Facilities Urban and Coastal Impacts Project sources much of its field-skills from the marine geochemistry laboratory where a variety of techniques have been developed to conduct oceanographic and biogeochemical analyses at sea or in portable field laboratories. Facilities include the following. Continuous geochemical profiling of petroleum and sewage hydrocarbons with gas chromatographic techniques. Benthic chambers and measurements of benthic fluxes of oxygen, nutrients and metals. Pore water analyses and bioavailability estimates of nutrients and heavy metals in sediments.
Sediment analyses such as grain size, mineralogy, calcium carbonate and organic carbon contents.
Bathymetric and seismic surveys for substrate mapping.