LOCATE is a multi-disciplinary project that will undertake the first ever coordinated sampling of the major rivers in Great Britain. This will help scientists answer questions about the long-term fate of organic carbon held in soil over the next fifty to one hundred years by establishing how much carbon from soils is getting into rivers and estuaries and determining what is happening to it.

The LOCATE vision is that in ten years the key processes relevant to decomposition of terrigenous Carbon are well represented in models, particularly for Carbon stored in boreal peatlands.

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Website: https://locate.ac.uk

PI: Dr Dan Mayor
Email: dan.mayor at noc.ac.uk

Dates
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Funding

NERC – National Capability

Aim

Overarching objectives

  1. To quantify the fate of terrigeneous organic matter from soils to the ocean, with particular focus on estuaries and coastal waters.
  2. To quantify and understand the loss processes in estuarine environments.
  3. To build a new model of terrigeneous organic matter cycling valid in marine and fresh waters, and use it to predict the future evolution of the land ocean carbon flux.