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Niels Crosley Munksgaard Tracing water sources and greenhouse gases using field-based stable isotope techniques Niels Crosley Munksgaard

Overview: 2. Oxygen and Hydrogen isotopes in water 1. Stable isotopes What are they? How do we measure them? 2. Oxygen and Hydrogen isotopes in water Tracing the hydrological cycle Agricultural water use 3. Carbon isotopes in Carbon Dioxide and Methane Tracing greenhouse gas emissions

Stable isotopes Physical and chemical properties vary slightly between isotopes Example: H218O has lower vapour pressure than H216O Isotopes ‘fractionate’ between different compounds or physical forms Example: water vapour has a lower 18O/16O ratio than liquid water Example: CO2 respired from grasses and trees have different 13C/12C ratios H2O and CO2 carry isotopic ‘fingerprints’ and can be traced from their source

Isotope analysis The future: Laser spectroscopy Mobile, field capable Simple operation Continuous analysis Advantage: Greater temporal and spatial resolution at reduced cost The past: Laboratory bound mass spectrometry Specialist staff required Discrete samples only

Field-based isotope measurements

Overview: 2. Oxygen and Hydrogen isotopes in water 1. Stable isotopes What are they? How do we measure them? 2. Oxygen and Hydrogen isotopes in water Tracing the hydrological cycle Agricultural water use 3. Carbon isotopes in Carbon Dioxide and Methane Tracing greenhouse gas emissions

Moisture Source  Rainfall  Soil water  Groundwater  Rivers Tracing water sources Moisture Source  Rainfall  Soil water  Groundwater  Rivers  Vegetation

O- and H-isotopes in the water cycle

Annual O-isotope composition of precipitation Meteo cycle Annual O-isotope composition of precipitation

…but event-based and seasonal variations in O- and H-isotope composition of rainfall are large  discrete events can be traced in the hydrological cycle !

Hydrograph separation of storm flow

Plant transpired H2O has δ18O ≈ δ18O soil H2O Soil evaporated H2O has δ18O < δ18O soil H2O (liquid-vapour fractionation) Air inlet tower Isotope analyser

Overview: 2. Oxygen and Hydrogen isotopes in water 1. Stable isotopes What are they? How do we measure them? 2. Oxygen and Hydrogen isotopes in water Tracing the hydrological cycle Agricultural water use 3. Carbon isotopes in Carbon Dioxide and Methane Tracing greenhouse gas emissions

Mobile detection of methane using an isotope spectrometer Greenhouse gasses Gas Concentration (ppm) Warming factor (100 yr) Warming contribution CO2 ≈400 1 ≈9-26% CH4 ≈2 25 ≈4-9% N2O ≈0.3 298 ?

Measurement of 13C/12C in CH4 helps distinguish coal seam and microbial (farming) gas sources

Accounting for natural emissions: soil and plant respiration (CO2) Soil respiration Leaf respiration

CO2 emissions from two forest systems measured using a mobile isotope spectrometer interfaced with GPS CO2 ppm d13C CO2 Eucalypt Eucalypt Rainforest Rainforest Rainforest / Eucalyptus transition, 40 km forest track (2 hours), continuous measurement integrated at 2 min intervals

Conclusions - relevance to remote area monitoring: Laser spectroscopy allows field-based isotope analysis of water and greenhouse gasses High temporal and spatial resolution - reactive sampling/analysis - low cost Highly versatile instruments – can interface with project-specific sampling modules CDU’s present capabilities in field-based stable isotope analyses: 1. Continuous analysis of 2H/1H and 18O/16O in water vapour, rainfall, river water, seawater… 2. Continuous analysis of 13C/12C isotope ratio in CO2 – including analysis of CO2 and CH4 concentration