Name:	Professor Fauzi Mantoura
	Institution:	Plymouth Marine Lab
	Address:	(Current contact details) IAEA Marine Environment Laboratory 4 Quai Antoine 1er BP No 800 MC 98012 Monaco Cedex Principality of Monaco
	Telephone:	(+377)9797 7279
	Fax:	(+377)9797 7275
	E-Mail:	f.mantoura@iaea.org

I have developed and co-steered several EU-funded projects including European River Ocean System (EROS) based in the Western Mediterranean basin, and the Ocean Margin Exchange Experiment (OMEX) based in the Celtic Sea and Iberian Upwelling system in the NE Atlantic Ocean. I have also led a UNESCO team to Israel (Haifa), the Gaza Strip and West Bank to help develop a marine program for the Palestinians. During that visit I gave a lecture on Arabian Sea biogeochemical fluxes in Haifa. As a scientist of Palestinian origin, it is excellent to be collaborating with European and Israeli scientist in this time of Peace and reconciliation in the Middle East.

I am interested in the analytical chemistry and oceanography of organic carbon, compounds and nutrients and relating these to global biogeochemical fluxes of elements in contrasting oceanic regions. In CYCLOPS, my group will focus on the application of high temperature catalytic oxidation systems (HTCO) for the determination of DOC/N in the mesocosm perturbation experiments and during the Lagrangian PO4 addition experiments in the Eastern Mediterranean. We shall use HPLC to separate and determine the concentrations of chlorophylls a, b, c1, c2, and divinyl chlorophyll a and b, and several carotenoids to enable the chemotaxonomic budgetting of the phytobiomass to be made during the perturbation experiments. We would also like to use the opportunity to do Fe mapping studies since we believe Fe may be playing an important role in the phosphate losses in the E Mediterranean.

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