CARBOGEN: carbon cycling in Lake Geneva

The project in a nutshell

The motive of CARBOGEN is to address the carbon cycle of Lake Geneva through two objectives. The first one is to close the lake carbon budget by refining flux estimates accounting for the large temporal and spatial variability of the carbon processes and by identifying and quantifying the missing sources. The second aims at untying the mechanisms behind the long-term C variability, and therefore to quantify the human contribution to such changes. For that purpose, CARBOGEN relies on an integrated, process oriented perspective on the carbon cycle of Lake Geneva, combining field surveys, high-frequency monitoring, bioassays and modelling.

Subprojects:

• Short- and long-term drivers of the C-cycle of Lake Geneva: Pascal Perolo
• the contribution of inorganic processes to the C cycle of Lake Geneva: Nicolas Escoffier
• The sources and fate of organic carbon: Thibault Lambert

Team members

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