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| Information From Skeletons: Carbonate Geochemistry and Sedimentology
People: Carbonate Geochemistry and Sedimentology Group Dr. Abigail M. Smith ( Marine
Science) Students: Student
Research, Carbonate Geochemistry and Sedimentology MSc Students
Projects: Carbonate Geochemistry and Sedimentology Group Bryozoan carbonate: a temperate record of seawater chemistry-- Dr. Abigail M. Smith, Dr. Marcus M. Key (Dickinson College, Pennsylvania) Age of a temperate reef -- how fast do large erect bryozoan colonies produce carbonate? -- Dr. Abigail M. Smith, Dr. Marcus M. Key (Dickinson College, Pennsylvania), others Ultrastructure and optical properties of Haliotis iris shell and pearls -- Blair Gray, PhD student Carbonate production, preservation and budget of Halimeda (Chlorophyta: Bryopsidales) on reefs in Fiji -- Oliver Gussmann, PhD student Recording the Otago shelf environment in bryozoan carbonate -- Kate Steger and Dr. Abigail M. Smith Subtidal serpulid reefs in Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island -- Dr. Abigail M. Smith in conjunction with the Department of Conservation Early sea-floor processes and their effects on temperate carbonate deposits -- Dr. Abigail M. Smith, Professor Cam S. Nelson (University of Waikato) Recording sea floor conditions in oyster carbonate – Ellen McCracken, MSc student Spaces among the bryozoans: epifauna in the Otago bryozoan meadows
– Anna Wood, MSc student
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Shell-producing
organisms which live in the sea may record aspects of their environment
in their skeletal carbonate. This Research Group explores aspects
of the cool-water carbonate budget -- production, geochemistry,
and destruction of biogenic carbonate on the temperate shelf. We
are looking at the potential of different marine taxa (especially
bryozoans) as geochemical "thermometers," the fate of
marine carbonate in temperate shelf sediments, and overall growth
and production rates for a variety of skeletal taxa, both tropical
and temperate. 
