CO2 Project
Scientists representing seven LTER sites, five
countries, and two federal agencies are participating in a program to
examine continental scale patterns in the role of surface waters in
landscape-scale carbon dynamics. The CO2 project,
which includes a summer field data collection program at sites worldwide,
has three major objectives:
Identify the continental-scale
patterns in CO2 saturation and compare the relative
importance of terrestrial carbon inputs to lakes and streams in arctic,
temperate and sub-tropical environments
- Begin to determine at the landscape
scale how specific processes, such as hydrologic inputs or carbon uptake
by primary producers, relate to observed variation of CO2 saturation in neighboring or interconnected lakes and
streams
- Evaluate, using long-term data
records of CO2 saturation, the magnitude of change
over time in the relative importance of land-water linkages
For more information:
Tim Kratz
tkratz@lternet.edu 715/356-9494
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