Craig McNeil         Senior Oceanographer         AIRS Department         Applied Physics Laboratory         University of Washington      Mark Altabet         UMass, Dartmouth      National Science Foundation    July 2007 – June 2009	We will evaluate the use of the Gas Tension Device (GTD) to detect denitrification signatures in Long Island Sound (and possibly Puget Sound) in conjunction with high precision mass-spectrometry dissolved gas measurements. Field work is planned for 2008/2009. Please check back for research updates.