In a new study in AGU Advances, Matthew Winnick describes how runoff laden with nitrogen from fertilizer is leading to increased nitrous oxide emissions in river systems. Read more in the UMass news release.
Monthly Archives: October 2021
New research on Arctic Rivers
In a pair of new papers, Michael Rawlins and colleagues describe new numerical model simulations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) loaded to rivers throughout the western Arctic and how flows of water and DOC are increasing in northwest Alaska. Read more in the UMass news release and the Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences and Environmental Research Letters journal articles.
UMass study: Coastal Northeast is warming faster than most other regions in the U.S.
In a paper recently published in Nature Climate Change, Ambarish Karmalkar, research assistant professor and investigator with UMass-Amherst’s Northeast Climate and Adaptation Science Center, described the accelerated warming and factors behind the trend. Read more in the UMass news release.