BREATHE
Staff: Ryan Sponseller (main PI), Gerard Rocher-Ros (co-PI), Keridwen Whitmore (postdoc)
Collaborators:
Benoit Demars (Project coordinator, NIVA, Norway), Maeve McGovern (NIVA, Tromsö) Susana Bernal (CEAB-CSIC, Spain), Anna Lupon (CEAB-CSIC, Spain), Joshua Dean (University of Bristol, UK), Tom Battin (EPFL, Switzerland), Björn Gucker (UFSJ, Brazil)
Funding: Water4all (EU), FORMAS.
BREATHE’s main objective is to co-design with stakeholders a multiscale (river basin to global) sensor-based River Observation System (RIOS) including dissolved oxygen and whole river metabolism to quantify aquatic ecosystem services such as climate regulation, water purification, and habitat suitability.
In Sweden, we will focus on how river and peatland restoration impact ecosystem health through the lense of river ecosystem modelling using dissolved oxygen data.