Nutrients and Carbonate Chemistry Facility

AS-ALK2 Apollo SciTech Alkalinity Titrator.

AS-C3 Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Analyzer.

QuAAtro Auto-Analyser for Dissolved Inorganic Nutrient Analyses.

Shimadzu TOC-VCPN DOC and TDN analyser.

VINDTA 3C for Alkalinity and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon.

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About the Nutrients and Carbonate Chemistry Facility

This facility is located within the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the Waterfront Campus (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

We provide the following analysis for both internal (staff, student projects, and fieldcourses) and external customers:

Dissolved inorganic nutrients (Total Nitrate, Nitrite, Phosphate, and Silicate). Ammonium measurements are also available on request instead of Silicate measurements using the salicylate colorimetric method
Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) and Total Dissolved Nitrogen (TDN)
Total Alkalinity and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon (small volume samples analysis available)

The facility is equipped with the following instruments:

TOC-VCPN for Dissolved Organic Carbon and Total Dissolved Nitrogen analysis (Shimadzu)
QuAAtro 39 nutrient auto-analyser (Seal Analytical) for micromolar dissolved nutrient analysis
AS-ALK2 Alkalinity titrator and AS-C3 DIC analyser (Apollo SciTech) for small volume samples
VINDTA 3C for Alkalinity and DIC analysis (larger volumes, e.g. research cruise samples)

Professor

Research interests

Dr. Lam's research interest lies in the functional roles of microorganisms in biogeochemical cycling, particularly the nitrogen and carbon cycles, in diverse marine and aquatic systems. In collaboration with researchers inside and outside the university, her work integrates state-of-the-art molecular ecological techniques, stable isotopic analyses, process rate measurements, hypothesis-driven experimentation and modelling, to disentangle complex microbial interactions and their impacts on biogeochemical environments especially in the context of global change.
Current research topics include:
Shortcuts in the nitrogen cycle – novel pathways and microbial players for nitrogen remineralisation in the ocean’s twilight zoneMicrobial carbon remineralisation pathways and fluxes in the mesopelagic oceanUsing proteomics tools to disentangle active microbial nitrogen and carbon cycling processes in oceanic oxygen minimum zonesImportance of particle-associated microeukaryotes on the efficiency of oceanic biological carbon pumpMicrobial production and consumption pathways of greenhouse gases

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