Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 11, 2005|Volume 34, Number 11

F&ES faculty member honored
for research on rivers

Pete Raymond, assistant professor of ecosystem ecology at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), has received the Estuarine Research Federation's 2005 Cronin Award for Early Achievement for significant career accomplishments.

Raymond received the award for his research on the role of rivers, estuaries and coastal systems in regional and global carbon budgets.

"The Cronin Award is awarded to an estuarine scientist who has shown great promise in his or her work that is carried out six years after obtaining a doctorate," said Linda Schaffner, president of the Estuarine Research Federation. "We are pleased to recognize and honor the breadth and interdisciplinary nature of Professor Raymond's research interests, the quality of his publications, his teaching accomplishments and the impact he has had on the field of coastal ecology."

Raymond's research examines how climate and land-use change affect the amount of carbon transferred to rivers from the continents. This work may eventually allow researchers to close the carbon budget in rivers, estuaries and the coastal ocean worldwide. He currently works on east coast and Arctic rivers and estuaries, and his work is funded by the Hudson River Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

Raymond has been involved in many studies designed to establish the role of rivers and estuaries in the carbon budget of coastal ecosystems. His doctoral and postdoctoral work on the York River in Virginia and the Parker River in Massachusetts were some of the first to use 14C, a radioactive isotope used for carbon dating, to determine the major flows of carbon in east coast estuaries.

Since arriving at Yale, he has been working to determine how old river carbon is and if there is a relationship between the age of carbon and its availability to riverine bacteria. He has also has been collaborating with researchers at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University to develop methods to accurately measure the air-water exchange of carbon dioxide in rivers and estuaries.

A Yale faculty member since 2002, Raymond has authored or co-authored 16 papers. A 2003 study -- conducted by Raymond and researchers at the Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Milbrook, New York, and published in Science -- suggested that inorganic carbon export from agricultural lands might offset some of the proposed carbon sequestration due to reforestation.

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