Saturday, June 28, 2025

Dr. Karen Filbee-Dexter: A blueprint for national assessments of the blue carbon capacity of kelp forests applied to Canada’s coastline

 npj | ocean sustainability Article https://doi.org/10.1038/s44183-025-00125-6 A blueprint for national assessments of the blue carbon capacity of kelp forests applied to Canada’s coastline

 

Karen Filbee-Dexter, Ph.D. researcher on Kelp MacroAlgae carbon sequestration rates

 A full description of the methods can be found in Filbee-Dexter et al.24
. From this global model,  we determined the average carbon export rate for each of Canada’s three coasts (Expcoast). To estimate the carbon export flux potential from kelp
forests on each coast (CFluxcoast), we multiplied the average carbon export
rate (Expcoast) by the annual per-area carbon production rate of kelp forests
for a given coast (CProdcoast; calculated above). Finally, we calculated the
total carbon export capacity of kelp forests per coast in terms of the maximum, high, and lower extent estimates.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXBx-UZaQ64

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PygqByI2vt0

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc74vrRe-nM

 https://wernberglab.org/current-staff-students-and-visitors/karen-filbee-dexter/

 My research focuses on the ecological impacts of climate change and the functioning of the world’s seaweed forests. This includes understanding kelp carbon cycling and storage, regime shifts to sea urchin barrens and turfs, and climate-driven expansion of kelp forests in some Arctic regions. I am working with seaweed cultivators to develop unscaled restoration approaches for kelp forests. I take a broad scale approach to ecology, leading multiple international networks and running comparative field experiments across 3 continents. I co-supervise and mentor 4 PhD and 3 MSc students.

 Sept 2021-Sept 2024: Collaborator Fisheries and Oceans Canada Science Contribution. Blue carbon as a Canadian climate change solution: modelling the mitigation potential of kelp under future climate change scenarios. UVIC. Budget: 300 000 CAD

 https://www.hi.no/hi/om-oss/ansatte/karen-filbee-dexter

 https://alaskabeacon.com/2022/09/20/ever-heard-of-ocean-forests-theyre-larger-than-the-amazon-and-more-productive-than-we-thought/

 

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