U.S.-Australia Cooperative Research: Benthic Chamber Research of Nutrient Cycling in Australian Bays and Estuaries

这是南加州大学的William BERELSON和位于堪培拉的澳大利亚地质调查组织的David T. Heggie的合作研究项目。资金将用于测试由国家科学基金会海洋科学部提供的研究资金开发的新型底栖生物室的组成部分，同时对澳大利亚海湾和河口的营养物质回收和反硝化进行研究。澳大利亚的研究项目为美国的研究工作提供了实实在在的好处。例如，他们提供多个腔室进行并排比较，他们有分析设施和专业知识来处理许多腔室样品。他们为研究船和潜水员提供后勤现场支持，他们有兴趣进行复杂而昂贵的操作实验，如标记N峰值实验和N2测量。这将有助于开发在澳大利亚和美国浅海水域使用的最佳设备。

9724766 BERELSON This is a cooperative research project between William Berelson of the University of Southern California and David T. Heggie of the Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Canberra. Funds will be used to support testing the components of new benthic chambers developed with research funding from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences while conducting research into nutrient recycling and denitrification in Australian bays and estuaries. The Australian research projects offer tangible benefit to the U.S. research effort. For example, they make multiple chambers available to conduct side-by-side comparisons, and they have analytical facilities and expertise to process many chamber samples. They offer logistical field support with research vessels and divers, and they are interested in conducting complex and expensive manipulation experiments such as labeled N spike experiments and N2 measurements. This will contribute to the development of the best device for use in shallow coastal Australian and U.S. waters.