Chon-Lin Lee

TL;DR: First estimate of the sources, distribution, and risk presented by emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) in coastal waters off southwestern Taiwan suggests discharge into coastal waters via ocean outfall pipes and rivers suggests codeine and ampicillin have significant pollution risk quotients (RQ>1), indicating potentially high risk to aquatic organisms in coastal Waters.

TL;DR: Measurements of humic like fluorescence suggested that the conformation of colloids could change over time as a result of dissociation of the iron-humic associations, consistent with the concept that iron in coastal waters is strongly but reversibly bound to humic substances and therefore may be available for complexation by siderophore-type ligands released by microorganisms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed copper, zinc, lead, iron, nickel, chromium and cadmium concentrations in surficial sediments sampled from major river estuaries, harbours and ocean outfall fields in southwestern Taiwan.

TL;DR: Principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis suggest PAHs in the sediments from the north-western shelf, and river and canyon sediments might be a pyrogenic product of coal and diesel-burning vehicles, while those of the south-eastern shelf may be petrogenic.

TL;DR: Three diagnostic ratios, 4, 6-C(2)D/3,6-C (2)P, PER/ summation operator PAH (perylene to summation operators PAH) and BaA/CHR (benzo(a)anthracene/chrysene), representing petrogenic, biogenic and pyrogenic origins, are found to be effective in differentiating and characterizing sediments among the groups in this study.