Tonya DelSontro, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Nelson Mandela -
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Linkhorst, A., Hiller, C., DelSontro, T., Azevedo, G.M., Barros, N., Mendonca, R., Sobek, S. 2020. Comparing methane ebullition variability across space and time in a Brazilian reservoir. Limnology & Oceanography, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11410.
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Beaulieu, J.J.*, DelSontro, T*., Downing, J.A*. 2019. Eutrophication will increase methane emissions from lakes and impoundments during the 21st century. Nature Communications, 10:1375. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09100-5
*Equal contributions
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DelSontro, T., Beaulieu, JJ, Downing, JA. (2018) Greenhouse gas emissions from lakes and impoundments: upscaling in the face of global change. Limnology and Oceanography Letters: https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10073
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DelSontro, T., del Giorgio, PA., Prairie, YT. (2017) What methane paradox? The interaction between physical transport and biological processes explains the spatial distribution of methane within and across lakes. Ecosystems: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-017-0205-1
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Prairie, Y.T., Alm, J., Beaulieu, J., Barros, N., Battin, T., Cole, J., del Giorgio, P., DelSontro, T., Guerin, F., Harby, A., Mercier-Blais, S., Serca, D., Sobek, S., Vachon, D. (2017) Greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater reservoirs: what does the atmosphere see? Ecosystems: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-017-0198-9.
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Aben, R.C.H., Barros, N., van Donk, E., Frenken, T., Hilt, S., Kazanjian, G., Lamers, L.P.M., Peeters, E.T.H.M., Roelofs, J.G.M., de Senerpont Domis, L.N., Stephan, S., Velthuis, M., Van de Waal, D.B., Wik, M., Wilkinson, J., DelSontro, T., Kosten, S. (2017) Cross continental increase in methane ebullition under climate change. Nature Communications, 8(1): 1682.
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DelSontro, T., Boutet, L., St Pierre, A., del Giorgio, P.A., and Prairie, Y.T. (2016) Methane ebullition and diffusion from northern ponds and lakes regulated by the interaction between temperature and system productivity. Limnology and Oceanography, 61: S62-S77.
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DelSontro, T., Perez, K.K., Sollberger, S., Wehrli, B. (2016) Methane dynamics downstream of a temperate run-of-the-river reservoir. Limnology and Oceanography, 61: S62-S77.
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Deemer, B.R., Harrison, J.A., Li, S., Beaulieu, J.J., DelSontro, T., Barros, N., Neto, J., Powers, S., dos Santos, M., Vonk, J. (2016) Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Reservoir Water Surfaces: A New Global Synthesis. Bioscience, 66(11): 949-964.
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DelSontro, T., McGinnis, D.F., Wehrli, B., Ostrovsky, I. (2015) Size does matter: Importance of large bubbles and small-scale hot spots for methane transport. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(3): 1268–1276.
Zhao, Y., Sherman, B., Ford, P., Demarty, M., DelSontro, T., Harby, A. & Wu, B. (2015) A comparison of methods for the measurement of CO2 and CH4 emissions from surface water reservoirs: Results from an international workshop held at Three Gorges Dam, June 2012. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 13(1), 15-29.
Sollberger, S., Corella, J.P., Girardclos, S., Randlett, M.E., Schubert, C.J., Senn, D.B., Wehrli, B., DelSontro, T.** (2014) Influence of subaquatic canyons on benthic methane fluxes in the Rhone Delta (Lake Geneva). Aquatic Sciences, 76 (Suppl 1): S89-S101.
**Senior author
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Maeck, A., DelSontro, T., McGinnis, D., Fischer, H., Flury, S., Schmidt, M., Fietzek, P., Lorke, A. (2013) Sediment trapping by dams creates methane emission hotspots. Environmental Science & Technology, 47(15): 8130-8137.
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Sobek, S., DelSontro, T., Wongfun, N., Wehrli, B. (2012) Extreme organic carbon burial fuels intense methane bubbling in a temperatre reservoir. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L01401.
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DelSontro, T., Kunz, M.J., Kempter, T., Wüest, A., Wehrli, B., Senn. D.B. (2011) Spatial heterogeneity of methane ebullition in a large tropical reservoir. Environmental Science & Technology, 45: 9866-9873.
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DelSontro, T., McGinnis, D.F., Sobek, S., Ostrovsky, I., Wehrli, B. (2010) Extreme methane emissions from a Swiss hydropower reservoir: Contribution from bubbling sediments. Environmental Science & Technology, 44: 2419-2425.