Byron Crump

Oregon State University

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Projects

The fate of newly exposed carbon in the Arctic - controls on release to the atmosphere and transport to the ocean

Lead Institution

University of Michigan

Principal Investigator

Rose Cory

Project type

Limited Scope

In the last 10 years the increasing heat of debate on how climate-change impacts to the Arctic will feed back to affect global temperatures has mirrored the arctic warming itself. Tremendous stores…

Decoding DOM degradation: how does carbon source and sunlight exposure alter microbial metabolism and expression of genome-encoded metabolic degradation of permafrost organic matter?

Lead Institution

Oregon State University

Principal Investigator

Byron Crump

Project type

FICUS Research

Climate change in the Arctic is progressing rapidly, thawing large areas of permafrost that contain nearly half of the world's soil organic carbon. Conversion of this carbon pool to greenhouse…

Sunlight exposure replaces the function of microbial enzymes needed to degrade DOM

Lead Institution

Oregon State University

Principal Investigator

Byron Crump

Project type

FICUS Research

About half of the dissolved organic matter (DOM) released from land is converted to CO2 in inland waters (e.g., streams, rivers, lakes), driving a CO2 flux to the atmosphere roughly equal to the net…