Mary Jade Farruggia and Steve Sadro Publish Study on Wildfire Smoke Impacting Lakes
Ph.D. candidate, Mary Jade Farruggia, and department faculty member, Steve Sadro, published a study in the Global Change Biology journal which examined how wildfire smoke impacts lakes. The study found that wildfire smoke deposited particles in the majority of lakes in North America which lasted more than 30 days. The study goes on to look at the impact this has on local ecology including the food webs for these lakes.
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https://caes.ucdavis.edu/news/wildfire-smoke-reached-99-us-lakes-2019-2021