Environmental Change Research
Environmental change in brackish-water zones is controlled by a complex system encompassing short-term effects, including tidal cycles and changes in weather, and medium- to long-term effects such as global climate change and the history of human development. The processes of generation, decomposition and accumulation of organic matter in stagnant coastal lagoons form a part of the existing Ocean Anoxic Event model, operation of which has played an important role in the change of global systems throughout the history of the Earth.
The main aims of the Environmental Change Research section of ReCCLE are:
¥ Observation and analysis of the ongoing processes of environmental change
¥ Understanding the processes and mechanisms of preservation of environmental information in bottom sediments, with an emphasis on hydrocarbon accumulation related to global environmental change
¥ Decoding and analysis of long-term environmental change, based on the records contained in bottom sediments