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The Land to Ocean Aquatic Continuum of Carbon research project (LOAC) program addresses two key challenges around carbon in freshwater-marine systems.

  1. More than half of all carbon taken in by land is exported to freshwater systems, BUT two-thirds of this carbon (globally) is lost to the atmosphere, buried or delivered to the coastal ocean.

  2. Increased carbon in the oceans is causing Ocean acidification, which has poorly understood impacts on ecosystem health.

The LOAC project aims to:

  • Reduce uncertainty on key carbon cycle processes from source to sea.

  • Assess the impacts of water development projects on carbon cycling

  • Quantify downstream impacts of river inflow on coastal ocean greenhouse gas (GHG) budgets and ecosystem health.

The LOAC project addresses SDG's 6, 13 (Climate Action), 14 (Life Below Water), 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).

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Title Land to Ocean Aquatic Continuum of Carbon Research Program
Research Program Name
Keyword Vocabulary Polar Data Catalogue
Keyword Vocabulary URL https://www.polardata.ca/pdcinput/public/keywordlibrary
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Theme Freshwater
Marine
Status Complete
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Metadata Creation Date 2024
Publisher CanWIN
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Project Area Manitoba Great Lakes
Spatial regions Manitoba Great Lakes
Spatial extent West Bound Longitude
Spatial extent East Bound Longitude
Spatial extent South Bound Latitude
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Project Start Date 2017-05-31
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Project Contributors
Principal Investigators
Principal Investigators 1
Principal Investigator Name
Stainton, Mike
Type of Name
Personal
Principal Investigator Email
staintonm@gmail.com
Principal Investigator Affiliation
Freshwater Institute - Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Co-Investigators
Co-Investigators 1
Co-Investigator Name
Papakyriakou, Tim
Co-Investigator Role
Project Manager
Co-Investigator Email
Tim.Papakyriakou@umanitoba.ca
Co-Investigator Affiliation
Centre for Earth Observation Science - University of Manitoba
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Project Data Curator CanWIN
Project Data Curator email portalco@umanitoba.ca
Project Data Curator Affiliation Centre for Earth Observation Science - University of Manitoba
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Awards 1
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NSERC Discovery Grant Program
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National Sciences and Engineering Research Council
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