The University of Louisiana at Lafayette honored faculty, researchers and mentors whose work is advancing discovery
Davide Oppo publishes Nature article on 150 million year record of methane seepage
Sat, 08/01/2020 - 9:18am
Top Stories
Viability of Invasive Carp as Crawfish Bait
A team of researchers in our School of Biological Sciences, led by professors Kelly Robinson and Emily Kane,
Davide Oppo of our School of Geosciences recently published an article in Nature, A record of seafloor methane seepage across the last 150 million years. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and seafloor methane seepage is a significant source of carbon in the marine environment. The processes and temporal patterns of seafloor methane seepage over multi-million-year time scales are still poorly understood. In this study, Dr. Oppo compiled data on methane-derived carbonates to build a proxy time series of methane emissions over the last 150 My and statistically compared it with the main hypothesized geological controllers of methane emission.