GEOTRACES

The Report from the GEOTRACES Arctic Planning Workshop (18-20 April 2012, Bremehaven, Germany) is now available on the GEOTRACES Web site.

Please click here to download it.

A section dedicated to GEOTRACES is included in the eight edition of the Daniel C. Harris's textbook "Quantitative Chemical Analysis". The section is included under chapiter 20 on page 247.

Reference:

Harris D.C (2011) Quantitative Chemical Analysis, WH Freeman and Company, 
ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-1815-3

Figure: Hardcover of the Quantitative Chemical Analysis textbook. Source: WH Freemen Web site.

Indian GEOTRACES cruise sailed from Cochin on April 26, 2012 onboard FORV Sagar Sampada in the Arabian Sea. This cruise was planned to follow GI02 track along 65° E, however, due to security threat from pirates, it will follow 68° E from 1° N to 21° N. We plan to collect samples from water column at every 2° latitude interval. The cruise track and planned sampling stations are shown in Fig. 1. The cruise will arrive at Goa on May 18, 2012.

Basic objectives of this cruise are:

(i) to determine full depth distribution of some of the trace elements which are not prone to contaminations without clean sampling system such as U, Mo, Re,
(ii) online measurement of chemical constituents of the ambient aerosol and collecting aerosol samples to determine their sources using isotopes,
(iii) collecting water samples for measuring Nd, Th, Hf, Ra and stable isotopes.

PI: Ravi Bhushan. 

Figure 1: Planned cruise track.

The deadline for session proposals at the AGU 2012 Fall Meeting is 20 April 2012 at 23:59ET/3:59+1 GMT.

For additional information on submission policies and guidelines click here.

We kindly remind colleagues planning a GEOTRACES Special Session to contact the International Project Office in advance.

Other deadlines:

12 June - Abstract and Town Hall Submission Site Opens

12 July - Registration and Housing Opens

8 August - Abstract and Town Hall Submission Deadline

ASLO is returning to the Big Easy for the first time since 1990! The Aquatic Sciences Meeting will be held on February 17-22, 2013, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Situated at the junction between the Mississippi River and the Gulf, the city of New Orleans is an ideal location to celebrate aquatic sciences. Under the theme "Learning for the Future," the meeting will bring together scientists, engineers, students, educators, policy makers and other stake holders to learn from the past and look to the future of aquatic sciences.

We are calling for proposals for special sessions. Proposals should address broad and timely topics that will interest a broad audience. In an effort to promote dialogs across disciplinary boundaries, we move away from the traditional separation of "research" vs. "non-research" sessions. Instead, we encourage the inclusion of both research and non-research presentations within sessions. "Non-research" would apply to both policy and education presentations. Sessions that encourage presentations that include both research and non-research aspects are especially desired.

We kindly remind colleagues planning a GEOTRACES Special Session to contact the International Project Office in advance.

Session proposals must be submitted online by 23:59 U.S. Central Daylight Time, April 30, 2012, to
http://www.aslo.org/forms/neworleans2013.html