Two researchers from North Arizona University have been awarded $1.3m to push forward projects that are working to predict carbon storage by plants and soil in critical regions of the globe, and how that storage is being altered by changing climate patterns.
Awarded by the National Science Foundation, the researchers from the Centre for Ecosystem Science and Society at NAU will focus on tundra and boreal forests and the continental US.
The projects will examine the stability of carbon sinks – a metaphor describing the process by which CO2 is pulled out of the atmosphere and locked away in plants and soils – and under what future conditions such sinks may shift to become carbon sources in the atmosphere.
As part of the funding, Senior Research Associate Xanthe Walker and Co-Principle Investigator and Biology Professor Michelle Mack received $850,000 to investigate the impacts of wildfire on long-term carbon locked away in Arctic soils.
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