This collaborative research will generate the first model that links the water and carbon cycles of river catchments by focusing on the interactions of water movement and organic carbon in hillslope soils, individual stream reaches, and over the entire river network.
Funded by: National Science Foundation EAR 0450331
Principal Investigator: Louis A. Kaplan
Collaborators: J. Denis Newbold and Anthony K. Aufdenkampe (Stroud Water Research Center), and George M. Hornberger (Vanderbilt University)
Project Years: 2008, 2009