Chemical Oceanography of Frontal Zones

Introduction.- Large-scale, persistent nutrient fronts of the world ocean: Impacts on biogeochemistry.- Colored dissolved organic matter in frontal zones.- Contamination by persistent organic pollutants and related compounds in deep-sea ecosystems along frontal zones around Japan.- Major nutrient fronts in the northeastern Atlantic – from the subpolar gyre to adjacent shelves.- The Pacific-Atlantic front in the East Siberian Sea of the Arctic Ocean.- Fronts and gradients in the northeastern Baltic Sea: a review.- Lateral and vertical mixing in the chemical frontal zones: the Kuroshio nutrient stream.- Observations of the coastal oceanic fronts in the northern South China Sea.- Front-driven physical-biogeochemical-ecological interactions in the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem.- Microplastic transport in the South China Sea.- Lagrangian methods to study fronts and pathways of marine litter in tidal basins.- The role of fronts and eddies in accumulating and influencing floating macro and microplastic dispersal.- Fate of mercury in the Subarctic Front of the North Pacific.- Biogeochemical oceanography and sedimentology of the Macquarie Ridge region, SW Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean.- Biochemical aspects of fronts and eddies of the Mediterranean Sea.- Microbial community and environmental chemistry in the hypoxic zone of the Changjiang River Estuary.