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Ms MARIE ARNAUD
Position: PhD
Department: Geography
University/Institute/Company: Leeds
About
My project aim is to investigate below-ground carbon cycling in mangroves. By combining field observations and laboratory experiments I will examine the environmental controls on below-ground production and decay. Additionally, my research will investigate the lateral export of inorganic carbon from soils to surface water bodies (rivers and the ocean), which may represent an important route for mangrove carbon loss. Field sites will be located in one of the largest area of restored mangrove in the world, the Mekong Delta in the south of Vietnam. Mangroves here were destroyed by a combination of “Agent Orange” defoliant and napalm during the Vietnam-USA war, and have gradually been replanted in the decades since. My research will be carried out in collaboration with the Vietnamese National University, Hanoi.
