{"664980":{"#nid":"664980","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"FSU climate scientists receive Department of Energy funding to study greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPeatlands store a significant amount of the Earth\u0026rsquo;s carbon and have functioned as an important moderator of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for thousands of years. But as peatlands are lost to overextraction and affected by a warmer climate, the impact on these natural carbon scrubbers remains unclear.\u0026nbsp;A team of researchers from Florida State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Oak Ridge National Lab and the University of Arizona received a $3.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to investigate the status of carbon stored in peatlands, environments that are at risk of carbon release due to climate change. The Georgia Tech researchers include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joel-kostka\u0022\u003EJoel Kostka\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\/people\/dr-kostas-konstantinidis\u0022\u003EKostas Konstantinidis\u003C\/a\u003E, Richard C. Tucker Professor\u0026nbsp;in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EOcean Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E interdisciplinary graduate program; and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Caitlin-Petro\u0022\u003ECaitlin Petro\u003C\/a\u003E, research scientist,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/katherine-duchesneau\u0022\u003EKatherine Duchesneau\u003C\/a\u003E, doctoral student, both with the School of Biological Sciences. (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/joel-kostka-awarded-32-million-keep-digging-how-soils-and-plants-capture-carbon-and-keep-it-out\u0022\u003EHere\u0026#39;s\u003C\/a\u003E how the College of Sciences covered this story in October 2022.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-01-23 15:59:23","changed_gmt":"2023-01-23 15:59:23","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/news.fsu.edu\/news\/university-news\/2023\/01\/19\/fsu-climate-scientists-receive-department-of-energy-funding-to-study-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-peatlands\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"172469","name":"ocean science and engineering"},{"id":"20131","name":"Joel Kostka"},{"id":"12758","name":"Kostas Konstantinidis"},{"id":"185252","name":"Caitlin Petro"},{"id":"191947","name":"Katherine Duchesneau"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"175034","name":"peatlands"},{"id":"7508","name":"carbon dioxide"},{"id":"1702","name":"carbon capture"},{"id":"182970","name":"peat moss"},{"id":"182974","name":"peat bogs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}