Contribution of halides to photochemical reactions in estuaries and coastal waters
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Photochemical reactions may serve to mediate natural processes and contaminant degradation in estuaries and oceans. While research into aquatic photochemistry has focused on freshwater-relevant pathways, the impact of high halide concentrations in saline waters—the primary characteristic distinguishing seawater from freshwater—on photochemical processes has received little attention. This dissertation characterizes how halides in seawater alter indirect photochemical reactions by (i) enabling the production of seawater-specific reactive intermediates such as halogen radicals and (ii) by impacting photoproduced reactive intermediates common between fresh and saline waters (e.g. excited triplet state dissolved organic matter, hydroxyl radical). This dissertation also discusses the implications of these altered photochemical processes for biogeochemical processes (e.g. the sulfur cycle) and contaminant degradation (e.g. algal toxins) in coastal and estuarine waters.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Parker, Kimberly Marie |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Mitch, William A |
| Thesis advisor | Mitch, William A |
| Thesis advisor | Boehm, Alexandria |
| Thesis advisor | Luthy, Richard G |
| Advisor | Boehm, Alexandria |
| Advisor | Luthy, Richard G |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kimberly Marie Parker. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Kimberly Marie Parker
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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