Establishment of New Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition Monitoring Network in the City of Boston

Associate Professors Pamela Templer and Lucy Hutyra seek to collect data on the nitrogen deposition levels both within and surrounding city limits by creating the first National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) monitoring system in a city in order to establish a mechanistic understanding of sources and transformation of emissions and deposition of nitrogen within the City of Boston to enable predictions of future atmospheric nitrogen deposition rates.

Student contributors:

Steve is a Ph.D. candidate in the BU Biogeosciences Program, studying the effects of urbanization on nitrogen and carbon cycling.

Publications:

• Templer, P, Hutyra, L.R., Decina, S., Gately, C., Getson, J., Reinmann, A.B., Short Gianotti, A.G. Soil respiration contributes significantly to urban carbon fluxes. Environmental Pollution 212: 433-439, 2016.

Presentations:

• “The Urban Carbon Cycle: Linkages between biology, fossil fuel emissions, and atmospheric observations.” National Institute of Standards (NIST), Gaitersberg and Cornell University and Volpe Center. May 2016.

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