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logistics: Carey couldn’t potentially feeds toxic algal
send someone to collect blooms, harms freshwater oxygen to break them have to do everything of the carbon, nitrogen,
data every single day for wildlife, and compromises down. we can to protect lakes and phosphorus sink in
seven summers. reservoirs as drinking water from receiving even more freshwater” 25 May 202,
sources – but the nutrients Knowing the severity of phosphorus, fertilizers, and Global Change Biology.
So the team fed the data moved downstream, Carey this impact should move sediments,” she said. “I’m
it had collected into a explained. Herein lies the us to act on land use, hoping we can light a fire DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16228
model Carey describes vicious cycle of anoxia Carey believes. “Our study with folks. These processes
as a “video game of a begetting anoxia: As more reveals this mechanism are happening that we
lake,” which simulated nutrients reach other lakes, by which upstream lakes didn’t even know about.”
those important but tricky rivers, and streams, each are harming downstream
interactions. “Underlying waterbody’s microbes will lakes, and if this is going on Reference: “Anoxia
the video game were consume more and more broadly, then we basically decreases the magnitude
a bunch of equations
we could manipulate
to understand which
processes were most WE'D LIKE TO BE YOUR
important when the
reservoir had low versus SOLUTION PARTNER FOR
high oxygen levels,” she THE HEATING PROCESSES
said.
IN YOUR LABORATORY.
The model also enabled
the team to get data Protherm is with you to offer solutions
every hour. “That allowed for your special heat treatment
us to be able to really requirements and analyses.
understand how quickly the
lake responded to changes
in oxygen,” Carey said.

A ROLE REVERSAL

The researchers observed
huge changes to the
concentrations of nutrients
released from bottom
waters with anoxia,
including a six-fold increase >Atmosphere Controlled furnaces up to 2.000°C
in nitrogen export. Over >Ovens up to 650°C
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a net sink of phosphorus >Split Furnaces and CVD systems up to 1.500°C
and carbon to a net >Rotary Furnaces up to 1.600°C
source of both nutrients to >Vacuum Furnaces up to 1.500°C and 10-3 Torr
>And more…
downstream water bodies.

“What we saw was that the
lake was unable to do its
important job of serving
as this sink of carbon,
nitrogen, and phosphorus,
as it would have done if
there was oxygen there,”
Carey said. “The changes
were really remarkable for
all three of the elements
individually, but we saw
that in aggregate, the
lake’s ability to serve
as this sink was really RTR Series PLF Series PVAC Series ACF Series 2.000°C
changing.” Rotary Furnaces Chamber Furnaces Vacuum Furnaces Atmosphere Controlled
Furnaces
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