Advance in Removal of Organic Compounds from Water Environments and Sediments
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 2675
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Dear Colleagues,
Our research team is pleased to announce this Special Issue, which is devoted to the study of the suspended matter distribution and composition. This work is a part of the research program “Marine Ecosystems of the Siberian Arctic”, which was launched by the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2007 to study the natural systems of the Kara, Laptev and East Siberian Seas. For this reason, a unified methodological approach was applied to explore the ecosystem of the Arctic shelf zone and its current variability.
As suspended matter originates from numerous sources and can absorb various contaminants, studying its underlying mechanism is important for a comprehensive understanding of sedimentation processes and contaminant transport in marine ecosystems.
The variability in the distribution of suspended matter and its components was studied in the period from August 16 to September 20, 2018 (72nd cruise of the research vessel “Akademik Mstislav Keldysh”). The concentration, fluxes and composition of suspended matter were studied using filtration and sediment traps. These methods allowed for studying the sedimentation processes in various contexts, times and depths.
The suspended matter flux is determined by the amount of matter passing through an area unit per time unit (mg·m-2·d-1) and corresponds to the absolute sedimentary mass. The input of various components, including pollutants, into the surface layer of bottom sediments can be calculated on the basis of vertical fluxes of sedimentary matter.
According to the data we obtained, the concentration of suspended matter in surface seawater varied from 0.2 to 5.9 mg·l-1, with the maximum concentration found in the Blagopoluchiya Bay. Fluxes of particular and organic matter mainly increased towards the sea bottom (up to 13127 and 695 mg·m-2·d-1 accordingly). The terrigenous component prevailed over the autochthonous one in the composition of suspended and organic matter, as well as hydrocarbons.
Prof. Dr. Inna A. Nemirovskaya
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Keywords
- suspended matter
- fluxes
- bottom sediments
- carbon flux
- hydrocarbons
- Kara Sea
- Laptev Sea
- Ob River
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