Coring a mobile mudbank deposit ~ 5 km offshore of colonizing mangroves near the Sinnamary River mouth, French Guiana

Biogeochemical cycling and authigenic mineral formation in suboxic tropical mobile mud belts

[project description]

Principal Investigators:

Students Supported:

  • Megan Dantzler
  • Caterina Panzeca
  • Vanessa Madrid
  • Vasso (Bessy) Alexandratos
Graduate student Caterina Panzeca accepting core offering from Prof. Bob Aller and mentally preparing for night of sample processing
Low tide exposure of bioturbated highs and mobile mud ponds in eroding tidal flat region of migrating mudbank deposit.  Gas flux chamber (Prof.  John Mak) is present in foreground

Funded by the NSF Chemical Oceanography Program

Location: French Guiana,  5.45 N,  53.9 W

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