Stroud Water Research Center
The hands-on interactive nature of the Model My Watershed® and Critical Zone Observatory projects received considerable attention from both speakers and educators.
Scientists are using new knowledge to provide an update of the River Continuum Concept and develop a broad model of carbon cycling.
Zaslavsky, I., T. Whitenack, M. Williams, D. Tarboton, K. Schreuders, and A.K. Aufdenkampe. 2011. Pages 145–150 in M. B. Jones and C. Gries (editors). Proceedings of the Environmental Information Management Conference 2011. University of California, Santa Barbara, California.
Costigan, K.H., and M.D. Daniels. 2012. River Research and Applications 29(2):161–171.
Hurricane data could reveal much about how soil erosion into rivers might bury carbon and sequester it from acting as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
Proia, L., S. Morin, M. Peipoch, A.M. Romaní, and S. Sabater. 2011. Science of the Total Environment. 409(17):3129–37.
Kan, J., B. Flood, J.P. McCrow, J.S. Kim, L. Tan, and K.H. Nealson. 2011. Journal of Microbiological Methods 86:62–68.
The difference between the organic materials that enter and leave a river system tells us how the river affects greenhouse gases.
Third article in a series about an international team of scientists following the transformation of river-borne carbon from the sources of the Fly River in Papua New Guinea to its sink.
Kan, J., P. Chellamuthu, A. Obraztsova, J.E. Moore, and K.H. Nealson. 2011. Journal of Applied Microbiology 111:329–337.