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• Develop overall sampling strategies from the ground up, utiliz-

ing the best available practices and technologies to respond to

changing local conditions while still providing quality results.

• Support high-quality observation platforms that provide his-

torical and ongoing observational context to mCDR activities,

including MRV and environmental impact assessments.

• Utilize and leverage existing monitoring platforms for mCDR

research, with care not to disrupt long-term “climate” time

series.

• Ensure monitoring systems provide highly resolved tempo-

ral and spatial variations to determine the relevant changes in

physical, chemical, and biological conditions.

• Co-develop biological indicators with both OA and mCDR

applications in mind.

• Encourage chemists and biologists to co-design mCDR research

to facilitate the understanding of environmental impacts and

monitoring requirements.

• Make data visualizations available in as near-real time as possi-

ble so that sampling efforts can be modified as needed to meet

the needs of field trials.

• Use existing data archive centers for both carbon and biological

data to contribute to open-access data sharing.

• Recognize that data management and quality assurance are

important contributions to mCDR: utilize existing best prac-

tices, provide metadata, and use quality assurance practices.

• Capitalize on modeling tools and expertise that have already

been developed across the necessary spatial scales.

• Provide local communities with opportunities to contribute to

monitoring their regions, allowing them to be informed and

involved in planning decisions.

• Collaborate across communities—co-develop mCDR research

with a range of interested parties from the beginning.

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