- Title:
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Mobile Lab Fills Greenhouse: Gas knowledge gap
- Date:
- March 2010
- Organisations
- BCRC
- Authors:
- Fire Note 56: This project led to the construction of a groundbreaking Rapid Deployment Greenhouse Gas Laboratory, which can work independently and continuously for several days in remote areas.
Overview
This research project resulted in the design and construction of a groundbreaking Rapid Deployment Greenhouse Gas Laboratory (RDGG-Lab) for use in remote locations, which is capable of working independently and continuously for several days, measuring multiple gases simultaneously. The RDGG-Lab has been deployed in alpine, sub-alpine and montane ecosystems in Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) over the past three years, measuring fluxes of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrogen dioxide in burnt and unburnt study sites, resulting in highly significant insights that will be invaluable for future modelling scenarios, and for general knowledge of the impact of fire on greenhouse gases in soils. In this Fire Note, the discussion of results is limited to methane fluxes to and from soils under snowgum (Eucalyptus pauciflora spp. niphophylla) woodland on the Snowy Plains in NSW. The research there is focused on a grazing x fire interaction study, set up with additional funding from the Federal Government to the Bushfire CRC.
