Collin Ward

University of Michigan

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…

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

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The carbon (C) in thawing permafrost soils may have global impacts on climate change, yet the controls on processing and fate of this newly released C are poorly understood. Inland waters are…

Identifying controls on the degradation of dissolved black carbon in sunlit surface waters.

Lead Institution

University of Michigan

Principal Investigator

Rose Cory

Project type

Limited Scope

Black carbon is the residual, charred vegetation remaining after wildfires or biomass burning in terrestrial ecosystems. This large pool of carbon is more recalcitrant to microbial degradation in…