Christian Sanders is an Associate Professor in coastal wetland biogeochemistry at the

National Marine Science Centre, Southern Cross University, Australia. A/Professor Sanders’ current research interests are in three broad areas: 1) Climate change and sea level rise as related to the coastal wetland carbon, nutrient and trace metal cycling; 2) Using uranium and thorium series radionuclides as tracers of mangrove, saltmarsh and seagrass ecosystem processes; and 3) Submarine groundwater discharge as a source of carbon, nutrients and trace metals to coastal ecosystems.