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Tonya DelSontro is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo specializing in Aquatic Biogeochemistry and Limnology. Her research at the Aquatic Greenhouse Gas Dynamics Lab focuses on human and climate-induced changes in aquatic carbon cycles, particularly methane emissions from lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands. She integrates fieldwork with laboratory experiments to develop predictive models spanning local to global scales.
- PhD (2011) and MSc (2006) from ETH Zurich and University of California, Santa Barbara
- Teaches courses in Geochemistry, Environmental Geology, and Geoliminology
Her work addresses critical climate-water intersections through projects like freshwater reservoir emission quantification, methane ebullition scaling, and anthropogenic impact assessments. Key findings include demonstrating how nutrient enrichment exacerbates methane emissions and identifying sediment-trapped carbon as methane production hotspots.
Recent publications span topics from arctic carbon dynamics to tropical reservoir variability, with methodological contributions to eddy covariance measurements and bubble size distribution analyses. She has received major awards including the Marie Curie Fellowship and Swiss National Science Foundation support.
- 2019 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
- 2014 Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship
- 2012 Outstanding Poster Award, EGU
