Exploring New Frontiers in Marine Radioisotope Tracing – Adapting to New Opportunities and Challenges
Radioisotopes have been used in earth and environmental sciences for over 150 years and provide unique tools to study environmental processes in great detail from a cellular level through to an oceanic basin scale. These nuclear techniques have been employed to understand coastal and marine ecosyste...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:ec1b75be6c774e4da4d770b14fe3d752 2023-05-15T17:51:36+02:00 Exploring New Frontiers in Marine Radioisotope Tracing – Adapting to New Opportunities and Challenges Tom Cresswell Marc Metian Nicholas S. Fisher Sabine Charmasson Roberta L. Hansman Wokil Bam Christian Bock Peter Wolfgang Swarzenski 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00406 https://doaj.org/article/ec1b75be6c774e4da4d770b14fe3d752 EN eng Frontiers Media S.A. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2020.00406/full https://doaj.org/toc/2296-7745 2296-7745 doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.00406 https://doaj.org/article/ec1b75be6c774e4da4d770b14fe3d752 Frontiers in Marine Science, Vol 7 (2020) radionuclides radiotracers radioecology ecosystem condition marine coastal Science Q General. Including nature conservation geographical distribution QH1-199.5 article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00406 2022-12-31T16:32:38Z Radioisotopes have been used in earth and environmental sciences for over 150 years and provide unique tools to study environmental processes in great detail from a cellular level through to an oceanic basin scale. These nuclear techniques have been employed to understand coastal and marine ecosystems via laboratory and field studies in terms of how aquatic organisms respond to environmental stressors, including temperature, pH, nutrients, metals, organic anthropogenic contaminants, and biological toxins. Global marine issues, such as ocean warming, deoxygenation, plastic pollution, ocean acidification, increased duration, and intensity of toxic harmful algal blooms (HABs), and coastal contamination are all impacting marine environments, thereby imposing various environmental and economic risks. Being able to reliably assess the condition of coastal and marine ecosystems, and how they may respond to future disturbances, can provide vital information for society in the sustainable management of their marine environments. This paper summarizes the historical use of radiotracers in these systems, describes how existing techniques of radioecological tracing can be developed for specific current environmental issues and provides information on emerging issues that would benefit from current and new radiotracer methods. Current challenges with using radioecological tracers and opportunities are highlighted, as well as opportunities to maximize the application of these methods to greatly increase the ability of environmental managers to conduct evidence-based management of coastal and marine ecosystems. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Frontiers in Marine Science 7 |
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Radioisotopes have been used in earth and environmental sciences for over 150 years and provide unique tools to study environmental processes in great detail from a cellular level through to an oceanic basin scale. These nuclear techniques have been employed to understand coastal and marine ecosystems via laboratory and field studies in terms of how aquatic organisms respond to environmental stressors, including temperature, pH, nutrients, metals, organic anthropogenic contaminants, and biological toxins. Global marine issues, such as ocean warming, deoxygenation, plastic pollution, ocean acidification, increased duration, and intensity of toxic harmful algal blooms (HABs), and coastal contamination are all impacting marine environments, thereby imposing various environmental and economic risks. Being able to reliably assess the condition of coastal and marine ecosystems, and how they may respond to future disturbances, can provide vital information for society in the sustainable management of their marine environments. This paper summarizes the historical use of radiotracers in these systems, describes how existing techniques of radioecological tracing can be developed for specific current environmental issues and provides information on emerging issues that would benefit from current and new radiotracer methods. Current challenges with using radioecological tracers and opportunities are highlighted, as well as opportunities to maximize the application of these methods to greatly increase the ability of environmental managers to conduct evidence-based management of coastal and marine ecosystems. |
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Tom Cresswell Marc Metian Nicholas S. Fisher Sabine Charmasson Roberta L. Hansman Wokil Bam Christian Bock Peter Wolfgang Swarzenski |
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Tom Cresswell Marc Metian Nicholas S. Fisher Sabine Charmasson Roberta L. Hansman Wokil Bam Christian Bock Peter Wolfgang Swarzenski |
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Exploring New Frontiers in Marine Radioisotope Tracing – Adapting to New Opportunities and Challenges |
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Exploring New Frontiers in Marine Radioisotope Tracing – Adapting to New Opportunities and Challenges |
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Exploring New Frontiers in Marine Radioisotope Tracing – Adapting to New Opportunities and Challenges |
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Exploring New Frontiers in Marine Radioisotope Tracing – Adapting to New Opportunities and Challenges |
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Exploring New Frontiers in Marine Radioisotope Tracing – Adapting to New Opportunities and Challenges |
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exploring new frontiers in marine radioisotope tracing – adapting to new opportunities and challenges |
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