{"id":5,"date":"2016-09-19T11:53:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/aquatic-photo-biogeochemistry-remote-sensing-lab\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T09:15:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T14:15:45","slug":"aquatic-photo-biogeochemistry-remote-sensing-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fichot Lab at Boston University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our research is motivated by the urgent need to understand, predict and act upon the effects of human- and climate-driven perturbations on aquatic environments. <strong>Specifically, we\u00a0seek to model, quantify and understand processes regulating carbon biogeochemistry, water quality and sediment dynamics across the land-ocean continuum and assess their vulnerability to climate variability and human-driven changes.<\/strong> We develop cutting-edge techniques combining aquatic optics and environmental chemistry, and integrate them with experimental results and remote sensing into sophisticated data-informed modeling frameworks. Implementation of the models provides a mechanistic, quantitative, and holistic representation of the complex biogeochemical and geophysical interactions of the land and ocean, with the objective of understanding how they will respond to anthropogenic perturbations.<\/p>\n<p>Our research typically combines field work, laboratory analyses and experiments, remote-sensing data analysis and modeling. Currently, we can divide our research into five <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/research\/\">core research themes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/research\/#photochem\">Aquatic photochemistry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/research\/#uvvis\">UV-visible imaging spectroscopy of inland and coastal\u00a0waters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/research\/#landocean\">Cycling of terrigenous organic carbon along the land-ocean continuum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/research\/#sediment\">Suspended sediment dynamics at the land-water interface<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/research\/#seagrass\">Seagrass habitat suitability<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our research is motivated by the urgent need to understand, predict and act upon the effects of human- and climate-driven perturbations on aquatic environments. Specifically, we\u00a0seek to model, quantify and understand processes regulating carbon biogeochemistry, water quality and sediment dynamics across the land-ocean continuum and assess their vulnerability to climate variability and human-driven changes. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12515,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/fichotlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}