Rapid Survey and In Situ Measurement of Anthropogenic Contaminants in Surficial Marine Sediments (Collaborative Research)

9708380诺克斯和扬克这个项目将资助应用同位素研究中心(CAIS)的研究，以改进用于评估与沉积物相关的污染物的环境影响的仪器和技术的最新水平。这项研究将使能够结合污染物孔隙水-沉积物分配和海底-底水交换的详细过程研究，对污染分布进行快速、大规模的调查。其结果将是一种快速且具有成本效益的方法，以调查与沉积物相关的污染物的去向、分布和生物可利用性之间的关系，这些关系可以在具有广泛区域范围的地理区域进行。研究的第一阶段是创建实验室和现场测试和评估的实验模型。在该项目的第二年，实验系统将在南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿港的一个现场进行现场测试和性能评估。

9708380 Noakes & Jahnke This project will fund research at the Center for Applied Isotope Studies (CAIS) to improve the state of the art for instrumentation and techniques used to assess the environmental impacts of sediment-associated contaminants. This research will enable rapid, large-scale surveys of contaminated distributions to be conducted in conjunction with detailed process studies of contaminant pore water- sediment partitioning and seafloor-bottom water exchange. The result will be a rapid and cost-effective approach to investigate relationships between the fate, distribution, and bioavailability of sediment-associated contaminants that can be performed over geographic regions having a broad areal extent. The first phase of the research is to create an experimental model for laboratory and field testing and evaluation. During the second year of the project, the experimental systems will be field tested and evaluated for performance at a site in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.***