FINAL deadline is 15 December 2024!

Do not wait until the last moment!

Next meeting of the Standards and Intercalibration (S&I) Committee will be held on 20th of August 2024.

Register your data and submit your S&I reports through DOoR as soon as possible so that they can be reviewed in time by the S&I!

Be ready for IDP2025!

GEOTRACES Dates

- Cruises:

9 August - 13 October 2024, Arcwatch-2 (PS144) Section Cruise (GN06), Arctic Ocean. 

31 October – 22 December 2024, Cruise SO308, Section Cruise (GI07), Indian Ocean.

- Upcoming GEOTRACES or GEOTRACES-related events:

14 August 2024, Free virtual tutorial on X-ray spectromicroscopy.  

18 - 23 August 2024, Goldschmidt 2024, Chicago, USA. 

20 August 2024, GEOTRACES Standards and Intercalibration Committee (S&I) meeting, virtual.

16 - 17 September 2024, GEOTRACES Data Management Committee (DMC) meeting, Texel, The Netherlands.

18 - 20 September 2024, GEOTRACES Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) meeting, Texel, The Netherlands.

9 - 13 December 2024, AGU2024 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. USA and online.

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Job Opportunities

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Student Opportunities

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Latest Publications

-       Fourrier, P., & Dulaquais, G. (2024). Low‐molecular‐weight reduced sulfur substances: A major component of nonvolatile dissolved organic sulfur in the Pacific Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. doi:10.1002/lol2.10417

-       Kurisu, M., Sakata, K., Nishioka, J., Obata, H., Conway, T. M., Hunt, H. R., Sieber, M., Suzuki, K., Kashiwabara, T., Kubo, S., Takada, M., & Takahashi, Y. (2024). Source and fate of atmospheric iron supplied to the subarctic North Pacific traced by stable iron isotope ratios. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 378, 168–185. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2024.06.009

-       Obata, H., Mase, A., Gamo, T., Nishioka, J., & Okamura, K. (2024). In-situ analysis of sub-nanomolar level of Fe(II) in open-ocean waters. Analytical Sciences. doi:10.1007/s44211-024-00637-0

-      Waltemathe, H., Struve, T., Rehbein, M., & Pahnke, K. (2024). Influence of water mass mixing and hydrothermal processes on the distribution of dissolved Nd isotopes and concentrations in the South Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 642, 118846. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118846

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GEOTRACES Publication Best Practices

 ✓ 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-2140395) to the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).”

GEOTRACES in Numbers

Cruises completed: 153
Section cruises completed: 52
Publications: 2592