SGER: Summer 2005 Hurricane Induced Mississippi River Flux Versus Hurricane Induced Sediment-Resuspension Flux of Polycylic Aromatic Hydrocarbons into the Gulf of Mexico

[0555369]米特拉该项目试图量化墨西哥湾最近飓风造成的再悬浮沉积物中颗粒相多环芳烃的通量，并将其与密西西比河下游和庞查特雷恩湖的多环芳烃通量进行比较，因为新奥尔良石油污染的碳氢化合物通量储存库也增加了多环芳烃的水平。该项目量化了密西西比河、路易斯安那州沿海地区和墨西哥湾悬浮沉积物中的多环芳烃，并确定了这些沉积物中多环芳烃的飓风前基线水平。他将把这些水平与从密西西比河三角洲西部（密西西比河-庞恰特雷恩湖的影响范围）和密西西比河三角洲东部（密西西比河+庞恰特雷恩湖的影响范围）的岩心中收集的沉积多环芳烃进行对比。

0555369 MitraThe PI seeks to quantify the flux of particulate phase PAHs from re-suspended sediments as a result of the recent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and compare that flux to PAH flux from the lower Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, also having augmented levels of PAHs from having been a repository of hydrocarbon flux from petroleum contamination in New Orleans. The PI has quantified PAHs in suspended sediments in the Mississippi River, coastal Louisiana, and in the Gulf of Mexico and has pre-hurricane baseline levels of PAHs in these sediments. He will contrast these levels with sedimentary PAHs collected from cores west of the Mississippi River delta (Mississippi River - the realm of influence of Lake Pontchartrain) to that east of the Mississippi River delta (Mississippi River + the realm of influence of Lake Pontchartrain).