Table of Contents 



OCEAN MARGINS PROGRAM DESCRIPTION 1 



INTRODUCTION 4 



EXCHANGE STUDIES 7 



I. OBJECTIVE 7 



n. COMPONENT STUDIES AND RATIONALE 7 



A. Shelf/estuaries Exchanges 7 



B. Lateral Fluxes - Cross-shelf And Shelf-slope Exchanges 8 



C. Transport In Canyons 9 



D. Alongshelf Transport 9 



E. Vertical Transport 10 



F. Burial 10 



G. Air/sea Exchange 11 



ni. METHODOLOGIES 11 



A. Moorings And Remote Sensing 11 



B. Cruise-based Measurements 13 



TRANSFORMATION STUDIES 23 



I. OBJECTIVE 23 



II. COMPONENT STUDIES AND RATIONALE 23 



A. Primary Production 23 



B. Respiration 24 



C. Heterotrophic Bacterial Production 24 



D. Geochemical Tracers of Organic Matter Transformations 25 



E. Zooplankton Grazing and Production 26 



F. Production of DOC 27 



G. Transformations of Detrital POC 28 



H. Mineral Dissolution and Precipation Reactions Rates 29 



m. METHODOLOGY 29 



A. Primary Production 30 



B. Respiration 31 



C. Organic Carbon Preservation 32 



D. Bacterial Production 33 



E. Geochemical Tracers of Organic Matter Transformations 35 



F. Consumer Biomass Production and Grazing 36 



G. Production of DOC 37 



H. Production and Transformations of Detrital POC 38 



APPENDIX: Contributing Ocean Margin Program Investigators 40 



