PhD topic proposal

Long- and short term drivers of CO2 in Lake Geneva

Location. Université de Lausanne, Faculté des Géosciences et Sciences de l’Environnement, Switzerland

Specialty. Physical and biogeochemical limnology

Institute. IDYST, Institut de Dynamique des Surfaces Terrestres/ Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics

Supervision. Prof ME Perga (UNIL), Dr D Bouffard (EAWAG)

Funding. SNF funding (CARBOGEN project) for 4 years. The contract implies a 20% teaching duty.

Starting Date: April 1st 2018

Deadline for application. December 21st 2017

Keywords. lake, CO2, metabolism, hydrodynamics, ...

Fluvial ecosystems are an important element in the global carbon cycle metabolizing large amounts of terrigenous organic matter (tOM). This contributes to CO2 evasion fluxes that are under continuous reevaluation at the global scale. In contrast, research on the underlying processes is concentrated at the local ecosystem scale. This scale-gap seriously hampers process understanding across scales, limits upscaling accuracy, and reduces our scope of reaction strategies. The ERC Starting Grant Project FLUFLUX (“Fluvial Meta-Ecosystem Functioning: Unravelling Regional Ecological ...

Fluvial ecosystems are an important element in the global carbon cycle metabolizing large amounts of terrigenous organic matter (tOM). This contributes to CO2 evasion fluxes that are under continuous reevaluation at the global scale. In contrast, research on the underlying processes is concentrated at the local ecosystem scale. This scale-gap seriously hampers process understanding across scales, limits upscaling accuracy, and reduces our scope of reaction strategies. The ERC Starting Grant Project FLUFLUX (“Fluvial Meta-Ecosystem Functioning: Unravelling Regional Ecological ...