Collaborative Research: Long-term Carbon Storage Shifts in High-latitude Peatlands with Paleoclimate Change: Linking Peatland Modeling with Paleoecology and Paleohydrology

SPONSOR:

National Science Foundation (NSF)

FUNDED AMOUNT:

$403,656

RESEARCH TEAM:

Steve Frolking

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS:

University of New Hampshire

WEBSITE:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1022979&HistoricalAwards=false

PUBLICATIONS:

Peteet, D.M., J. Nichols, and D.H. Mann, 2019: Holocene vegetation, climate, and carbon history on western Kodiak Island, Alaska. Front. Earth Sci., 7, 61, doi:10.3389/feart.2019.00061.

Treat, C.C., T. Kleinen, N. Broothaerts, A.S. Dalton, R. Dommain, T.A. Douglas, J.Z. Drexler, S.A. Finkelstein, G. Grosse, G. Hope, J. Hutchings, M.C. Jones, P. Kuhry, T. Lacourse, O. Lähteenoja, J. Loisel, B. Notebaert, R.J. Payne, D.M. Peteet, A.B.K. Sannel, J.M. Stelling, J. Strauss, G.T. Swindles, J. Talbot, C. Tarnocai, G. Verstraeten, C.J. Williams, Z. Xia, Z. Yu, M. Väliranta, M. Hättestrand, H. Alexanderson, and V. Brovkin, 2019: Widespread global peatland establishment and persistence over the last 130,000 y. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 116, no. 11, 4822-4827, doi:10.1073/pnas.1813305116.

Peteet, D.M., 2018: The importance of understanding the Last Glacial Maximum for climate change. In Our Warming Planet: Topics in Climate Dynamics. C. Rosenzweig, D. Rind, A. Lacis, and D. Manley, Eds., Lectures in Climate Change: Volume 1. World Scientific, pp. 331-348, doi:10.1142/9789813148796_0016.

Windham-Myers, L., W.-J. Cai, S.R. Alin, A. Andersson, J. Crosswell, K.H. Dunton, J.M. Hernandez-Ayon, M. Herrmann, A.L. Hinson, C.S. Hopkinson, J. Howard, X. Hu, S.H. Knox, K. Kroeger, D. Lagomasino, P. Megonigal, R.G. Najjar, M.-L. Paulsen, D. Peteet, E. Pidgeon, K.V.R. Schäfer, M. Tzortziou, Z.A. Wang, and E.B. Watson, 2018: Chapter 15: Tidal wetlands and estuaries. In Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report. N. Cavallaro, G. Shrestha, R. Birdsey, M.A. Mayes, R.G. Najjar, S.C. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, and Z. Zhu, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, pp. 596-648, doi:10.7930/SOCCR2.2018.Ch15.

Nichols, J.E., D.M. Peteet, S. Frolking, and J. Karavias, 2017: A probabilistic method of assessing carbon accumulation rate at Imnavait Creek Peatland, Arctic Long Term Ecological Research Station, Alaska. J. Quat. Sci., 32, no. 5, 579-586, doi:10.1002/jqs.2952.

KEYWORDS

paleoclimate hydrology peatland models carbon storage climate change 14c dating ocean and climate physics