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Expertise
 

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  • Ultra-clean sampling, storage and analyses techniques.

  • Determination of inorganic and organomercury compounds in organisms, plants, sediments, air, water.

  • Transformation rates of the mercury species and fluxes at the air-sea interface, at the water-sediment interface and in-out rivers, estuaries and coastal seas.

  • Spatial and seasonal variations in the transport of the mercury species.

  • Determination of trace metals in organisms, plants, sediments, air, water.

  • Spatial and seasonal variations in the transport of trace metals.

  • Biogeochemical cycles of trace elements

  • Marine barium biogeochemistry

  • Trace, minor and major elements in non-organic biogenic substrates as tracers of environmental changes (shells of bivalves and calcareous sponges)

  • Production, transport and fate of organic matter and associated elements in marine systems. New production and regenerated production. Tracers of export production.

  • Carbon and nitrogen flow in tropical coastal mangrove ecosystems (Kenya, Sri Lanka, India) and in temperate estuaries (Scheldt river, Seine river).

  • Stable C and N isotope tracers (d13C en d15N ) as a tool to understand trophic relationships in deep-sea hydrothermal communities; coastal, estuarine and riverine ecosystems

  • Stable isotope composition of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), dissolved O2 and dissolved N2

  • Compound-specific stable isotope analysis of microbial biomarkers (phospholipid fatty acids) as tracers of substrate origin

  • Biogeochemical cycle of carbon in coastal waters, estuaries and rivers

  • Characterisation and classification of polluted waterways and sediments.

  • Assessment of the potential mobilisation of pollutants in sediments.

  • Identification of treatment and remediation procedures.

  • Modeling the biological nitrogen transformation processes in oceanic environments.

  • Modeling the biogeochemical behaviour of pollutants (trace metals, nutrients, microorganics) in rivers, estuaries and coastal seas.

  • Modeling of suspended barite formation and distribution in the Southern Ocean and its relation with the export production.

  • Modeling of toxic heavy metal distribution in waterways connecting the city of Brussels with the river Scheldt.

 

Last update : November, 2003

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