Fate of Dissolved Trace Metals in the Waters of Bahia Magdalena Lagoon, Baja California Sur, México.

ABSTRACT S.B. Sujitha; M.P. Jonathan; D.C. Escobedo-Urias; Fernando Aguirre-Bahena; S.K. Sarkar; Lorena Elizabeth Campos Villegas, and E. Gonzalez Gomez., 2018. Fate of dissolved trace metals in the waters of Bahia Magdalena lagoon, Baja California Sur, Mexico. In: Shim, J.-S.; Chun, I., and Lim, H.S. (eds.), Proceedings from the International Coastal Symposium (ICS) 2018 (Busan, Republic of Korea). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 85, pp. 431–435. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Concentrations of dissolved trace metals (Fe, Mn, Cr, Cu, Ni, Co, Zn, Cd, As) were determined in forty-one surface and forty bottom water samples procured from Bahia Magdalena lagoon, Baja California Sur, Mexico using an Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry. In-situ measurements of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and pH were also carried out in each station and high salinities classified the lagoon as Eurihaline. The region witness raised temperatures (avg. 28.92°C) due to their location in an arid s...