A new paper in Limnology and Oceanography, co-authored by Ecohydrology Research Group members Philippe Van Cappellen, Fereidoun Rezanezhad, and Tatjana Milojevic assess the carbon release and transformation from coastal peat deposits controlled by submarine groundwater discharge. This study illustrates the strong dependence of carbon cycling in shallow coastal areas with submerged peat deposits on the flow and mixing dynamics within the subterranean estuary.
This paper is published as part of collaborations between the Ecohydrology Research Group and Baltic TRANSCOAST program at Rostock University in Germany. Matthias Kreuzburg, a PhD student from Rostock University and the study's lead author, visited the Ecohydrology Group in Fall 2018 and conducted a series of column experiments and the results published in this paper are based on his experiments during his stay in Waterloo. The paper can be accessed here.