YEAR-ROUND DETERMINATION OF METHANE (CH4) SOURCES AND SINKS IN ARCTIC LAKES USING CONTINUOUS AND AUTONOMOUS SAMPLING

• Main Author: McIntosh Marcek, Hadley
• Other Authors: Lapham, Laura L, Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, University of Maryland (College Park, Md.), Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Geochemistry; Chemical oceanography; Diffusion; Lakes; Mackenzie Delta; Methane; OsmoSampler; Radiocarbon; Arctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/26266; https://doi.org/10.13016/luol-c9hv

Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas and its concentration has been increasing in the atmosphere. While natural emissions from inland water bodies are known to be important, there is large uncertainty in the amount of methane released from lakes to the atmosphere, especially from Northern latitu...