大连湾沉积物-水界面BAP 交换通量的影响因素

利用实验室培养法研究了不同因素对大连湾沉积物-水界面间生物可利用磷(BAP)交换通量的影响,并利用实验室培养法和间隙水浓度梯度法估算了大连湾已疏浚区和疏浚点邻近海域沉积物-水界面BAP的交换通量.结果表明,随着上覆水pH和温度的增加,BAP由沉积物向水体释放量逐渐增加;灭菌和贫氧条件下,也会导致沉积物BAP的释放量增加;上覆水中磷酸盐浓度的升高会导致BAP由沉积物向水体释放通量降低,且随着上覆水磷酸盐浓度的不断升高,BAP逐渐转化为由水体向沉积物中扩散.实验室培养法和间隙水浓度梯度法测定结果均显示,受到疏浚工程的影响,大连湾疏浚点邻近海域沉积物-水界面BAP的年均通量大于已疏浚区.不同季节,大连湾沉积物-水界面BAP的交换通量有所不同,表现为夏季最高,冬季最低.但由于受疏浚活动的影响,冬季疏浚点邻近海域沉积物-水界面BAP的交换通量也维持在较高水平.     

河口污染沉积物中生金属释放与迁移的围隔生态系研究

利用围隔式生态实验装置研究了加拿大Ｆａｌｓｅ河口污染沉积物中重金属Ｐｂ、Ｚｎ、Ｃｄ、Ｃｕ在海水环境中的行为。实验模拟了４种环境条件：（１）高生产力;（２）低生产力;（３）高悬浮物含量;（４）还原环境,结果表明,污染沉积中重金属在海水环境中的行为既取决于元素自身性质,亦受外界环境条件制约,还原环境能抑制重金属的释放,有助于体系中原有的重金属清降出水柱,低生产力条件下,Ｐｄ、Ｚｎ表现出释放行为,而高生产力和高悬浮物含量条件下,Ｐｄ、Ｚｎ表现出先释放后迁移,而Ｃｄ、Ｃｕ则呈现出相反的图象。研究了实验期间４种重金属释放与迁移的净通量,表明氧化条件下Ｃｕ、Ｚｎ净释放通量比Ｃｄ、Ｐｂ高１～２个量级。研究表明,添加粘土及向还原环境倾倒均有助于减轻污染沉积物倾倒后重金属的二次污染。     

海水pH对疏浚物中重金属释放的影响

对厦门员当湖污染疏浚物中的Ｃｄ，Ｃｕ和Ｐｂ在不同ｐＨ的天然海水中溶出的模拟研究结果表明：在ｐＨ为５．０，６．５，８．３条件下，疏浚物中的Ｃｄ，Ｃｕ，Ｐｂ的释放率分别为８０％－９４％，４％－９％和１．０％－２．２％；在相同条件下，Ｃｄ，Ｃｕ，Ｐｂ的释放量（释放量）均随ｐＨ值增大而减少，释放量的顺序为Ｃｄ＞Ｃｕ＞Ｐｂ。讨论了ｐＨ对释放作用的影响及释放过程所遵循的动力学规律。     

人工航道疏浚对近岸沉积的影响——以葫芦岛港为例

航道疏浚是海岸带人类活动的重要形式之一,对近岸海洋环境有着重要的影响。本研究以葫芦岛航道疏浚为例,通过X射线衍射物相分析、放射性同位素分析和激光粒度分析等方法,对航道疏浚区及邻近海域沉积物进行了系统的研究,结果表明:(1)航道疏浚产生的沉积物与现在海底沉积物在粒度组成、黏土矿物组合和210 Pb、137 Cs放射性强度等方面具有显著的差异,可以作为示踪航道疏浚物质扩散和影响范围的指标;(2)葫芦岛海域的航道疏浚物在潮流的作用下沿西北和西南2个方向扩散,不同程度地加入到表层沉积物中,个别地方疏浚沉积物直接覆盖到原沉积物之上,导致海底原地沉积物属性的改变。     

厦门东渡港疏浚沉积物的吸附和溶出研究

海洋沉积物中金属的溶出和吸附的研究对了解金属在海洋中的行为和污染问题,有重要的意义。本文从动力学角度研究了厦门东渡港疏浚沉积物中重金属的溶出和富集,考察了沉积物—海水间重金属的交换作用。     

三亚湾沉积物中磷释放的初步研究

利用现场调查和室内模拟试验的结果,探讨了三亚湾表层沉积物中磷的形态与磷释放的关系以及环境条件变化对该湾沉积物中磷释放的影响。结果表明,三亚湾海水总磷(TP)中以总溶解磷(TDP)为主,总溶解磷约占总磷61%,其余形态磷约占总磷30.7%。初步计算了三亚湾沉积物 海水界面间DIP、TDP和TP的扩散通量分别为15.31、64.99和330.50μmol·(m2·d)-1。沉积物总磷(PT)中以无机结合态磷(PIN)为主,无机结合态磷约占沉积物总磷70.7%,其余形态磷约占沉积物总磷33.3%。沉积物中磷释放取决于磷的形态,总磷、有机结合态磷(POR)和无机结合态磷在沉积物磷的释放中所起的作用较大,其余形态的磷所起的作用较小。温度、盐度和pH的变化对沉积物中磷释放均产生一定的影响,相关分析表明,TDP和DIP这2种形态磷均具有相似的释放规律。     

厦门港湾潮间带沉积物中汞的赋存形态及其释放动力学

所研究的沉积物样品采自福建省厦门市的港湾潮问带地区,选择了10μg／dm’的汞标准使用液对采集回来的沉积物样品进行了预污染处理,利用预污染后的沉积物样品,在实验室中进行了一系列的汞释放动力学实验．实验结果表明,汞的释放量较低,达到释放平衡时的释放量小于5μg／kg,释放过程可分为2个阶段：前8h为快速释放阶段,之后为慢速释放阶段,大约在24h达释放平衡．采用了Tessier五步提取法对未污染过的沉积物原样及进行过预污染处理的沉积物样品进行了汞的形态分析,结果表明通过污染实验吸附到沉积物上的汞的各形态含量大小顺序为：HgS为主的惰性汞〉单质汞〉盐酸溶无机汞及甲基汞〉有机结合、螯合态汞〉水溶态、交换态等活性汞．     

河口污染沉积物中重金属释放与迁移的围隔生态系研究

利用围隔式生态实验装置研究了加拿大False河口污染沉积物中重金属Pb、Zn、Cd、Cu在海水环境中的行为。实验模拟了 4种环境条件 :( 1)高生产力 ;( 2 )低生产力 ;( 3 )高悬浮物含量 ;( 4 )还原环境。结果表明 ,污染沉积物中重金属在海水环境中的行为既取决于元素自身性质 ,亦受外界环境条件制约。还原环境能抑制重金属的释放 ,有助于体系中原有的重金属清除出水柱。低生产力条件下 ,Pb、Zn表现出释放行为 ,而高生产力和高悬浮物含量条件下 ,Pb、Zn表现出先释放后迁移 ,而Cd、Cu则呈现出相反的图象。研究了实验期间 4种重金属释放与迁移的净通量 ,表明氧化条件下Cu、Zn净释放通量比Cd、Pb高 1～ 2个量级。研究表明 ,添加粘土及向还原环境倾倒均有助于减轻污染沉积物倾倒后重金属的二次污染     

渤海湾北部海域沉积物重金属Cu、Zn释放及动力学研究

以渤海湾北部海域沉积物为研究对象,分别经重金属Cu、Zn污染后,研究了在不同pH和不同粒度条件下Cu、Zn的释放能力,同时研究了在特定酸性条件下Cu、Zn的释放动力学。研究结果表明,重金属Cu、Zn从污染沉积物中的释放,主要是在酸性条件下发生,并且释放量随pH的升高而迅速降低。粒度越大,释放量越大。释放能力Zn>Cu。重金属Cu、Zn的释放动力学过程可分为两个阶段:快速释放阶段和释放平衡阶段。Cu、Zn释放动力学过程可以用Elovich方程和Freundlich修正式较好的描述。     

宁波及其邻近海域沉积物释放耗氧有机物（COD）的初步研究

本文通过对城市污水纳污海区沉积物样品释放有机物的研究，初步揭示了沉积物释放耗氧有机物（ＣＯＤ）的一般规律。研究表明宁波海域沉积物释放ＣＯＤ的范围在０．１５×１０－３～０．８０×１０－３之间，释放速率平均为１０３．９ｍｇ／（ｍ２．ｄ）；舟山沈家门附近海域沉积物释放ＣＯＤ速率平均为２５３．１ｍｇ（ｍ２·ｄ）。沉积物释放ＣＯＤ的量与沉积物中有机质的含量成正比，而其释放速率与沉积物有机质的含量关系不大。     

Microbial Biomass and Organic Nutrients in the Deep-Sea Sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin

In order to assess the impact of deep-sea mining on the in situ benthic life, we measured the microbial standing stock and concentration of organic nutrients in the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin in the Indian pioneer area. Sediments were collected using box core and grab samples during September 1996. The total bacterial numbers ranged from 10 10 -10 11 cells per g -1 dry weight sediment. There was a marginal decrease in the number of bacteria from surface to 30 cm depth, though the subsurface section registered a higher number than did the surface. The highest numbers were encountered at depths of 4-8 cm. The retrievable number of bacteria were two orders less in comparison with the direct total counts of bacteria. An almost homogeneous distribution of bacteria, total organic carbon, living biomass, and lipids throughout the depth of cores indicates active microbial and benthic processes in the deep sea sediments. On the other hand, a uniform distribution of total counts of bacteria, carbohydrates, and total organic carbon in all the cores indicates their stable nature and suggests that they can serve as useful parameters for long-term monitoring of the area after the benthic disturbance. Further studies on temporal variability in this region would not only verify the observed norms of distribution of these variables but would also help to understand restabilization processes after the simulated benthic disturbance.     

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中桩周土强度弱化研究

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中,桩周土体受到强烈扰动而发生强度弱化,掌握桩周土体强度弱化规律对于准确预测打桩过程、保证工程安全具有重要意义。为研究土体强度弱化规律,开展了环剪试验模拟打桩对桩周土体的扰动,测试土体强度随剪切速率的变化规律,建立了描述土体强度弱化规律的拟合公式,引入到打桩分析软件中。研究结果表明：土体的强度折减程度不仅与土体本身的性质有关还受到土体的埋深和剪切速率的影响,埋深越深土体强度折减程度越低,剪切速率越高土体强度折减越高,在打桩分析中可采用这里推荐的线性折减方法来模拟不同深度处土体强度的折减规律。     

Geoacoustic Inversion via Genetic Algorithm and Its Application to Manganese Sediment Identification

An acoustic inversion method using a wide-band signal and two near field receivers is proposed and applied to multiple layered seabed models including a manganese sediment. The inversion problem can be formulated into a probabilistic model comprised of signals, a forward model, and additive noise. The forward model simulates wide-band signals, such as chirp signals, and is chosen to be the source-waveletconvolution plane wave modeling method. The wavelet matching technique, using weighted least-squares fitting, estimates the sediment sound-speed and thickness on which determination of the possible numerical ranges for a priori uniform distribution is based. The genetic algorithm is applied to a global optimization problem to find a maximum a posteriori solution for determined a priori search space. Here the object function is defined by an L 2 norm of the difference between measured and modeled signals. Not only the marginal pdf but also its statistics are calculated by numerical evaluation of integrals using the samples selected during importance sampling process of the genetic algorithm.     

A Review of Some Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Mining

This article reviews information recently available from existing marine and coastal mining for responses to environmental issues affecting marine mining at different depths. It is particularly but not exclusively concerned with those issues affecting seabed biodiversity impact and recovery. Much information has been gathered in the past 10 years from shallow mining operations for construction aggregate, diamonds, and gold, from coastal mines discharging tailings to shallow and deep water, and from experimental deep mining tests. The responses to issues identified are summarized in a series of eight tables intended to facilitate site-specific consideration. Since impacts can spread widely in the surface mixing layer SML, and can affect the biologically productive euphotic zone, the main issues considered arise from the depth of mining relative to the SML of the sea. Where mining is below the SML, the issue is whether it is environmentally better to bring the extraction products to the surface vessel for processing (and waste discharge), or to process the extraction products as much as possible on the seabed. Responses to the issues need to be sitespecific, and dependent on adequate preoperational environmental impact and recovery prediction. For deep tailings disposal from a surface vessel, there are four important environmental unknowns: (1) the possible growth of "marine snow" (bacterial flocs) utilizing the enormous quantities of fine tailings particles (hundreds or thousands of metric tons per day) as nuclei for growth, (2) the possibility that local keystone plankton and nekton species may migrate diurnally down to and beyond the depth of deep discharge and hence be subjected to tailings impact at depth, (3) the burrow-up capability of deep benthos and their ability to survive high rates of tailings deposition, and (4) the pattern and rate of dispersion of a tailings density current through the deep water column from discharge point to seabed. Actions to obtain relevant information in general and site-specifically are suggested.     

Increased Particle Fluxes at the INDEX Site Attributable to Simulated Benthic Disturbance

Particle fluxes were measured 7 m above the sea bottom during the predisturbance, disturbance, and postdisturbance periods by using time series sediment traps attached to seven deep-sea moorings deployed in the INDEX experiment site in the Central Indian Basin. The predisturbance particle fluxes varied between 22.3 to 55.1 mg m -2 day -1 . Increased and variable particle fluxes were recorded by the sediment traps during the disturbance period. The increase observed was 0.5 to 4 times more than the background predisturbance fluxes. The increases in particle fluxes (~4 times) recorded by the sediment trap located in the southwestern direction (DMS-1) were the greatest, which could be the result of preferential movement of resuspended particles generated during the deep-sea benthic disturbance along the general current direction prevailing in this area during the experimental period. Also, the traps located closer to the disturbance area recorded greater fluxes than did the traps far away, across the Deep Sea Sediment Resuspension System path. This variability in recorded particle fluxes by the traps around the disturbance area clearly indicates that physical characteristics such as grain size and density of the resuspended particles produced during the disturbance had an important effect on particle movement. The postdisturbance measurements during ~5 days showed a reduction in particle fluxes of ~50%, indicating rapid particle settlement.     

Phylogenetic diversity and phenotypic characterization of cultivable bacterioplankton isolated from polar oceans

A set of 27 marine planktonic bacteria isolated from the polar regions was characterized by 16S rDNA sequencing and physiological and biochemical testing. More than half of these bacteria were positive for caseinase, gelatinase and 13-glucosidase, and could utilize glucose, maltose or malic acid as carbon source for cell growth. Twelve isolates expressed nitrate reduction activities. Except for one antarctic isolate BSwlO175 belonging to Actinobacteria phylum, these isolates were classified as γ-Proteobacteria, suggesting that γ-Proteobacteria dominated in cultivable marine bacterioplankton at both poles. Genus Pseudoalteromonas was the predominant group in the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea, and genus ShewaneUa dominated in cultivable bacterioplankton in the Prydz Bay. With sequence similarities above 97%, genus Psychrobacter was found at both poles. These 27 isolates were psychrotolerant, and significant 16S rDNA sequence similarities were found not only between arctic and antarctic marine bacteria （ 〉 99% ）, but also between polar marine bacteria and bacteria from other aquatic environments （ ≥ 98.8% ）, including temperate ocean, deep sea, pond and lake, suggesting that in the polar oceans less temperature-sensitive bacteria may be cosmopolitan and have a bipolar, even global, distribution at the species level.     

Determination of In Situ Sediment Shear Strength from Advanced Piston Corer Pullout Forces

The advanced piston corer (APC) has been used by the Ocean Drilling Program since 1985 for recovering soft sediments from the ocean floor. The pullout force measured on extracting the core barrel from the sediment is shown to correlate with the average shear strength of the sediment core measured in the ship's laboratory. A simple rule of thumb is derived relating the shear strength of the sediment to the pullout force. Multiple APC holes at individual sites allow the consistency of the pullout measurements to be assessed. The effects of different operational procedures during APC coring are also explored. Although generally applicable, the correlation between pullout force and laboratory measurements of shear strength breaks down for some APC holes, possibly because of the disturbance of some sediment types during the APC coring process. A better understanding of the physical process of APC coring, and its effect on the properties of the sediment both inside and immediately outside the core barrel, would indicate what confidence can be put on the measurement of pullout force as a way of evaluating the in situ shear strength of deep sea sediments.     

Deep-Sea Sediment Compression Curves: Some Controlling Factors, Spurious Overconsolidation, Predictions, and Geophysical Reproduction

Oedometer tests have been carried out on 70 undisturbed surficial clays (at approximately 250 mm below the mudline), mostly collected by free-fall corers from sites widely scattered throughout the deep-sea North Atlantic. Acoustic measurements were also made, initially on contiguous samples and ultimately on the same sample using a geophysically instrumented oedometer which also collected electrical resistivity data. Apart from those quiescent areas below the carbonate compensation depth, such as north of the West Indies where very fine clays exist, most of the samples are silty clays whose geotechnical-geophysical properties are dependent on the type of clay minerals present (and their ability to take in moisture), the sand-size fraction, and the quantity of carbonate present. Thus the pure clays have high compressibilities which decrease on the addition of coarse particles, while the converse is true for the acoustic parameters, these increasing with the sand fraction. Using the notion of the intrinsic compression line for all samples, and comparison to it of the measured compression curves, it is clear that, contrary to some previously held ideas, most deep-sea clays are normally consolidated; the addition of carbonate has the effect of creating an open, stronger sediment skeleton. Interestingly, where information is available, the variation with depth of a sample's acoustic velocity follows the void ratio pressure relationship of the compression curve. This allows the construction of an in-situ sediment compression curve using the in-situ geophysical observations.