SCHUUR LAB - ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS RESEARCH

  • Eight Mile Lake, AK; C. Schädel
  • Eight Mile Lake, AK; C. Schädel
  • Alaska Range; credit: C. Schädel
  • Automated Flux Chambers
  • Eriophorum Vaginatum
  • foggy mountains in Healy
  • Winter setting in Healy, AK
  • Winter snow fences
  • Dall Sheep, Denali National Park
  • Fall at CiPEHR
  • Spring at CiPEHR
  • Fall at the Gradient site; credit: E. Webb
  • Snowfences at CiPEHR; credit: S. Natali
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News and Updates:

August 2021: Monthly Carbon Updates from Eight Mile Lake, AK

We show the cumulative flux of carbon (as carbon dioxide) to the atmosphere since eddy covariance measurements at Eight Mile Lake began in May 2008.

Check out the monthly update here

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May 2021: New NAU study measures long-term carbon loss from thawing permafrost in Alaska

New long-term data from a permafrost monitoring site in Healy, Alaska, suggest it was a net carbon source to the atmosphere at least since 2004 and, under current climate conditions as the region grows warmer, will continue to be one, potentially losing up to a fifth of all carbon stored in the active layer of soil by the end of the century.

Read the full article here

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This is the home page for Dr. Ted Schuur's laboratory at the Center of Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) at Northern Arizona University.

The research in our lab focuses on:

  • the interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and global change
  • the exchange of carbon between plants, soils, and the atmosphere
  • understanding the response of terrestrial ecosystems to changes in climate and disturbance regimes
  • responses of arctic ecosystems to climate change
  • radiocarbon dating
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    Please see below for details on our research, our lab members and publications

     

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    new publications

    Garnello A et al. 2021 Projecting Permafrost Thaw of Sub-Arctic Tundra With a Thermodynamic Model Calibrated to Site Measurements Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126 e2020JG006218 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006218

    Mauritz M et al. 2021 Investigating thaw and plant productivity constraints on old soil carbon respiration from permafrost Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciencese2020JG006000 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006000

    Pegoraro EF et al. 2021 Lower soil moisture and deep soil temperatures in thermokarst features increase old soil carbon loss after 10 years of experimental permafrost warming Global Change Biology 27 1293–308 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15481

    Schuur EAG et al. 2021 Tundra Underlain By Thawing Permafrost Persistently Emits Carbon to the Atmosphere Over 15 Years of Measurements Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126 e2020JG006044 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006044

     

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