"Organic Carbon Budget for the Upper Slope of the Middle    Atlantic Bight"
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The investigators will construct a carbon budget for an                 upper slope region of the Middle Atlantic Bight.  Previous                      studies in this region led to the controversial hypothesis that                 export of organic carbon from plant productivity from                           continental margins represents a major pathway for transfer of                  CO2 from the atmosphere to the deep ocean. The source term for                  the organic carbon budget will be provided by a large number of                 primary productivity and sediment trap flux measurements to be                  obtained during a DOE-funded study of Shelf-Edge Exchange                       Processes.  This work will include independent approaches to                    evaluate the rate of organic carbon remineralization at the                     upper slope as well as the rate of organic carbon burial.                       Carbon fluxes determined in this study will help resolve the                    controversy regarding the importance to the global CO2 cycle of                 the transport of margin-derived organic carbon to the deep sea                  and will further provide a quantitative relationship between                    organic carbon fluxes and benthic ecosystem energy                              requirements.
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{'Code': '165000', 'Text': 'BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY'}
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