Stormwater and fire as sources of black carbon nanoparticles to Lake Tahoe
Emitted to the atmosphere through fire and fossil fuel combustion, refractory black carbon nanoparticles (rBC) impact human health, climate, and the carbon cycle. Eventually these particles enter aquatic environments, where they may affect the fate of other pollutants. While ubiquitous, the particle...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Published: |
American Chemical Society
2011
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49139 |
| _version_ | 1848758173811343360 |
|---|---|
| author | Bisiaux, M. Edwards, Peter Heyvaert, A. Thomas, J. Fitzgerald, B. Susfalk, R. Schladow, G. Thaw, M. |
| author_facet | Bisiaux, M. Edwards, Peter Heyvaert, A. Thomas, J. Fitzgerald, B. Susfalk, R. Schladow, G. Thaw, M. |
| author_sort | Bisiaux, M. |
| building | Curtin Institutional Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | Emitted to the atmosphere through fire and fossil fuel combustion, refractory black carbon nanoparticles (rBC) impact human health, climate, and the carbon cycle. Eventually these particles enter aquatic environments, where they may affect the fate of other pollutants. While ubiquitous, the particles are still poorly characterized in freshwater systems. Here we present the results of a study determining rBC in waters of the Lake Tahoe watershed in the western United States from 2007 to 2009. The study period spanned a large fire within the Tahoe basin, seasonal snowmelt, and a number of storm events, which resulted in pulses of urban runo# into the lake with rBCconcentrations up to 4 orders of magnitude higher than midlake concentrations. The results show that rBC pulses from both the fire and urban runoff were rapidly attenuated suggesting unexpectedaggregation or degradation of the particles. We find that those processes prevent rBC concentrations from building up in the clear and oligotrophic Lake Tahoe. This rapid removal of rBC soon after entry into the lake has implications for the transport of rBC in the global aquatic environment and the flux of rBC from continents to the global ocean. |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-14T09:39:47Z |
| format | Journal Article |
| id | curtin-20.500.11937-49139 |
| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
| institution_category | Local University |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-14T09:39:47Z |
| publishDate | 2011 |
| publisher | American Chemical Society |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-491392024-05-21T04:32:23Z Stormwater and fire as sources of black carbon nanoparticles to Lake Tahoe Bisiaux, M. Edwards, Peter Heyvaert, A. Thomas, J. Fitzgerald, B. Susfalk, R. Schladow, G. Thaw, M. black carbon fire Lake Tahoe stormwater Emitted to the atmosphere through fire and fossil fuel combustion, refractory black carbon nanoparticles (rBC) impact human health, climate, and the carbon cycle. Eventually these particles enter aquatic environments, where they may affect the fate of other pollutants. While ubiquitous, the particles are still poorly characterized in freshwater systems. Here we present the results of a study determining rBC in waters of the Lake Tahoe watershed in the western United States from 2007 to 2009. The study period spanned a large fire within the Tahoe basin, seasonal snowmelt, and a number of storm events, which resulted in pulses of urban runo# into the lake with rBCconcentrations up to 4 orders of magnitude higher than midlake concentrations. The results show that rBC pulses from both the fire and urban runoff were rapidly attenuated suggesting unexpectedaggregation or degradation of the particles. We find that those processes prevent rBC concentrations from building up in the clear and oligotrophic Lake Tahoe. This rapid removal of rBC soon after entry into the lake has implications for the transport of rBC in the global aquatic environment and the flux of rBC from continents to the global ocean. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49139 10.1021/es103819v American Chemical Society fulltext |
| spellingShingle | black carbon fire Lake Tahoe stormwater Bisiaux, M. Edwards, Peter Heyvaert, A. Thomas, J. Fitzgerald, B. Susfalk, R. Schladow, G. Thaw, M. Stormwater and fire as sources of black carbon nanoparticles to Lake Tahoe |
| title | Stormwater and fire as sources of black carbon nanoparticles to Lake Tahoe |
| title_full | Stormwater and fire as sources of black carbon nanoparticles to Lake Tahoe |
| title_fullStr | Stormwater and fire as sources of black carbon nanoparticles to Lake Tahoe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stormwater and fire as sources of black carbon nanoparticles to Lake Tahoe |
| title_short | Stormwater and fire as sources of black carbon nanoparticles to Lake Tahoe |
| title_sort | stormwater and fire as sources of black carbon nanoparticles to lake tahoe |
| topic | black carbon fire Lake Tahoe stormwater |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49139 |