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EuroRun - Major Article Published
 Dear members of the EFFS-federated societies,
We, Pascal and Katrin, started the first EFFS collaborative European project, EuroRun – Assessing CO2 Fluxes from European Running Waters” in 2016. Since the start of EuroRun, a lot of water has flown down the streams, but also the EuroRun chambers to measure carbon dioxide fluxes in some of them. Now, we are happy to announce that the main article of the EuroRun project got published in Communications Earth & Environment (https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00192-w).
We want to use the chance to share the main article with you and say thank you to the seven freshwater societies that provided funding for this project, namely the ones from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Please also find our sincerest gratitude in the Acknowledgement section of the article.
The article is authored by 46 (mostly) early-career European freshwater scientists and published Open Access. Briefly, we assessed the spatial and temporal variability of carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes at the air-water interface in 34 streams distributed across 11 European countries. The collaborative character of the project, uniting a large group of early career researchers, allowed to collect a large dataset based on direct measurements that is scarce in large-scale studies. We show that the majority of streams had higher CO2 fluxes at night compared to the day, independent of the month that we measured. Hence, our study highlights the importance of accounting for the diel variability of fluvial CO2 fluxes for accurate daily and annual estimates of CO2 emissions from running waters.
We hope that you enjoy reading the article. We certainly enjoyed leading and performing the research in this first collaborative project. If anyone is interested to learn more about EuroRun and the associated projects, we recommend our homepage: https://freshproject-eurorun.jimdofree.com
Yours sincerely,
Pascal Bodmer and Katrin Attermeyer
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