Droevendaalsesteeg 10
6708 PB Wageningen
The Netherlands
About
I have a background in Arctic coastal erosion and during my PhD, I studied the transport of terrestrial organic carbon along the Canadian Beaufort Sea. My work combined field campaigns and laboratory techniques, including hydrodynamic fractionation, to trace how carbon moves through coastal systems. As a postdoctoral researcher in the CLIMET project I will be working on various lakes, drivers of methane and lake limnology in Greenland.
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Projects
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CLIMET: Climate feedbacks and methane cycling in Arctic lakes: enzymes to atmosphere
Arctic lakes are important hotspots for the microbially- mediated production and cycling of methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas. The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the global average, changing polar ecosystems and with it the potential for positive or negative climate feedback effects. Rising temperatures are changing terrestrial vegetation cover, melting permafrost soils, and increasing glacial discharge from ice caps and ice sheets. Consequently, CLIMET focuses on two potential drivers of lake CH4 cycling in West Greenland that are changing rapidly as Arctic ecosystems change.