Waquoit Salt Marsh N2O fluxes

So some big news - I started my new postdoc position at the Ecosystems Center two weeks ago! I will be working with Jim Tang in Harvard Forest, and likely again at the Arctic LTER in Toolik Lake, AK, but the exact details of my research are in development. This position at MBL allows me a lot of freedom to develop approaches and research foci, so I will be spending the winter months working on that before the growing season begins. My ideas now are to scale the work I've done on leaf-level respiratory fluxes and their environmental controls, and see how that plays out at the canopy level using eddy-covariance and multi-spectral imaging, and see how these linkages hold and/or differ across different periods of leaf development through the growing season. 

Part of being a lab-member is helping out with research other than your own, which is a great way to learn new methods and view different field sites. Yesterday I went to Waquoit Salt Marsh on Cape Cod with Xuechu Chen, a visiting professor from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, to measure N2O fluxes after NO3- additions. While the landscape was gorgeous, the temperatures with windchill were below freezing, making measurements difficult. After a few measurements of minimal fluxes, Xuechu joked that "We can conclude now that N2O fluxes are temperature dependent!".