Students from the Department of Marine Geosciences at RSMAS and the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale participated in a graduate-level class at the Little Darby Island Research Station in March 2017. The focus of the class was marine carbonate sediments and the chemical changes the sediments undergo once buried. Under the mentorship of Drs. Pamela Reid and Amanda Oehlert (RSMAS) and Noah Planavsky (Yale), the students collected cores from a variety of environments around Little Darby Island. They described and sub-sampled sediments and pore waters in the cores. The geochemistry of the pore water and sediment samples will be used to characterize the early marine diagenesis. The students are currently analyzing the samples in their respective laboratories in Miami, FL and New Haven, CT, and plan on reconvening this fall to interpret the new data. Results will be used to speculate on the physical, chemical and biological processes that might be causing the geochemical changes. Student participants were Eric Bellefroid, Terry Tang, Boriana Kalderon-Asael, Philip Staudigel, Brandon Burke, and Brook Vitek.
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