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Estuaries and coastal zones are the interface between ocean
and land, and are regions of intense mixing of marine and fresh
water. As such, estuaries and coasts are quite dynamic in terms
of biologic and geochemical processing of both land and marine
constituents. The estuarine and coastal chemistry projects at
OPAL center on the sources, transformations, trajectories and
fates of several bioactive chemicals known to be important to
biological productivity and global carbon cycling. We are interested
in the effects these systems have on nitrogen cycling, organic
carbon transformations and carbonate system dynamics.
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