Applications and Planned Activities

• Modern climate/weather isotope relations allow for more accurate interpretations of climate proxies as well as the calibration of atmospheric models

• Facilitate understanding of storm tracks in regulating precipitation isotopic variability

• Estimates of glacial melt water inputs into aquatic systems

• Quantification of surface and groundwater interactions

• Quantification of permafrost meltwater abundance and use by terrestrial ecosystems

• Aid in migratory bird forensics

• Estimating field metabolic rates

• Crop and diet forensics

• Provide insight into evaporation and transpiration processes.