The ecosystem-based management of national estuarine and marine coastal resources is the NOAA's strategic plan focuses. This requires better understanding of the natural and anthropogenic stresses that change the ecosystems. We investigated biogeochemistry of carbon, heavy metals and trace elements in the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The specific goals are to investigate the scientific background baseline of C, heavy metals and trace elements in the Grand Bay ecosystems and to study the bioavailability and bioaccumulation of mercury and arsenic in the major seafood production in the Grand Bay. We have taken 120 special soil and sediment samples representing both background level and potential industrial areas to determine As, Hg, Cd, Ni, Pb, C etc. A series of sets of seafood samples will be taken from the area to examine the potential effects of recent BP oil leakage on accumulation of As and Hg in seafoods.

Biogeochemistry of carbon, heavy metals, and trace elements in the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

245th National Meeting (2013)

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