3.1 Cooperative Outcomes
(1) On the basis of the discussion, the experts are preparing a government advisory report on climate change and marine carbon sequestration and chapter V of the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 'Special Report on Climate Change and Oceans and the Cryosphere', on marine carbon sequestration.
(2) The representative of the Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission of UNESCO invites the Chairman of Yanqi Lake Meeting to lead the establishment of the international Working Group on Marine Carbon Sequestration, and to provide financial support.
(3) The results of Yanqi Lake Meeting were introduced at the following PICES annual meeting. After the high-level exchanges with ISME, the international peers have received further repercussions. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other seven top American universities and ocean research institutes jointly created the excellent education brand C-more to be incorporated into the content of ocean carbon sinks and to establish a joint science-education integration talent training base in China. (in discussion)
3.2 Relevant Special Topics
(1) Marine Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change, National Science Review, Volume 5, Issue 4, July 2018.
Guest Editorial
Editorial for the special issue on marine carbon sequestration and climate change
Research highlight
A recent project shows that the microbial carbon pump is a primary mechanism driving ocean carbon uptake
Perspectives
Unveiling the enigma of refractory carbon in the ocean
Blue carbon on the rise: Challenges and opportunities
Modelling marine DOC degradation time scales
An implementation strategy to quantify the marine microbial carbon pump and its sensitivity to global change
Review
Evolving paradigms in biological carbon cycling in the ocean
(2) Microbial Oceanography, Science China Earth Sciences, Volume 61, Number 10 & 12, October 2018.
Review
Significance of Vibrio species in the marine organic carbon cycle—A review Sulfur metabolism by marine heterotrophic bacteria involved in sulfur cycling in the ocean
Research paper
The shift of biogeochemical cycles indicative of the progressive marine ecosystem collapse across the Permian-Triassic boundary: An analog to modern oceans
Regeneration and utilization of nutrients during collapse of a Mesodinium rubrum red tide and its influence on phytoplankton species composition Differential physiological responses of the coastal cyanobacterium synechococcus sp. PCC7002 to elevated pCO2 at lag, exponential, and stationary growth phases
Review
Methane biotransformation in the ocean and its effects on climate change: A review
Climate tipping-point potential and paradoxical production of methane in a changing ocean
Progress
Prochlorococcus viruses—From biodiversity to biogeochemical cycles
(3) Carbon cycling in the China Seas, Science China Earth Sciences, Volume 61, Number 6 & 11 & 12, November 2018.
Review
Carbon sequestration processes and mechanisms in coastal mariculture environments in China
Research paper
Effects of seagrass leaf litter decomposition on sediment organic carbon composition and the key transformation processes
Quantitative model evaluation of organic carbon oxidation hypotheses for the Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotopic excursion
Progress
Coastal blue carbon: Concept, study method, and the application to ecological restoration
Research paper
Exploring seasonal acidification in the Yellow Sea Cross-shelf carbon transport under different greenhouse gas emission scenarios in the East China Sea during winter
Multi-scale variability of the tropical Indian Ocean circulation system revealed by recent observations
Review
Carbon pools and fluxes in the China Seas and adjacent oceans
Carbon fluxes in the China Seas: An overview and perspective
Carbon sinks/sources in the Yellow and East China Seas—Air-sea interface exchange, dissolution in seawater, and burial in sediments
Research paper
Modeling the contribution of the microbial carbon pump to carbon sequestration in the South China Sea