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Watching the Fraser River Flow

At Hell’s Gate in British Columbia, the Fraser River flows with roughly twice the water volume of the Niagara Falls. A team of scientists and students from WHOI and the University of the Fraser Valley recently returned from a three-week trip to study the source, movement, age, and composition of organic carbon transported by the Fraser to the Pacific. Rivers are a critical link between carbon removed from the atmosphere by land plants and its eventual sequestration in the global ocean. The work is part of the Woods Hole Global Rivers Project.(Photo by Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)