Kay C. Vopel Current Work

National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
Gate 10, Silverdale Road, Hillcrest
Hamilton, New Zealand
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Kay C. Vopel

Current Work - Topics

At present, I am investigating

oxygen and hydrogen sulfide fluxes at mangrove peat walls (field study of chemoautotrophic ectosymbioses in cooperation with Prof. Joerg Ott, University of Vienna, Austria, and Prof. David Thistle, Florida State University, U.S.A.),
the cues for diel emergence of harpacticoid copepods (field study and experiments in a laboratory flume in cooperation with Professor David Thistle, Florida State University, U.S.A.),
photosynthetic performance of benthic microbial mats in permanently ice-covered lakes of Antarctica (field study in cooperation with Dr Ian Hawes, World Fish Center, and Associate Prof. Peter Doran, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A.),
effects of key bioturbators (brittle stars and heart urchins) on early diagenesis of coastal sediment (field study in cooperation with Prof. David Thistle, Florida State University, U.S.A.),
photosynthesis and nutrient cycling in epilithic mats of the stalked diatom Didymosphenia geminata (field and flume study in cooperation with Dr Scott Larned and Dr Bob Wilcock, NIWA, New Zealand),
suboxic mineralization of organic matter in sediments affected by long-line mussel farms off the coast of New Zealand (field and laboratory study in cooperation with Dr John Zeldis and Barb Hayden, NIWA, New Zealand),
effects of physical disturbance on solute concentration and flux in intertidal trace-metal contaminated sediment (field and flume study in collaboration with Conrad Pilditch, Waikato University, New Zealand, and Michael Ellwood, NIWA, New Zealand).