MSRC graduate students Caterina Panzeca, Megan Dantzler, and Vanessa Madrid (left to right) on board the R/V Cape Ferguson (AIMS) prepare to sample mangrove fringe deposits along the Wame River in the Purarie Delta

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
MSRC graduate student Lynn Abramson on board the R/V Melville (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) proudly displaying subcores obtained from the foreset region of the Gulf of Papua clinoform delta
Dr. Gregg Brunskill, colleague from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) explains project purposes and goals to local villagers from along the Bamu River, Papua New Guinea.   Local people boarded the R/V Cape Ferguson to observe sampling and discuss findings

Funded by the NSF Chemical Oceanography Program

Location: Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea,  8.215 S,  144.399 E

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