Past and Present Water Column Anoxia

University Of Washington, Seattle WA

Investigators

Abstract

ABSTRACT OCE-0332518 Funds for U.S. scientists to travel to Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine to participate in the NATO Advanced Research Workshop entitled "Past and Present Water Column Anoxia" to be held October 4-8, 2003 has been requested. The primary objective of the workshop is to facilitate exchange and communication between scientific groups from different countries studying past and present anoxic conditions in pelagic marine environments. The meeting will focus on the following four main topics: (1) nutrient and metal cycling at the redox transition: (2) microbial ecology of the oxic/anoxic interface; (3) biogeochemistry of anaerobic methane oxidation; and (4) anoxia development and oceanic anoxic events in the past. It is anticipated that approximately 8 participants from the United States will travel to the Ukraine to attend the workshop. Costs for the participants to attend the workshop will be covered by NATO grant.