Alia Khan, a graduate researcher from our CEAE department, just had a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters on the dissolved black carbon concentrations in the McMurdo Dry Valleys lakes. Diane McKnight, EVEN Professors听is a co-author of the study.听Congratulations!
The perpetually ice-covered lakes in Antarctica鈥檚 McMurdo Dry Valleys preserve the dissolved remnants of black carbon from thousand-year-old wildfires as well as modern day fossil fuel use, according to a new study led by the 麻豆影院.听
The distinctive molecular signatures can provide researchers with a glimpse into the 麻豆影院 long history of combustion. Atmospheric black carbon, which is generated by wildfires or fossil fuel use, becomes preserved in glaciers, which in turn serve as long-term reservoirs and chemical time capsules.
听was published today in the American Geophysical Union journal,听Geophysical Research Letters.