In early August 2014, the municipality of Toledo, OH (USA) issued a ‘do not drink’ advisory on their water supply directly affecting over 400,000 residential customers and hundreds of businesses (Wilson, 2014). This order was attributable to levels of microcystin, a potent liver toxin, which rose to 2.5 μg L⁻¹...
Shallow coastal waters serve an important role as long-term carbon (C) sinks because they capture terrestrial C
and retain internally produced C in wetlands and sediments. We show that tropical cyclones (TCs) can lead to
rapid CO₂ efflux from estuaries, driven by physical and biogeochemical perturbation of these coastal C...
From June 2009 to July 2010, we conducted 27 continuous-flow surveys of surface water CO₂ partial pressure (pCO₂) along the longitudinal axis of the Neuse River Estuary (NRE), North Carolina ranging from the tidal freshwater region to the polyhaline border with the Pamlico Sound. Lateral transects were also conducted at...