Alison Hoyt

Tropical wetlands are a major but highly uncertain source of greenhouse gas emissions. In this project, we will launch a collaboration with the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon. We will conduct two field campaigns to the remote central Amazon to establish this partnership and collect preliminary data, which will lay the foundation for large-scale measurements of methane emissions from these understudied tropical ecosystems. Understanding the mechanism and transport pathway for methane escape is important for upscaling emissions across the Amazon region and for predicting how methane emissions are likely to respond to changing climatic conditions.

The Mamirauá Reserve is dedicated to sustainable development of the Brazilian Amazon and works closely with local communities to improve biodiversity conservation and the quality of life for Amazonian populations. We look forward to partnering with them in our research to better understand greenhouse gas emissions from tropical ecosystems.