Soil carbon is like a large reservoir that can keep carbon out of the atmosphere.
Soil carbon is like a large reservoir that can keep carbon out of the atmosphere. But how does it work? And how much carbon can the soil collect — especially in remote and extreme ecosystems like the Namib Desert in Africa?
Those are some of the questions that two Arizona State University researchers are trying to answer.
Becky Ball and Heather Throop are spending the summer in Namibia studying patterns of soil carbon in the hyper-arid desert and mentoring undergraduate students in field research.
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Beyond the sand dunes in the Namib Desert in Africa is the Gobabeb Namib Research Institute, where ASU professors are doing research this summer. Courtesy photo
