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Project Code [2006-PhD-AQ-4]

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Project title

Total Carbon Balance of a Blanket Peat Catchment

Primary Funding Agency

Environmental Protection Agency

Co-Funding Organisation(s)

n/a

Lead Organisation

University College Cork (UCC)

Lead Applicant

Gerard Kiely

Project Abstract

An assessment of the carbon sink source potential of peatlands should include the losses of carbon in streamwater in addition to the biosphere-atmosphere exchange of CO2 and CH4. The aim of the project is to determine the total carbon balance of a blanket peatland. This will be achieved by determining CO2 exchange using eddy covariance field measurements CH4 emissions using static chambers and dissolved organic carbon input in rainfall and loss in streamwater. A model will be developed to assess the effect of changing climate scenarios on the carbon balance of a pristine peatland in the west of Ireland.

Grant Approved

�90,000.00

Research Hub

Climate Change

Research Theme

Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Sinks, and Management Systems

Start Date

14/08/2006

Initial Projected Completion Date

14/10/2013