By Dr Charles Harvey, SMART

1. Carbon Dynamics in Bruneiʼs Peat Forests
Charles Harvey, MIT

2. SMART/Brunei Forestry
Collaboration

3. A.
5 km
Seria
Pro#les of
Kuala Belait hydraulic and
biogeochemical
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characterization Eddy-#ux
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it Automated towers
rain gages
Transmission
D a m it
Solar-powered line
research station
Dam it
t ower sit e
Automated
M Dam it
river gages
en
Mendaram da st udy area
Ba t ower sit e
ra
m
ra River carbon
m Mendaram
st udy area #ux stations
Sarawak
Labi
Hills
Piezometers with
pressure transducers
Foot print of #ux
measurements
Sit e overview Operat ional 2011-09 Under developm ent

4. Questions:
(1) What are the carbon fluxes to and
from peat lands?
(2) How does peat accumulate?
Chicken-or-egg conundrum
Local dynamics in peat domes
(3) How does deforestation affect peat?

5. Project Components
1. Power supply and infrastructure
2. Small-scale characterization
Soil chambers
Meter-scale hydrology
Core analysis
3. Large-scale fluxes
River fluxes
Atmospheric fluxes
4. Biogeochemical Characterization
5. Hydrologic models
6. Ecosystem models

9. Solar-powered research station

10. Project Components
1. Power supply and infrastructure
2. Small-scale characterization
Soil chambers
Meter-scale hydrology
Core analysis
3. Large-scale fluxes
River fluxes
Atmospheric fluxes
4. Biogeochemical Characterization
5. Hydrologic models
6. Ecosystem models

11. Soil gas
chambers

14. Project Components
1. Power supply and infrastructure
2. Small-scale characterization
Soil chambers
Meter-scale hydrology
Core analysis
3. Large-scale fluxes
River fluxes
Atmospheric fluxes
4. Biogeochemical Characterization
5. Hydrologic models
6. Ecosystem models

15. Meter Scale Hydrology

19. Project Components
1. Power supply and infrastructure
2. Small-scale characterization
Soil chambers
Meter-scale hydrology
Core analysis
3. Large-scale fluxes
River fluxes
Atmospheric fluxes
4. Biogeochemical Characterization
5. Hydrologic models
6. Ecosystem models

21. Core
Analysis

22. Project Components
1. Power supply and infrastructure
2. Small-scale characterization
Soil chambers
Meter-scale hydrology
Core analysis
3. Large-scale fluxes
River fluxes
Atmospheric fluxes
4. Biogeochemical Characterization
5. Hydrologic models
6. Ecosystem models

23. River
Fluxes

24. Project Components
1. Power supply and infrastructure
2. Small-scale characterization
Soil chambers
Meter-scale hydrology
Core analysis
3. Large-scale fluxes
River fluxes
Atmospheric fluxes
4. Biogeochemical Characterization
5. Hydrologic models
6. Ecosystem models

25. Atmospheric Exchange

26. Fieldwork

27. Project Components
1. Power supply and infrastructure
2. Small-scale characterization
Soil chambers
Meter-scale hydrology
Core analysis
3. Large-scale fluxes
River fluxes
Atmospheric fluxes
4. Biogeochemical Characterization
5. Hydrologic models
6. Ecosystem models

28. Biogeochemical sampling

29. Chloride

30. Project Components
1. Power supply and infrastructure
2. Small-scale characterization
Soil chambers
Meter-scale hydrology
Core analysis
3. Large-scale fluxes
River fluxes
Atmospheric fluxes
4. Biogeochemical Characterization
5. Hydrologic models
6. Ecosystem models

32. Project Components
1. Power supply and infrastructure
2. Small-scale characterization
Soil chambers
Meter-scale hydrology
Core analysis
3. Large-scale fluxes
River fluxes
Atmospheric fluxes
4. Biogeochemical Characterization
5. Hydrologic models
6. Ecosystem models

35. Ecological modeling

37. • Brunei’s peat forest are a unique and valuable
resource
• We are building novel sensors that quantify carbon
fluxes into and out of the peat lands and are
designed to work in the peat forest
• We are combing data with models to better
understand how peat is created and destroyed

38. Thank You