rivers & estuaries

Ocean BGC

PI(s):

Raymond N. Sambrotto

This page contains information on the research activities in R. Sambrotto's Lab. at Lamont-Doherty. Its covers the people involved and the analytical work we do on the biogeochemistry of oceans and estuaries. It includes the analytical capabilities available to outside users as well as information and protocols for people working in the lab.

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oceanbgc

A Day in the Life of the Hudson River: Snapshot Day

PI(s):

Margie Turrin

In this annual fall event school groups all along the Hudson River estuary go down to the river's edge to collect scientific information and share it to creat

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A Day in the Life of the Hudson River:Snapshot Day

Paleoecology Laboratory

PI(s):

Dorothy M. Peteet

Describes global research using vegetation shifts to reconstruct local and regional changes in the landscape due to climate and/or anthropogenic influence.

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Paleoecology Laboratory

Jamaica Bay Physical and Biogeochemical Study

PI(s):

Arnold L. Gordon

Integrated reconnaissance of the physical and biogeochemical characteristics of Jamaica Bay, New York.

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Jamaica Bay physical and biogeochemical study

Location

United States

40° 36' 40.8456" N, 73° 50' 30.6888" W

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MARGINS Program

PI(s):

Geoffrey A. Abers

Continental margins are the Earth's principal loci for producing hydrocarbon and metal resources, for earthquake, landslide, volcanic and climatic hazards, and for

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MARGINS Program

Name	Title	Fields of interest
Dorothy M. Peteet	Adjunct Senior Research Scientist	Paleoclimate, paleoecology, climate modeling, wetland carbon storage, palynology.
Geoffrey A. Abers	Associate Director - Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics	Earthquake seismology, imaging and tectonics of active plate boundaries
Raymond N. Sambrotto	Lamont Associate Research Professor
Michael S. Steckler	Lamont Research Professor	Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, Isostasy, Stratigraphic Modeling, Marine Geophysics

Imagining the Hudson before Humans

October 07, 2011

The Hudson River that explorer Henry Hudson sailed some 400 years ago had no power plants on its shores. No trains, bridges, factories or houses. Those innovations changed the river, leaving a legacy of PCBs, sewage and other pollutants. But pollution is just one way that humans have transformed the river. A small way, it turns out.
Sewage Still Plagues Hudson River

August 11, 2011

People are swimming in the Hudson again, and while clumps of sewage rarely float by anymore, the water is not reliably clean, says a report released this week from the environmental group Riverkeeper.
Study Affirms Gulf Oil Spill’s Vastness

September 23, 2010

BP’s leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was conclusively sealed this week, but even now questions remain about the amount of oil that actually came out of it. Now, in the first independent, peer-reviewed paper on the leak’s volume, scientists have affirmed heightened estimates of what is now acknowledged as the largest marine oil accident ever.


	Sediment Flux and the Anthropocene	Earth Science Colloquium
	Hudson River: A Swimmable Future?	Part of the 2011 Public Lecture Series
	Estimating the Magnitude of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Leak	Earth Science Colloquium
	New York's Piermont Marsh	A 7,000-year Archive of Climate Change, Human Impact and Uncovered Mysteries