Biogeochemistry Across Boundaries
About
The B.A.B. Lab at VIMS and W&M focuses on studying the processes (e.g., primary production, scavenging, degradation) that modulate trace element and organic carbon biogeochemistry across freshwater systems, coastal environments and the open ocean to gain a comprehensive understating of their cycling, fluxes, source-to-sink characterization and their role in the ecosystem.
News
Take a look at what is going on at B.A.B. Lab
🎉🎉 Welcome Athira Chakkalaparambil Rajendran and Victoria Grisson, the newest members of the B.A.B. Lab! This Fall, they will be starting their respective Ph.D. and M.S. programs.
🎉🎉 Our new paper “Shelf-basin connectivity drives dissolved Fe and Mn distributions in the western Arctic Ocean: A synoptic view into polar trace metal cycling” has been published. This paper showcases the grand effort and success of GEOTRACES international program in pursuing an unprecedent study on trace element biogeochemistry in the Arctic Ocean.
🎉🎉Our new paper “Control of particulate manganese (Mn) cycling in halocline Arctic Ocean waters by putative Mn‐oxidizing bacterial dynamics” has been published. This large-scale field study combines trace element analysis with microbial data to unravel the geochemistry of Mn in the Canadian Arctic Ocean.
🎉🎉The new paper, lead by collaborator Birgit Rogalla, “Continental and Glacial Runoff Fingerprints in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Inuit Nunangat Ocean” has been published. This study aims to provide a linkage between the terrestrial and marine environments, assessing the influence of freshwater inputs on biogeochemical cycles in the Canadian Arctic Ocean.
