Application of surface analytical methods for hazardous situation in the Adriatic Sea: monitoring of organic matter dynamics and oil pollution
| Autor: | Nadica Ivošević DeNardis, Galja Pletikapić |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
lcsh:TD1-1066 03 medical and health sciences Hazardous waste Dissolved organic carbon Organic matter 14. Life underwater lcsh:Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering lcsh:Environmental sciences chemistry.chemical_classification lcsh:GE1-350 AFM chronoamperometry environmental status of seawater mucilage oil droplets organic matter characterization Scale (chemistry) lcsh:QE1-996.5 Environmental engineering lcsh:Geography. Anthropology. Recreation Geology Characterization (materials science) Visualization lcsh:Geology 030104 developmental biology chemistry lcsh:G 13. Climate action General Earth and Planetary Sciences Environmental science Seawater Nanometre |
| Zdroj: | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 31-44 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1684-9981 |
| Popis: | Surface analytical methods are applied to examine the environmental status of seawaters. The present overview emphasizes advantages of combining surface analytical methods, applied to a hazardous situation in the Adriatic Sea, such as monitoring of the first aggregation phases of dissolved organic matter in order to potentially predict the massive mucilage formation and testing of oil spill cleanup. Such an approach, based on fast and direct characterization of organic matter and its high-resolution visualization, sets a continuous-scale description of organic matter from micro- to nanometre scales. Electrochemical method of chronoamperometry at the dropping mercury electrode meets the requirements for monitoring purposes due to the simple and fast analysis of a large number of natural seawater samples enabling simultaneous differentiation of organic constituents. In contrast, atomic force microscopy allows direct visualization of biotic and abiotic particles and provides an insight into structural organization of marine organic matter at micro- and nanometre scales. In the future, merging data at different spatial scales, taking into account experimental input on micrometre scale, observations on metre scale and modelling on kilometre scale, will be important for developing sophisticated technological platforms for knowledge transfer, reports and maps applicable for the marine environmental protection and management of the coastal area, especially for tourism, fishery and cruiser trafficking. |
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