"Our results suggest that sunlight, rather than biological processes, controls the fate of carbon released from thawing permafrost soils into Arctic surface waters," said aquatic geochemist Rose Cory, first author of the Science paper and an assistant professor in the U-M Dept. of Earth and Environm
"It turns out, that in Arctic rivers and lakes, sunlight is faster than bacteria at turning organic carbon into CO2," noted lead author Rose Cory, an assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at University of Michigan.
The team, which also includes Kling, led by Rose Cory of the University of North Carolina, found that sunlight pushes up bacterial conversion of exposed soil carbon into CO2 by at least 40 percent, compared to unexposed carbon, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports.
Date: Feb 12, 2013
Category: Sci/Tech
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Increased Melting and Slumping Soil Produce High Amounts of CO2, Tied to ...
Every spring, water from massive amounts of melting snow floods the arctic plains. The water carries with it soil containing high amounts of carbon, which later on is oxidized by bacteria into carbon dioxide, says environmental scientist Rose Cory. This carbon from melting permafrost accounts to nea
Rose Cory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her colleagues, studying melting permafrost sites in the arctic, found the amount of CO2 released was 40 percent higher when the melt water was exposed to ultraviolet light than when kept dark, buried in the permafrost.
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