Tonya DelSontro

Tonya DelSontro’s research focus is to advance our understanding of how human activities and climate change alter aquatic carbon cycles and greenhouse gas budgets. She integrates field-based system analyses and experimental laboratory work to define and predict anthropogenic impacts on aquatic greenhouse dynamics from local and regional to global scales.

• 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

• Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage

• Climate Change and Geosciences

• Increasingly Complex Water Challenges

• Protection of Drinking Water from the Ravages of Climate Change

• 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

• 2019 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission

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

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

• 2014 Advanced Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation

• 2012 Outstanding Poster Award, European Geophysical Union

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

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

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

• 2001 ECCO Marine Science Scholarship, Stockton University, NJ

• 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

• Member, Water Institute

• EARTH 221 - Introductory Geochemistry
  • Taught in 2023, 2024
• EARTH 642 - Geoliminology
  • Taught in 2023, 2024, 2025
• SCI 250 - Environmental Geology
  • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2024

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• Please see Tonya DelSontro’s Google Scholar profile for a list of her peer-reviewed publications.

• 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)