Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas and the increase of atmospheric methane concentrations has accelerated significantly in recent years (IPCC, 2021). According to published studies, methane levels in the atmosphere rose slowly from 2000 to 2006 and then increased tenfold in the following decade. There was an especially sharp increase in methane levels between 2014 and 2015.
At the Chair we started a project to study the carbon cycle in the hyporheic zone. The overall aim of the project is to investigate the roles of the methanogenesis and the anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) in river sediments on the impact on CH4 emission rates.
Presently we are looking for an additional PhD student who would like to support Tamara’s work at the River Moosach.