{"id":32732,"date":"2021-09-17T14:57:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=32732"},"modified":"2024-10-22T15:06:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T19:06:03","slug":"tides-and-microbes-transform-nitrogen-where-streams-and-the-ocean-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/tides-and-microbes-transform-nitrogen-where-streams-and-the-ocean-meet.htm","title":{"rendered":"Tides and microbes transform nitrogen where streams and the ocean meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enormous amounts of excess nitrogen hit water bodies all over the globe, including the U.S., due to runoff from agricultural and other human activities. This nitrogen can cause dead zones and harmful algal growth. Before it reaches the ocean, microbes can process and remove some of it from stream sediments, connected aquifers and tidal freshwater zones.\u00a0 Thanks to this process, coasts can have a decreased likelihood of harmful algal blooms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keeping coastal waters clean is important for many reasons, including the fact that about 60% of the U.S. population lives on coasts. But despite the importance of these nitrogen processes, researchers have not fully investigated how they work. Beyond understanding exactly how microbes process nitrogen, researchers are looking into whether or not microbes can tame algal blooms and how humans can boost the effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rebecca Barnes, associate professor of environmental science at Colorado College, studies and has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2019JG005164\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the way microbes process nitrogen, especially in tidal freshwater zones. Tidal freshwater zones are transitional environments between terrestrial and coastal waters, with freshwater chemistry and tidal physics. They don\u2019t fit the classical definitions of either rivers or estuaries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_32738\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32738\" class=\"size-large wp-image-32738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_6-600x394.jpg\" alt=\"tidal freshwater nitrogen\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_6-600x394.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_6-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_6-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_6.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Photos of the research site at high and low tide with diagrams describing the water movement in and out of the streambed &amp; bank. (Credit: Rebecca Barnes)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUnderstanding how nitrogen is processed within tidal freshwater zones is important given that they can extend tens to hundreds of kilometers inland and the majority of people live in these coastal areas. Despite their importance and size, these regions are not well characterized in the literature or our models,\u201d said Barnes. Barnes and her colleagues have since been working hard to fill in the knowledge gaps. \u201cIf we can understand these biogeochemical processes better, we can make better water resource and nutrient management decisions,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Work on filling in these gaps began several years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32740\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32740\" class=\"size-large wp-image-32740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_2-600x451.jpg\" alt=\"tidal freshwater nitrogen\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_2-600x451.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_2-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_2.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Sam Bray measuring flow at low tide in White Clay Creek . At high tide the sand bars on the left are submerged. (Credit: Cole Musial)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAudrey Sawyer [associate professor of earth sciences at The Ohio State University ] contacted me in spring 2014 and basically asked me, \u2018Will you be my biogeochemist?\u2019\u201c Barnes recalled. \u201cAudrey is a hydrogeologist but knew she would need a biogeochemist to partner with to complete the work. She brought preliminary data from White Clay Creek, Delaware and already had an idea of how water moved through sediment based on her prior research.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt kind of blew my mind when Audrey mentioned up and down movement in groundwater,\u201d Barnes noted. \u201cI hadn\u2019t thought about that. Our goal was to investigate those tidal freshwater zone conditions others had so often left out of models when thinking about riverine nitrogen processes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barnes and her team found undetectable to low nitrate concentrations in low oxygen environments of tidal freshwater areas, meaning denitrification was occurring as expected. However, in other tidal freshwater zone areas, they measured nitrate numbers that were quite high, meaning nitrification was definitely happening. This was a surprise for the team. While overall there was removal of nitrate, there were definite areas of nitrate production also.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32743\" style=\"width: 591px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32743\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/barnes_3-4.jpg\" alt=\"tidal freshwater nitrogen\" width=\"581\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/barnes_3-4.jpg 581w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/barnes_3-4-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">(left) View from the canoe while sampling water during high tide in the center of the channel. (Credit: Audrey Sawyer) (right) Deon Knights filtering water samples taken from wells installed perpendicular to White Clay Creek. (Credit: Rebecca Barnes)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studying nitrification and denitrification processes of tidal freshwater zones required using geochemical measurements and numerical models which ultimately showed tidal pumping leads to the rapid cycling of nitrogen in certain zones. Tidal pumping is the rise and fall of stream water with the tides. The changing water level can push more water into an aquifer. Water exchange between terrestrial and marine habitats happens largely because of tidal pumping effects. Tidal pumping also causes many types of chemical transfers in the intertidal aquifer, and powerfully influences marine nutrient loading. In tidal conditions with high oxygen, nitrification reactions reign. In low oxygen and high organic matter conditions, denitrification reactions predominate. \u201cGenerally we can say that denitrification takes place in conditions that are not aerobic, so microbes that don\u2019t need oxygen will be doing that,\u201d said Barnes. \u201cBut they\u2019re not specialized microbes. Just about any microbes you find in a tidal freshwater zone are likely able to denitrify. As far as nitrification, which happens after organic matter is broken down, these microbes are a little more specialized than the denitrification ones, but seem to be fairly ubiquitous in these environments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As far as limiting harmful algal blooms, Barnes notes that controlling such a process is \u201ca lot to ask of any one system.\u201d Barnes and others have found that a system that is more clay rich and organic matter rich will likely be better at controlling harmful algal blooms than sandier systems. However, tidal pumping behavior could still be exacerbating nitrogen additions.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32737\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32737\" class=\"size-large wp-image-32737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_5-600x320.jpg\" alt=\"tidal freshwater nitrogen\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_5-600x320.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_5-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_5-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_5.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Figure illustrates the sediment structure around the streambed and the infrastructure used to sample water over the tidal cycle (White Clay Creek sits in the streambed on the left side of the figure. Wells A and B are submerged throughout the tidal cycle; Well H is approximately 30 m from the riverbank). Superimposed on the cross section are zones describing the dominant nitrogen processes occurring in that portion of the groundwater as determined by geochemical measurements and modeling scenarios. (Credit: Rebecca Barnes)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Mississippi drains 40% of the U.S., goes into the Gulf and causes low oxygen and dead zones. We also see these off the coast of China and in the Mediterranean Sea,\u201d she explained. \u201cWhile some of it is natural, the advent and widespread use of fertilizers starting in the middle of the last century, dramatically increased the rate of nitrogen export to coasts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As far as what humans can do to help prevent harmful algal blooms, Barnes mentioned that private homeowners have control over areas right up to tidal freshwater zones. Some strategies they can employ to cut down on harmful algal blooms include using less fertilizer, allowing native vegetation to grow near the water, and slowing the water down, making it seep into the ground instead of run off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barnes summarized, \u201cAs writer Mary Anna\u00efse Heglar reminds us, we all have to ask, \u2018What can we do next?\u2019 We can all take small steps.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microbes transform nitrogen in tidal freshwater zones, usually causing denitrification, but recent research says areas of high nitrogen have been found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":32739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8,44,510],"tags":[2299,60,2300,140,2303,147,1278,2304,2302,2301,503],"class_list":["post-32732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-articles","category-news","category-newsfeed","category-oceans-coasts","category-water-quality","tag-coasts","tag-featured","tag-freshwater","tag-groundwater","tag-nitrates","tag-nitrogen","tag-runoff","tag-tidal-freshwater-zones","tag-tidal-pumping","tag-tidal-zones","tag-water-quality"],"remote_post_permalink":false,"remote_post_featured_image":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tides and microbes transform nitrogen where streams and the ocean meet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Microbes transform nitrogen in tidal freshwater zones, usually causing denitrification, but recent research says areas of high nitrogen have been found. %\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/tides-and-microbes-transform-nitrogen-where-streams-and-the-ocean-meet.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tides and microbes transform nitrogen where streams and the ocean meet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Microbes transform nitrogen in tidal freshwater zones, usually causing denitrification, but recent research says areas of high nitrogen have been found. %\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/tides-and-microbes-transform-nitrogen-where-streams-and-the-ocean-meet.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Environmental Monitor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-17T18:57:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-22T19:06:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Barnes_1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"940\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"617\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lori Balster\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lori Balster\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/tides-and-microbes-transform-nitrogen-where-streams-and-the-ocean-meet.htm#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/tides-and-microbes-transform-nitrogen-where-streams-and-the-ocean-meet.htm\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lori Balster\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc098253ffd6cd9f653771a15dbd57df\"},\"headline\":\"Tides and microbes transform nitrogen where streams and the ocean meet\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-17T18:57:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-22T19:06:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/tides-and-microbes-transform-nitrogen-where-streams-and-the-ocean-meet.htm\"},\"wordCount\":1087,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/tides-and-microbes-transform-nitrogen-where-streams-and-the-ocean-meet.htm#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.fondriest.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/Barnes_1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"coasts\",\"featured\",\"freshwater\",\"groundwater\",\"nitrates\",\"nitrogen\",\"runoff\",\"tidal freshwater zones\",\"tidal pumping\",\"tidal zones\",\"water quality\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Featured Articles\",\"News\",\"Newsfeed\",\"Oceans &amp; 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