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A
variety of research activities are carried in my lab.
Broadly, these fall under the category of biogeochemical processes in
estuarine and marine sediments. Past and present research activities
include studies of:
- Manganese
and iron redox chemistry,
- The
biogeochemistry and organic geochemistry of amino acids, aliphatic
amines and carbohydrates in marine sediments,
- Fluorescence
of pore water dissolved organic matter (DOM),
- Fluxes of
DOM from sediments,
- The cycling
and reactivity of DOM in sediments,
- The
kinetics of organic matter remineralization and nutrient regeneration
in sediments,
- Trace
metal complexation in sediment pore waters, its role in controlling
trace metal benthic fluxes, and the role of sediments as sources of
trace metal complexing ligands,
- Shallow
water sediment carbonate dissolution and sediment-carbonate seagrass
interactions,
- Modeling of
sediment biogeochemical processes.
Field work on these projects is carried out in:
- Chesapeake
Bay,
- Elizabeth
River estuary,
- The
mid-Atlantic continental shelf,
- Carbonate
sediments in the Bahamas
near Lee
Stocking Island,
- The
California continental margin between Los Angeles and Monterey.
Current Lab
Personnel:
- Professor
David Burdige (click here for Dr. Burdige's
"unofficial" biography)
- Mr. Scott
Kline, PhD student
- Mr. Xinping
Hu, PhD student
Prospective
graduate students interested in working in my research group should
contact me (dburdige@odu.edu) and go to look at the departement
graduate studies page.
click here
to see more information about the equipment in my lab
click here
for a list of my publications
click here for more informaton on
biogeochemical research at ODU
(last up-date 1/6/06)
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