What is Biogeochemistry?
| 27-11-2024 01:39 | |
| Im a BM★★★★☆ (1310) |
<--- Click on "sealover" (to the left of the arrow) It will open the "sealover" profile page. The "Last 10 posts:" shows ten biogeochemistry-related threads. Any of them can be opened with a click. --------------------------------------------------------- Biogeochemistry is a relatively new field of science. I was among the first generation of graduate students formally trained as "biogeochemists". Applied biogeochemistry is at the heart of needed environmental remediation. A magic moment: January 20, 1988 Biogeochemistry is awesomely COOL! Take one magic moment, for example. In January, 1988, I was helping write the new grant proposal. We wanted to justify to the National Science Foundation why they should provide additional funding for the NSF-funded acidic deposition ("acid rain") research project in progress. We had been examining the role of organic anions, particularly those of phenol carboxylic acids such as tannins, in forest soil biogeochemistry. My master's thesis research was specifically about how acidic deposition influenced the solubility and behavior of phenol carboxylic anions in forest floor leachate. I was compiling a simple list. They provide cation exchange capacity (CEC). They ameliorate aluminum toxicity. They facilitate retention of nutrient cations such as calcium and magnesium. They maintain nitrogen in a form that cannot be lost from the ecosystem. They prevent phosphorus fixation and release "fixed" phosphorus in soil. Then it hit me. LIKE A BOLT OF LIGHTENING! All of these were feedbacks that benefitted the plants that produced them. HOLY COW! BIOGEOCHEMISTRY IS EFFING AWESOME!!! It would take another seven years before the discovery finally made a big splash in the journal NATURE. The joy of that discovery gave me some insight into why Archimedes went running naked into the street shouting "Eureka!" The most relevant posts of this thread are compiled, beginning half way down page 3 |
| 27-11-2024 03:52 | |
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