Conference - Vienna, Austria
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in aquatic environments exhibits distinctive fluorescence properties as a result of absorption of high-energy photons by DOM molecules and re-emission of lower-energy photons at longer wavelengths. This inherent spectral property of DOM is successfully utilised in characterisation of DOM with excitation-emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectroscopy. Since its first applications to characterisation of marine and terrestrial DOM nearly 20 years ago, the method has become highly prominent in DOM studies including characterisation of DOM composition, fingerprinting of aquatic DOM fractions and determination of general water quality. Its increasing popularity has reflected in a constantly growing number of submitted papers to peer-reviewed journals (220 in 2012) and number of journal citations (3200 in 2012).
The purpose of the session is to evaluate the current state-of-the-art of aquatic DOM-EEM research, bring together the fluorescence spectroscopy research community and provide a platform for knowledge and best practice exchange. In particular there is a growing need to monitor the advances in application of fluorescence spectroscopy in characterisation of aquatic systems, understanding the origin, transformations and environmental fate of fluorophores in aquatic environments and identification of robust numerical and statistical tools for EEMs processing, deconvolution and modelling.
Organization: EGU 2014
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Sun, Apr 27, 2014 - Fri, May 02, 2014
Austria Centre Vienna
Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1, Vienna, Austria
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