{"id":311,"date":"2020-12-16T06:58:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T06:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themegrilldemos.com\/accelerate\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:44:08","slug":"sample-page-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/xcomas\/sample-page-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Current projects in our lab include: a) peatland studies (focusing on carbon stocks and fluxes) across latitudinal gradients in the US from the Florida Everglades to Alaska, including boreal systems in Maine and Minnesota; b) studies that explore the critical zone architecture, and the spatial and temporal variability in moisture content distribution in soils and trees in Puerto Rico (including the Luquillo LTER); or c) the characterization of dissolution features and sinkholes in karst environments in a variety of locations (including Florida and other international locations such as Spain).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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a) Peatland studies<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Location of current and past peatland geophysics projects.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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a1) Carbon stocks: critical zone architecture in peatlands<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Ground-penetrating radar surveys for estimating peat thickness in boreal peatlands in Maine. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

a2) Carbon fluxes: spatial and temporal variability of biogenic gases in peat soils<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Spatial and temporal variability in gas content across peat soils At WCA-1 in the Everglades inferred from ground-based GPR measurements.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Spatial and temporal variability in gas content across peat soils at WCA-2 in the Everglades inferred from airborne (drone-based) GPR measurements. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

a3) Effects of salinity for peat stability: implications for peat collapse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Changes in electrical conductivity of peat soils inferred from terrain conductivity measurements and its correspondence with vegetation gradients. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

b) Critical zone geophysics in Puerto Rico<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

b1) Bedrock\/regolith architecture at the Rio Icacos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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b2) Spatial and temporal distribution of moisture content in soils of the LTER in Luquillo (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Changes in moisture content distribution in soils inferred from ground-penetrating radar (GPR) measurements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

b3) Spatial and temporal distribution of moisture content in trees of the LTER in Luquillo (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Moisture content distribution in trees at 3 different sites in the Luquillo LTER using opne-dimensional (1D) models, and 2D tomographical<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

c) Dissolution features and sinkoles in karst environments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

c1) Sinkhole characterization<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Surveying depressional wetlands associated with sinkholes in the Disney Wilderness Preserve (DWP) in central Florida.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Geophysical surveys using GPR and shallow seismic over depressional wetlands and inferred cover sagging sinkholes (DWP, Florida). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

c2) Subsurface characterization of other karst features: tufa mounds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Subsurface characterization of the internal structure of a tufa mound in Basturs (Spain) using GPR. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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