Abstract
Recent studies based on quasar emission lines suggest that quasar environments are typicaly metal rich, with metallicities near or above the solar value at even the highest observed redshifts. Due to the large uncertainties inherent in emission line abundance analysis, we employ another technique, absorption line analysis, to corroborate the evidence gleaned so far in order to better constrain the detected metallicities. We are also interested in the physical nature of these absorbers, their relationship to quasar outflows, and their role in quasar-host galaxy evolution.
