RIEL seminar series
Carbon and water adventures in north Australia
| Presenter | Professor Lindsay Hutley | |
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| Contact person | E: RIEL.outreach@cdu.edu.au | |
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Savanna Room, Yellow Building 1, Level 2, Room 48 at CDU Casuarina campus And online via Zoom All times are in ACST |
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| Open to | Public | |
Professor Lindsay Hutley is Professor of Environmental Science at the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL) at Charles Darwin University (CDU).
With climate change and increasing land use pressures there is more and more demand for knowledge of carbon dynamics and water use as well as water resource management. At a global scale, ecosystems on land absorb around 30% of the carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere by human activities, and there is growing recognition that coastal communities also play a role.
However, climate change may be weakening their capacity to offset global emissions, and we need knowledge of these processes in north Australia. To assess this, we need information on rates of carbon sequestration across natural and agricultural landscapes. Equally importantly, we need information on pathways of carbon loss, be it natural or human-induced.
The seminar ‘Carbon and water adventures in north Australia’ will touch on these issues, as well as research happening in these discipline areas at RIEL.
Lindsay’s research is focused on providing better understanding of the biophysical environment of tropical land and water systems. He has expertise in ecology, ecophysiology and ecohydrological processes aimed at an increased understanding of ecosystem function that informs landscape-scale management and resource usage.
He has extensive experience in the measurement of surface fluxes of mass (carbon, water) and energy in tropical ecosystems using eddy covariance systems. This experience is complimented by his expertise in savanna ecology, ecohydrology, use of stable isotopes and soil biology.
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