Geography Department Research Seminar, Dr Mike Peacock (University of Liverpool)
| Dates: | 6 November 2024 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Drop-in session |
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| Organiser: | School of Environment, Education and Development |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Dr Mike Peacock |
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'Small artificial waterbodies as hotspots of carbon and greenhouse gas cycling
Abstract:
Ditches and ponds are small artificial waterbodies that are constructed for a variety of purposes and functions (e.g. land drainage, transport, biodiversity provision, aquaculture, nutrient retention, etc). They are globally numerous and found across a range of climate zones and land covers, and cumulatively occupy large surface areas. Future urban growth and intensified agricultural drainage will likely further increase the number of these waterbodies. These small waterbodies deliver numerous ecosystem services, of which carbon © burial is a potentially important natural climate solution. Balanced against this carbon burial, they also emit large amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs), particularly methane. Thus, their full contribution to climatic warming remains unknown. In this talk I will give an overview of C and GHG cycling in ditches and ponds, the potential global importance of these processes, and their policy implications.
Speaker
Dr Mike Peacock
Role: Lecturer Geography and Planning
Organisation: The University of Liverpool
Biography: Dr. Mike Peacock is an environmental scientist who researches carbon, nutrient and greenhouse gas dynamics in wetlands and freshwaters. He obtained his PhD from Bangor University in 2013 which focused on peatland rewetting and water chemistry, greenhouse gases and hydrology. He is a Lecturer in Biogeochemical Cycles at the University of Liverpool and also holds a position as a Researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He is an IPCC-contributing author and currently leads the four-year Formas-funded project: “Land Use Effects on Aquatic Fluxes of Greenhouse Gases from Ponds and Ditches (LEAF-PAD)
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