The first EWP seminar of the Spring quarter will feature our own David Butman this Thursday. He will talk about water and carbon cycling across the Boreal Arctic.

When/where: Thursday (3/30), 3:30. Bag (Bagley Hall) 154.

Zoom:  https://washington.zoom.us/j/98585582078

Schedule and recordings: https://depts.washington.edu/watersem/

Title: Linking Land and Water Carbon Cycling across the Boreal Arctic

Abstract: Climate change continues to impact northern latitudes disproportionately.  Arctic amplification has led to profound changes in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems that include the thawing of permafrost, vast areas of subsidence, the progression of shrubs and woody plants moving northward, and the redistribution of surface waters.  Fundamental to all of these effects is the transfer and flow of carbon.  Here I will present a decade of work that has measured and mapped the dynamics of carbon within streams, rivers, and lakes in Alaska and Northern Canada.  The research spans from site-level applications of stable and radio-isotopes that inform on recent biological processes, to broad uses of satellite data that track trends in water quality through time.  The work represents strong national and international collaborations as part of the NASA Arctic and Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE).

Bio: Dr. David Butman, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Jack Corkery and George Corkery Jr. Endowed Professor in Forest Sciences and Associate Professor in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. He received his PhD in Forestry and Environmental Sciences and a masters in Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies from Connecticut College. Dr. Butman studies the influence of humans and climate on carbon cycling at the intersection of terrestrial and aquatic systems. He received the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, The Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research Scholarship, The Woods Hole Oceonographic Institution Research Initiative Fellowship, and was invited as a Climate Change Scholar at the DISCCRS VII symposium in 2012.