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

Principal Investigator

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  Pamela Templer

  College of Arts & Sciences
  Director, BU URBAN Program; Professor of Biology

Co-Principal Investigator

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  Stephen Decina

  2015 Early Stage Urban Research Award Recipient

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  Lucy Hutyra

  Urban Faculty Fellow, Professor and Chair of Earth & Environment

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 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.

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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