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Understanding Lake Carbon Cycles
Lead Scientist(s): Dr. Christopher T. Solomon
Lakes are hotspots in landscape-level carbon cycles, burying or returning to the atmosphere more than half of the carbon that they receive from their watersheds. Furthermore, carbon inputs and within-lake processing can both be significantly altered by anthropogenic environmental change. We are using automated sensor networks, hydrologic and biogeochemical budgets, and models to try to improve understanding of lake carbon cycles and their potential responses to environmental change.
- Publications
Zwart, Jacob A., Oleksandra Hararuk, Y.T. Prairie, S. E. Jones, and Christopher T. Solomon. 2019. “Improving Estimates and Forecasts of Lake Carbon Dynamics Using Data Assimilation”. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 17 (2): 97-111. doi:10.1002/lom3.10302.
Jones, S. E., Jacob A. Zwart, P.T. Kelly, and Christopher T. Solomon. 2018. “Hydrologic Setting Constrains Lake Heterotrophy and Terrestrial Carbon Fate”. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. doi:10.1002/lol2.10054.
Kelly, P.T., Christopher T. Solomon, Jacob A. Zwart, and S. E. Jones. 2018. “A Framework for Understanding Variation in Pelagic Gross Primary Production of Lake Ecosystems”. Ecosystems 62. doi:10.1007/s10021-018-0226-4.
Hanson, Zachary, Jacob A. Zwart, Joseph Vanderwall, Christopher T. Solomon, S. E. Jones, Alan F. Hamlet, and Diogo Bolster. 2018. “Integrated, Regional-Scale Hydrologic Modeling of Inland Lakes”. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 54 (6): 1302-24. doi:10.1111/1752-1688.12688.
Hararuk, Oleksandra, Jacob A. Zwart, S. E. Jones, Y.T. Prairie, and Christopher T. Solomon. 2018. “Model-Data Fusion to Test Hypothesized Drivers of Lake Carbon Cycling Reveals Importance of Physical Controls”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. doi:10.1002/2017JG004084.
Zwart, Jacob A., S.D. Sebestyen, Christopher T. Solomon, and S. E. Jones. 2017. “The Influence of Hydrologic Residence Time on Lake Carbon Cycling Dynamics Following Extreme Precipitation Events”. Ecosystems 20 (5): 1000-1014. doi:10.1007/s10021-016-0088-6.
Zwart, Jacob A., S.D. Sebestyen, Christopher T. Solomon, and S. E. Jones. 2016. “The Influence of Hydrologic Residence Time on Lake Carbon Cycling Dynamics Following Extreme Precipitation Events”. Ecosystems, 1-15. doi:10.1007/s10021-016-0088-6.
Zwart, Jacob A., N. Craig, P.T. Kelly, Christopher T. Solomon, Brian C. Weidel, and S. E. Jones. 2016. “Metabolic and Physiochemical Responses to a Whole-Lake Experimental Increase in Dissolved Organic Carbon in a North-Temperate Lake”. Limnology and Oceanography 61: 723-34. doi:10.1002/lno.10248.
Vachon, D., Christopher T. Solomon, and P. A. del Giorgio. 2016. “Reconstructing the Seasonal Dynamics and Relative Contribution of the Major Processes Sustaining CO<sub>2< sub> Emissions in Northern Lakes”. Limnology and Oceanography 62 (2): 706-22. doi:10.1002/lno.10454.
Zwart, Jacob A., Christopher T. Solomon, and S. E. Jones. 2015. “Phytoplankton Traits Predict Ecosystem Function in a Global Set of Lakes”. Ecology 96: 2257-64. doi:10.1890/14-2102.1/full.