Transport and Transfer Rates in Waters of the Continental Shelf 



Biscaye, P.E. 



$637,000 



Columbia University 



Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory 



C: 914-359-2900 



Energy-related pollutants are expected to have maximum impacts on our coastal zones, where the amount of water 

 for dilution is limited, but where the productivity of food for man is highest. The project objective is to understand 

 and quantify processes that transport pollutants and remove them from, or put them into, the pathways leading back 

 to man. Studies include: (1) processes associated with suspended solids; (2) processes associated with sediments as 

 sinks and sources; and (3) spreading of water characteristics and species in solution, to determine sources of con- 

 tinental shelf waters and the processes changing their contaminants. 



Continental Shelf Processes Affecting the Oceanography of 

 South Atlantic Bight 



Pietrafesa, LJ. 



$169,000 



North Carolina State University 



Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences 



C: 919-737-3721 



The objective of this project is to identify, characterize, and quantify physical processes important to the flux of 

 chlorophyll on the Mid-Atlantic Bight shelf, the flux of particulate matter across the shelf, and the resuspension of 

 bottom sediments and particles. Current meter data will be used to establish scales of variability along shore. Spa- 

 tial and temporal variability of the shelf-slope front are determined using current meter and thermistor strings. 

 Chlorophyll flux estimates are determined by integration of current meter and fluorometer data. 



Coastal Ocean Margins Program A8 December 1988 



