Laboratory for Oceanographic and Environmental Research

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General Research Areas

bulletBiogeochemical cycling of trace elements, metalloids, radionuclides, and dissolved organic carbon in natural waters
bulletInvestigations into the role of natural colloids in mediating the transport, fate, bioavailibility and speciation of metals and metalloids in coastal environments
bulletBioaccumulation and food chain transfer of potentially toxic elements
bulletAtmospheric transport processes and fluxes of trace elements and radionuclides into coastal waters
bulletInvestigations into sediment-water exchange processes
bulletParticle dynamics in water and in sediments; Sediment transport and erosion processes; Geochronology of coastal sediments
bulletGeochronology of carbonate sediments and other deposits
bulletDevelopment of low level analytical techniques for chemical and phase speciation of trace elements and metalloids in natural waters

 

Major Research Projects

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The Calfed Mercury Program

Marine Colloids

The Oceanic Gel Phase as Part of the Continuum between Dissolved, Colloidal and Particulate Organic Carbon

Biogeochemical Cycling and Environmental Stability of Plutonium Relevant to Long-Term Stewardship of DOE Sites

Thorium and Protactinium binding to Exopolymeric Substances (EPS)

129I/127I as a new environmental tracer or geochronometer for biogeochemical or hydrodynamic processes in the Hydrosphere and Geosphere: The central role of organo-iodine.

Cycling of Organic Carbon in Marine Systems

Experimental and Applied Research in Modern Sedimentary Systems:  Applications of Isotopic Methods

Radiochemistry Investigations

Mercury Investigations