IIA Flow and transport processes and monitoring in rivers and coastal waters
WATER AND ENVIRONMENT
- Under stratified conditions, most mixing processes are restricted to the surface layer, which is receiving a pollutant supply from river plumes
- The spatially integrated statistics of passive contaminant provides a methodology to deliver a description of key dilution processes in river dominated estuaries
- The use of salinity measurements of sea water dilution (during stable stratified condition) as an inverse process of a pollutant transport by river discharge in the near field
- Introducing the expected mass fraction (EMF) and its extension to EVF, provide a new dilution measure for analyzing contaminant plumes in estuaries
- Coastal water can be classified with hyper spectral imagers for overall clarity and presence of sediments, hydrocarbons, certain nutrients and sub-aquatic vegetation that may pose problems from riverine discharges
IIB Climate change effects in
coastal regions
IIC Ecotoxicological characterization of biologically active substances and complex samples from marine environment
- Understanding the interaction of environmental substances with basic
cellular detoxification and defense mechanisms in aquatic organisms; - Identification and characterization of biologically active substances from marine environment.
IID Biofilm research –
blue biotechnology
