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- EAS 4602
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Geochemistry
Overview
Environmental and marine geochemistry research focuses on low temperature and low pressure geochemistry in aquatic systems, both freshwater and marine environments. Our research objectives are to characterize and understand the biogeochemical processes that regulate the distribution of inorganic and organic compounds in order to determine their impact on the environment in the past, the present, and the future. We also use geochemical measurements in geological and biological archives such as corals, deep sea sediments and cave deposits to investigate ocean and climate history. An important component of our research is field-based and includes oceanic cruises, in situ measurements in coastal and deep-sea environments, and investigations in pristine or polluted rivers, lakes, aquifers, and saltmarshes. Finally, a number of geochemists here deal with working to understand the interactions between minerals and the subsurface environment, both abiotically and in the presence of microorganisms that can dissolve or precipitate minerals. Examples include metal-reducing bacteria that can be important for environmental remediation or organisms that store phosphate as a solid phase that later precipitates as apatite during diagenesis.
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