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August 2022 - Issue #52

GEOTRACES Science Highlights

High resolution of dissolved and particulate barium distributions in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean reveal the importance of the margin sources on the oceanic Ba budget

Rahman and co-workers performed intensive samplings and analyses of barium along the GEOTRACES GA03 and GP16 transects.

Insight on the aluminium cycling during the inter-monsoon period in the Arabian Sea and Equatorial Indian Ocean

Full vertical water column profiles were established by Singh and Singh along the GI05 transect in the Indian Ocean during the fall inter-monsoon period in 2015.

The most important thorium-234 disequilibrium compilation you ever saw

Elena Ceballos-Romero and her colleagues propose a comprehensive global oceanic compilation of Thorium-234 measurements.

Machine learning approach led to the first iron climatology

Huang and co-workers propose the first data-driven surface-to-seafloor dissolved iron climatology.

Distributions, boundary inputs, and scavenging processes of trace metals in the East Sea (Japan Sea)

Seo and his colleagues show pronounced atmospheric and shelf inputs of trace elements in the Japan Sea.

New trace metal data in the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk

Nakaguchi and colleagues realized full-depth and section distributions of traces metals collected from the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk.

Special Focus

3rd GEOTRACES Summer School

The 3rd International GEOTRACES Summer School took place from the 10th to 15th July 2022 at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany.

During this Summer School, the idea was to provide the students with the toolset, the network, and the knowledge to oversee a project around marine trace elements and their isotopes.

News

Call For Abstracts! Sixth Xiamen Symposium On Marine Environmental Sciences (XMAS-VI)

The deadline for abstract submission is September 30, 2022.

GEOTRACES National Reports online now!

Thanks to all GEOTRACES national representatives for all their work!

The Japanese GEOTRACES GP22 cruise is sailing in the western North Pacific Ocean

It will reveal the full-depth profiles of trace elements and their isotopes in the western North Pacific.

New Publication from GEOTRACES in a UN Ocean Decade Special Issue

GEOTRACES contributed to a special issue focused on the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

New Special Issue: Atmospheric deposition in the low-nutrient-low-chlorophyll ocean

The special issue presenting the results obtained during the PEACETIME process study cruise is now available!

Do not wait to submit your data for the next GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product!

The Standards and Intercalibration Committee as well as the GDAC are reviewing and processing data on an ongoing basis.

GEOTRACES Informations

GEOTRACES Dates

- Cruises:

30 June - 20 September 2022, Japanese KH-22-7 Section cruise (GP22), North Pacific Ocean.

1 December 2022 - 25 January 2023, US GP17-OCE Section cruise (GP17), South Pacific and Southern Ocean.

- Upcoming GEOTRACES or GEOTRACES-related events:

6-8 September 2022, The Challenger Society Conference 2022, London, UK. Check the GEOTRACES session.

8-9 September 2022, GEOTRACES Standards and Intercalibration Committee meeting, Brest, France.

12 September 2022, Scientific Meeting: Marine Microbes in a Changing Climate, Whittlebury Park, UK.

19-21 September 2022, TRACEAMORS: TRACE metal SAMplers and sensORS workshop, Brest, France

26-27 September 2022, GEOTRACES Data Management Committee meeting, Southampton, UK.

28-30 September 2022, GEOTRACES Scientific Steering Committee meeting, Southampton, UK.

9-12 January 2023, Sixth Xiamen Symposium On Marine Environmental Sciences (Xmas-VI), Xiamen, China. Call for abstracts here!

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Job and Student Opportunities

Check the GEOTRACES website to view the latest job opportunities posted including:

Call for Applications for an Early-Career Scientist to Join the SCOR Executive Committee

Postdoc Position in Marine Trace Metal Geochemistry, at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

PhD Position in Marine Trace Metal Geochemistry, at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

PostDoc position in Trace Metal Biogeochemistry at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany

Latest Publications

- Zhang, R., Ren, J., Zhang, Z., Zhu, Z., & John, S. (2022). Distribution patterns of dissolved trace metals (Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb) in China marginal seas during the GEOTRACES GP06-CN cruise. Chemical Geology, 604, 120948. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.120948

- Gardner, W. D., Richardson, M. J., Mishonov, A. V., Lam, P. J., & Xiang, Y. (2022). Distribution, Sources, and Dynamics of Particulate Matter Along Trans‐Arctic Sections. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(6). doi:10.1029/2021jc017970

- Steiner, Z., Landing, W. M., Bohlin, M. S., Greaves, M., Prakash, S., Vinayachandran, P. N., & Achterberg, E. P. (2022). Variability in the Concentration of Lithium in the Indo‐Pacific Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(6). doi:10.1029/2021gb007184

- Tilliette, C., Taillandier, V., Bouruet‐Aubertot, P., Grima, N., Maes, C., Montanes, M., Sarthou, G., Vorrath, M. ‐E., Arnone, V., Bressac, M., González‐Santana, D., Gazeau, F., & Guieu, C. (2022). Dissolved Iron Patterns Impacted by Shallow Hydrothermal Sources Along a Transect Through the Tonga‐Kermadec Arc. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(7). doi:10.1029/2022gb007363

- Takano, S., Liao, W.-H., Ho, T.-Y., & Sohrin, Y. (2022). Isotopic evolution of dissolved Ni, Cu, and Zn along the Kuroshio through the East China Sea. Marine Chemistry, 243, 104135. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2022.104135

- König, D., Conway, T. M., Hamilton, D. S., & Tagliabue, A. (2022). Surface Ocean Biogeochemistry Regulates the Impact of Anthropogenic Aerosol Fe Deposition on the Cycling of Iron and Iron Isotopes in the North Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(13). doi:10.1029/2022gl098016

- Floback, A. E., & Moffett, J. W. (2021). Rare earth element distributions in the Arabian Sea reveal the influence of redox processes within the oxygen deficient zone. Chemical Geology, 577, 120214. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120214

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✓ Please include “GEOTRACES” in either the title, abstract or keywords of your GEOTRACES publications.
✓ Intermediate Data Product (IDP) data contributors: Please use the DOoR portal to add any new publication of your data included in the IDP.
✓ Please help us to acknowledge support from SCOR in your publications as follows:
“The International GEOTRACES Programme is possible in part thanks to the support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant OCE-1840868) to the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).”

GEOTRACES in Numbers

Cruises completed: 132
Section cruises completed: 45
Publications: 2098

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