Product Description

Interest in marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is very high because it plays an important role in oceanic and global carbon cycling, which in turn impacts weather. Understanding the processes involved in the transformations of carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, and other major elements in the oceans has been a primary goal of marine biogeochemists and oceanographers over the past decade.

This book, in 16 chapters with over 170 figures and tables, reports on the major advances in this area by a distinguished group of international chemical and biological oceanographers. Additionally, it focuses on the role of DOM in elemental cycling - where the greatest informational need currently exists.

Biological cycling of the major elements through DOM is assessed throughout, with particular emphasis on the role of marine microbes as active agents in the processing of this material
The ocean science community's advances for inclusion of DOM in both ecosystem and global circulation models are evaluated

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #901935 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-06
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.68" h x 6.36" w x 9.26" l, 2.78 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 774 pages

Review
"The book, without exception authoritative and up-to-date, impressed me in a number of ways ... a great credit to the editors and their team of authors"
--Limnology & Oceanography Bulletin, Sept 2003

"...the definitive, authoritative reference work on the chemistry and ecology of marine DOM."
--Don L. Rice, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.

"...essential reading and a valuable reference book for marine scientists from a wide number of disciplines...Hansell and Carlson are to be congratulated ..."
-P. J. LeB. Williams, School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, U.K.

"...an excellent textbook...as well as an outstanding reference text for researchers...both informative and interesting..."
--EGS NEWSLETTER, January 2003

Book Info
Reports on major advances in this area by a distinguished group of international chemical and biological oceanographers. Additionally, it focuses on the role of DOM in elemental cyclingwhere the greatest informational need currently exists.

From the Back Cover
"Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is the soil of the sea - a large, biochemically resistant reservoir of organic matter providing a substrate for life, and a source for nutrient regeneration, ion exchange capacity, light and heat absorption, and so on. Marine DOM, however, is much less conspicuous than terrestrial soil. It is, in fact, nearly invisible. In this book, Hansell and Carlson and the many contributing authors tell the story of making DOM, the soil of the sea, visible."
-From the Foreword by Hugh W. Ducklow, School of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary

Praise For This Volume
"Hansell and Carlson have assembled a team of international experts to produce the definitive, authoritative reference work on the chemistry and ecology of marine DOM. Anyone requiring a key to the literature of marine organic geochemistry and contemporary DOM research should have this volume within easy reach!"
-Donald L. Rice, Chemical Oceanography Program, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.

"...essential reading and a valuable reference book for marine scientists from a wide number of disciplines-chemists, microbiologists and specialists in optics of natural waters. Hansell and Carlson are to be congratulated for their vision of the structure of the book and its timing, and the authors for thoroughness of coverage in the chapters.
-Peter J. LeB. Williams, School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, U.K.