{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE260100890"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"DE260100890","attributes":{"code":"DE260100890","administering-organisation":"University of Southern Queensland","announcement-administering-organisation":"University of Southern Queensland","scheme-name":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2026,"years-funded":3,"project-start-date":"2026-01-01","anticipated-end-date":"2028-12-31","grant-summary":"Artificial aquatic ecosystems – sources or sinks of nitrous oxide? This project aims to determine the contribution of farm dams, canals, and urban ponds to human-derived nitrous oxide emissions: a greenhouse gas 270-times more harmful than carbon dioxide. It will investigate how nitrous oxide is produced and consumed by farm and urban waters and assess their potential to offset emissions by storing nitrogen and carbon. Findings are expected to provide crucial data to address the current gap in national and international emissions accounting, where human-made waterbodies are neglected. The outcome of this project will include a monetary evaluation of artificial waterbodies and the benefit will be management strategies to reduce nitrogen pollution and emissions in farm and city waters.","funding-current":534239.00,"funding-at-announcement":529999,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Jackie","familyName":"Webb","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0003-1274-363X "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Jackie","familyName":"Webb","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0003-1274-363X "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"University of Southern Queensland","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"University of Southern Queensland","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"3702","name":"Climate Change Science","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"370203","name":"Greenhouse Gas Inventories and Fluxes","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"370799","name":"Hydrology Not Elsewhere Classified","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"410501","name":"Environmental Biogeochemistry","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"110504","name":"Water Services and Utilities","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"180306","name":"Measurement and Assessment of Freshwater Quality (Incl. Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water)","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"190301","name":"Climate Change Mitigation Strategies","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["Denmark","England","New Zealand","Sweden","United States of America"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Australia’s farms and cities have an abundance of human-made waters, including farm dams, stormwater ponds, irrigation canals, and ditches, which are the first line of defence against nitrogen runoff to freshwaters. These waterbodies can attenuate nitrogen runoff and contribute nitrous oxide emissions: a greenhouse gas more harmful than carbon dioxide. The UN has declared “nitrogen is the next big environmental challenge of the decade”, yet the amount of nitrogen stored and emitted from human-made waters remain absent from global nitrogen and nitrous oxide budgets. This project will deliver the first dataset of nitrous oxide emissions and sediment nitrogen storage from human-made waters in Australia. Addressing this knowledge gap will provide a basis for estimating these emissions in the National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and put Australia at the forefront of international nitrogen accounting efforts. To determine how human-made waterbodies can be used as tools to reduce freshwater nitrogen pollution and offset emissions, the monetary value of the different types of water infrastructure in providing these environmental services will be determined to incentivise management. These findings will be delivered at national water conferences to reach governments, farming industries, private water companies, and public authorities to encourage adoption of water infrastructure into sustainability frameworks."}}}