Department of Earth Sciences - Fall 2024 Seminar Series
Matt Winnick - UMass
Friday, October 25th
12:30PM
McHugh 301
Hydrologic constraints on greenhouse gas emissions from rivers and streams
Over the past decade, rivers and streams have been recognized as important sources of greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane to the atmosphere; however, their role in and potential response to anthropogenic climate change remains poorly characterized. In particular, we lack robust representations of the processes that control greenhouse gas production and emissions from these environments. In this talk, I discuss our recent efforts to characterize and develop physical models of carbon dioxide fluxes in stream environments, moving from reach to watershed to continental spatial scales.
For more information, contact: Christin Donnelly at christin.donnelly@uconn.edu