Santa Monica Bay Research on Oxygen Minimum

This summer our group successfully finished field work in the Santa Monica Basin to study the potential spreading of the Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ). The research is funded through a USC Sea Grant project (PIs: Will Berelsen, USC and Tina Treude, UCLA) and a UCLA Faculty Research Grand. We studied the water column and sampled sediments for biogeochemical analyzes along a transect from 70 to 900 m water depth using a CTD and a multicorer on board the R/V YELLOWFIN (Southern California Marine Institute). Students from a UCLA Fiat Lux course (teacher: Tina Treude) and from the Mt. San Antonio College (teacher: Tania Anders) joined some of the trips to become engaged in ocean research.

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