Stacey L. Felgate

I am a land-ocean biogeochemist, working across fresh and marine environments to answer questions about the coastal carbon cycle. Currently, I am working across 3 multi-institute, large-scale projects: (1) RINGO, an EU H2020 funded project to provide guidance to ICOS on the ideal and minimum requirements for pan-European monitoring of land-ocean carbon fluxes; (2) FIREBLANKET, a NERC funded project to understand the effects of drought and wildfire on the export and processing of DOC in Europe's largest peatbog (the Halladale, Scotland); and (3) CME Belize, an FCO funded project working to safeguard Belize's sustainable marine economy by (a) quantifying the influence of upstream land use change on downstream water quality and (b) producing Belize's first measurement based blue carbon inventory for seagrass. I am also undertaking a PhD which focusses on understanding the removal processes associated with land-ocean DOC export, utilising optode technology and bespoke 'natural light' incubators to investigate the influence of organic matter quality on bio- and photo-degredation.