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Suzanne Tank

Associate Professor, Tier I Canada Research Chair in Land-Ocean Biogeochemistry, Faculty of Science - Biological Sciences

Pronouns: she/her

Personal Website: https://www.suzannetank.net/

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Contact

Associate Professor, Tier I Canada Research Chair in Land-Ocean Biogeochemistry, Faculty of Science - Biological Sciences
Email
suzanne.tank@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 248-1152
Address
2-281 Centennial Ctr For Interdisciplinary SCS I
11355 - Saskatchewan Drive
Edmonton AB
T6G 2H5

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

carbon cycle land-ocean change Arctic permafrost

Research

Research in our lab is broadly focused on understanding the current and future functioning of the land-freshwater-ocean continuum, with a particular focus on biogeochemistry (the cycling of various elements, which underpins all life) and ecology, and the connections between them. We think about climate change, permafrost, carbon cycling, and nutrient dynamics, and how these processes act and interact in freshwaters and connected systems from the Canadian Arctic to the Pacific Coast.

Although our research is field focused, much of what we do also has a strong analytical component. Students in the lab master a variety of skills, including an array of laboratory, statistical, and experimental techniques. Our work is inherently multi-disciplinary, and we therefore collaborate with other scientists from across Canada and internationally.

Featured Publications

Recent trends in the chemistry of major northern rivers signal widespread Arctic change

Suzanne E. Tank, James W. McClelland, Robert G. M. Spencer, Alexander I. Shiklomanov, Anya Suslova, Florentina Moatar, Rainer M. W. Amon, Lee W. Cooper, Greg Elias, Vyacheslav V. Gordeev, Christopher Guay, Tatiana Yu. Gurtovaya, Lyudmila S. Kosmenko, Edda A. Mutter, Bruce J. Peterson, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Peter A. Raymond, Paul F. Schuster, Lindsay Scott, Robin Staples, Robert G. Striegl, Mikhail Tretiakov, Alexander V. Zhulidov, Nikita Zimov, Sergey Zimov, Robert M. Holmes

Nature Geoscience. 2023 September; 10.1038/s41561-023-01247-7

Thaw-driven mass wasting couples slopes with downstream systems, and effects propagate through Arctic drainage networks

Steven V. Kokelj, Justin Kokoszka, Jurjen van der Sluijs, Ashley C. A. Rudy, Jon Tunnicliffe, Sarah Shakil, Suzanne E. Tank, Scott Zolkos

The Cryosphere. 2021 July; 10.5194/tc-15-3059-2021

Particulate dominance of organic carbon mobilization from thaw slumps on the Peel Plateau, NT: Quantification and implications for stream systems and permafrost carbon release

S Shakil, S E Tank, S V Kokelj, J E Vonk, S Zolkos

Environmental Research Letters. 2020 November; 10.1088/1748-9326/abac36

Landscape matters: Predicting the biogeochemical effects of permafrost thaw on aquatic networks with a state factor approach

Suzanne E. Tank, Jorien E. Vonk, Michelle A. Walvoord, James W. McClelland, Isabelle Laurion, Benjamin W. Abbott

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 2020 July; 10.1002/ppp.2057

Mineral Weathering and the Permafrost Carbon‐Climate Feedback

Scott Zolkos, Suzanne E. Tank, Steven V. Kokelj

Geophysical Research Letters. 2018 September; 10.1029/2018GL078748

A global hotspot for dissolved organic carbon in hypermaritime watersheds of coastal British Columbia

Allison A. Oliver, Suzanne E. Tank, Ian Giesbrecht, Maartje C. Korver, William C. Floyd, Paul Sanborn, Chuck Bulmer, Ken P. Lertzman

Biogeosciences. 2017 August; 10.5194/bg-14-3743-2017

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