Text Box: (www.uncw.edu/chem) Research Opportunities Marine and Environmental Chemistry  

 

 

 

       


Brooks Avery
Dan Baden
Bob Kieber
Steve Skrabal
Joan Willey
Jeff Wright

  • Global carbon cycling in the atmosphere, water column, and sediments anthropogenic and biogenic).

  • Effect of global warming and sea level rise on the remineralization of organic matter in coastal and estuarine sediments.

  • Biogeochemical controls on methyl mercury production and flux in estuarine sediments.

  • Isotopic characterization of carbon to elucidate sources and cycling of  organic matter.

  • Marine and environmental geochemistry.

  • Speciation and cycling of trace metals (especially Hg) in natural waters.

  • Sediment-water exchange in estuaries and coastal waters.

  • Structure/activity relationships of harmful algal bloom toxins as they interact with receptors in biological systems.

  • Analytical methods for identifying natural ligands and receptors

  • Solid phase and liquid phase measurement of dissociation constants and dynamic equilibria in biological systems.

 

  • Chemical composition and reactions in rainwater, including trace metal speciation, redox reactions, photochemical reactions and nutrient fluxes.

  • Impacts of atmospheric deposition (rain, dust, gas exchange) on the chemistry of surface seawater.

  • Chemical speciation, biogeochemical transformations and fluxes of mercury, in rainwater, river water, estuarine water and seawater.

Dr. Bob Kieber

  • oAir sea exchange processes especially as they relate to global warming issues.

  • oTrace metal speciation in estuarine and atmospheric waters.

  • oPhotochemically mediated processes and their impact on environmental systems.

 
Dr. Jeff Wright

  • Isolation and identification of bioactive compounds from marine organisms.

  • Identification and analysis of naturally occurring marine toxins.