordon and Dr. MILDRED JOURDAN,
A was held recently in V. (Slava) Gordeev for their hard
Secretary
Hanoi, Vietnam, cospon-
work and dedication.
MARTIJN VAN DER ZIJP
sored by SARCS/WOTRO/
Dr. Gordon has been an
Data Analyst
LOICZ to initiate development
active member of the SSC from REGINA FOLORUNSHO
of a conceptual framework for
1993-96. He has served on the
GIS Analyst
the integration of socio-
LOICZ Executive Committee as
economic and natural sciences.
member-at-large, and has also
NEW LOICZ PUBLICATIONS
The 30 participants reviewed
played a leading role in the devel-
the work and plans of the five
opment of the LOICZ Biogeo- - First Report of the JGOFS/LOICZ
core research sites and began
chemical Modelling Guidelines as Continental Margins Task Team.
work on a guidelines document.
chair of a number of workshops LOICZ Reports & Studies No. 7.
This initiative builds on
and as the lead author of the
the two existing LOICZ Guide-
Guidelines.
- Proceedings of the International
line documents for biogeochem-
Dr. Gordeev has been a Symposium on Groundwater Flux
ical modelling and coastal zone
member of the SSC since 1993. He to the Coastal Zone.
resource assessment. Indepen-
played an active role in organising LOICZ Reports & Studies No. 8.
dent of each other, the Core
the LOICZ-RAS Groundwater Sym-
Project teams prepared initial
posium and has maintained con- - Report on the International
drafts conceptual frameworks
tacts with coastal arctic research Workshop on Continental Shelf
for such integration. These
initiatives.
Fluxes of Carbon, Nitrogen and
drafts were used as a starting
We welcome Dr. Nick Phosphorus.
point for developing a single
Harvey who joins LOICZ as SSC LOICZ Reports & Studies No. 9.
consistent conceptual frame-
member on Jan. 1, 1997. His PhD
work.
is in geomorphology; he was previ- - Report of the Second LOICZ
Much of the meeting fo-
ously employed with the Dept. of Executive Committee Meeting.
cused on attempts to establish
Environment and Management in Texel, the Netherlands, November
the economic values associated
South Australia, and is presently 1996. LOICZ/EXCOMM.2.
with particular components of
Assoc. Prof. in Environmental Meeting Report No. 19.
coastal ecosystems, that is, the
Studies at the University of
output to the economy.
Adelaide. He also has a Master of - Report on the SARCS/WOTRO/
Plans are underway for a
Planning degree. He has published LOICZ Workshop on Integrated
number of smaller workshops
extensively in the areas of coastal Natural and Socio-economic
for 1997 that will draft guide-
management, environmental im- Modelling, Hanoi, Vietnam.
lines to be presented and dis-
pact assessment and coastal physi- Meeting Report No. 20.
cussed at the
cal processes. We look forward to
SARCS/WOTRO/LOICZ work-
his contributions to LOICZ coastal CPO Credits
shop to be held in the
science syntheses.
The LOICZ community would like
Philippines in November, 1997.
to thank Dr. Robert Buddemeier
At the ExeComm meeting who has recently completed a 6-
LOICZ 1997 CALENDAR
in Nov., Dr. Robert Buddemeier month sabbatical with the LOICZ
was named Task Team Leader for CPO. During that period, Dr.
- LOICZ SSC6 Meeting May 28-
Focus 2 (Coastal Biogeomorphol- Buddemeier played a significant
30, Ensenada, Mexico.
ogy and Global Change). In this ca- role in furthering the development
- LOICZ Budget Modelling
pacity he joins Jeff Richey and of LOICZ Scientific research. In
Workshop, June 1-2, Ensenada,
Kerry Turner as vice-chairs of the addition to providing general help
Mexico.
SSC.
and guidance, he has played a
- LOICZ SSC7 Meeting, October
major role in setting up a
10 & 13, The Netherlands.
"Science is built up of facts, as a
groundwater initiative to study
- LOICZ Open Science Meeting,
house is built of stones; but an
fluxes into the coastal zone.
October 10 -13,The Netherlands.
accumulation of facts is no more
Although he returns to the
- SARCS/WOTRO/LOICZ P.I.
a science than a heap of stones
Kansas Geological Survey, he
Meeting, November, The
is a house."
continues to function as an active
Philippines.
member of the LOICZ SSC.

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