Paleo and Chemical Oceanography
Lake sediment sampling near coal-fired power plant on shore of Lake Michigan to determine concentrations of mercury and lead.
Projected changes in reef calcification rate based on average calcification response of two species of tropical marine algae and one coral and a marine mesocosm. (From: Kleypas, Buddemeier, Archer and others, Science, 284, 118-120, 1999.)
Hot mud in Kamchatka.
Graduate students take the night shift on the Geotraces mission and deploy a deep ocean water sampler in the South Indian Ocean.
Geotraces experiment team on fantale of oceanographic research ship with Albert Colman, third from left.
Chemical oceanography is a vital discipline in the study of Earth's climate and history. Current efforts to understand the cycle of carbon in the surface environment require intimate understanding of the ocean's cycle of calcium carbonate. Efforts to understand climate are further enhanced by the informative records of oceanic trace elements and isotopic ratios available from deep-sea sediment analysis.
Researchers Involved in the Study of Chemical Oceanography
• David Archer
• Albert Colman
• Pam Martin
• Emilia Salgueiro
• Kayla Lewis
