Award Abstract # 0851101
ETBC: Collaborative Research: Controls on the Flux, Age, and Composition of Terrestrial Organic Carbon Exported by Rivers to the Ocean

NSF Org: OCE
Division Of Ocean Sciences
Recipient: WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER INC
Initial Amendment Date: March 17, 2009
Latest Amendment Date: December 4, 2012
Award Number: 0851101
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Donald L. Rice
OCE
 Division Of Ocean Sciences
GEO
 Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date: March 15, 2009
End Date: February 28, 2013 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $0.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $842,431.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2009 = $842,431.00
History of Investigator:
  • Robert Spencer (Principal Investigator)
    rgspencer@fsu.edu
  • Wilfred Wollheim (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Nadine Laporte (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Scott Goetz (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Robert Holmes (Former Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc.
149 WOODS HOLE RD
FALMOUTH
MA  US  02540-1644
(508)444-1526
Sponsor Congressional District: 09
Primary Place of Performance: Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc.
149 WOODS HOLE RD
FALMOUTH
MA  US  02540-1644
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
09
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): F5HBB1KH19N4
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): Chemical Oceanography,
Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem,
EMERGING TOPICS
Primary Program Source: 01000910DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 1389, 4444, 7764, EGCH
Program Element Code(s): 167000, 729500, 776400
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.050

ABSTRACT

Scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Woods Hole Research Center will characterize the sources, pathways, and timescales of riverine export of carbon, especially organic carbon, from land to sea. To attain their goal, the proponents will integrate geochemical measurements on the temporal and spatial changes in the composition of dissolved and particulate river loads combined with spatial and temporal data on relevant ecosystem, hydrologic, geologic, geomorphologic, and climatologic characteristics obtained from remote sensing and GIS mapping. The study will be conducted on six large river basins, namely the Brahmaputra, Congo, Ganges, Lena, Fraser, and Yangtze. This represents an integrated, multi-disciplinary project that focuses on an emerging topic in carbon cycling because processes occurring at the land/ocean boundary have not been adequately addressed to date. Lack of this information represents a glaring omission for marine scientists involved in establishing the carbon cycle of the ocean.

As regards broader impacts, a traveling art exhibition based on the artwork of students living near their study sites in Siberia, Bangladesh, India, Canada, China, and Africa will be developed. The exhibition idea is based on their successful pilot program entitled 'My River, My Home' carried out on the Lena River. It is anticipated that the exhibit will engage local populations at the study sites as well as document the scientific and cultural aspects of the project to a broader public audience. In addition, the project represents a strong collaborative effort between scientists in the United States and colleagues in Russia, China, Canada, Bangladesh, the Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo and France. Two graduate students and one postdoc will be supported and trained as part of this project.

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Galy V, T Eglinton "Protracted storage of biospheric organic carbon in the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin" Nature Geoscience , v.4 , 2011 , p.843-847 10.1038/NGEO1293
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Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B "Land2Sea database of river drainage basin sizes, annual water discharges, and suspended sediment fluxes" GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS , v.10 , 2009 View record at Web of Science 10.1029/2008GC00235
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