ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Turbidity currents, akin to underwater avalanches, are rapid, destructive, sediment-rich bodies of water that flow down-slope. They destroy seafloor infrastructure and transport and store organic carbon (OC), impacting climate over long (>1,000 yr) timescales. Global climate is controlled by atmospheric carbon dioxide, so understanding the processes influencing OC transfer and burial between Earth’s major stores is crucial to predict and mitigate against future climate change. Currently turbidity currents are largely excluded from global carbon models, mainly due to challenges in measuring these processes directly, with no turbidity currents measured yet at high latitudes. Antarctica…
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