Tonya DelSontro

• Greenhouse gas dynamics of inland waters

• Quantification of methane ebullition (bubbling)

• Upscaling aquatic greenhouse gas and carbon emissions

• Anthropogenic impacts on climatic feedback of inland waters

• Hydropower reservoirs in the global carbon cycle

• Lake sediment greenhouse gas dynamic

Professor DelSontro’s research interests lie in understanding how anthropogenic impacts, such as eutrophication, influence carbon cycles and integrated greenhouse gas (CO₂+CH₄+N₂O) budgets in lakes, rivers, reservoirs and wetlands/ponds. She aims to define the drivers of budget shifts and use them to better asses the vulnerability of other regions to human-induced changes in aquatic carbon dynamics. As the global warming potential of greenhouse gases vary, shifts in their emissions could lead to an exacerbation or an easing of climate change. Understanding our role in the climatic impact of inland waters will guide us in creating climate-friendly policies when managing our waterways. 

• SCI250: Environmental Geology
• Earth 221: Introduction to Geochemistry

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission (2019)

• Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, American Geophysical Union (2019)

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence, European Commission (2019)

• Advanced Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation (2014)

• Outstanding Poster Award, European Geophysical Union (2012)

• Preston Cloud Award, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara (2005)

• Valedictorian of Class of 2003, Stockton University, NJ (2003)

• Dean of Students Service Award, Stockton University, NJ (2003)

• ECCO Marine Science Scholarship, Stockton University, NJ (2001, 2002)

Member, Water Institute

2020: Working Group Moderator, Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) 21.5 Meeting

2019: Organizing Committee, GLEON 21 Meeting

2016-2019: Meetings Committee, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)

2017-2018: Scientific Organizing Committee, ASLO 2018 Aquatic Science meeting

2018: Organizing Committee, Physical Processes in Natural Waters (PPNW) 2018 meeting

Member of AGU, ASLO, GLEON, Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences

The following news stories featured Professor DelSontro’s past research

• 26 March 2019 – Sometimes it’s not good to be green
• 26 March 2018 – Green lakes could accelerate global warming
• 26 March 2018 – Fertilization drives global lake emissions of greenhouse gases
• 14 October 2010 – Reservoirs: A neglected source of methane emissions
• 12 October 2010 - Reservoirs could be secret climate sinners (in German)

2011 Ph.D., Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2006 M.Sc. Marine Science, Department of Earth Science, University of California Santa Barbara

2003 B.Sc. Marine Science, Stockton University, NJ