• Tracing terrestrial C via Rivers & SGD

• Natural C sequestration in the ocean

• Photochemical reaction of CDOM & FDOM

• Role of colloidal organic matter in marine system

*SGD: Submarine Groundwater Dishcarge

• Point- vs Non-point sources

• Groundwater pollution

• Aquaculture

• Municipal wastewater treatment plants

• Global warming and climate change

• Alien species invasion 

• Coastal pollution

• Green & Red tides

• Eutrophication

• Hypoxia ("Dead zone")

• Mixing and cycling of OM in a complex continental shelf area

• Long-range OM transport between system boundaries

• Terrestrial OM fluxes from rivers & SGD

• OM studies in "a Miniature Ocean"

*OM: organic matter