Biological and climatic impacts of ocean trace element chemistry (November 2016)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
28 November 2016; volume 374, issue 2081
Biological and climatic impacts of ocean trace element chemistry
Edited by Gideon Henderson, Ed Boyle, Maeve Lohan, Micha Rijkenberg and Géraldine Sarthou.

“This special issue arises from lectures and discussion during 4 days in December 2015. A 2 day meeting at the Royal Society in London was a showcase for recent advances in understanding of ocean trace element cycles. It was arranged in four sections: quantifying the oceanic cycles of trace elements; the biological impact of these cycles; the use of trace elements and isotopes as tracers; the human impact on trace element cycles. The first 14 papers in this volume are arranged following these sections, in the order in which they were presented.

A following 2 day workshop, held at Chicheley Hall, synthesized the state of knowledge about fluxes at the four ocean boundaries: with the atmosphere; the continents; marine sediments and the ocean crust. Breakout groups at this workshop discussed present knowledge, identified gaps in understanding and suggested research directions for the future. The outcome of discussions in these breakout groups is captured in the final four synthesis papers in this volume; one for each of the ocean boundaries.”

The volume includes four synthesis papers, which summarise our knowledge and identify areas for future work relating to chemical fluxes at the four ocean boundaries – with the atmosphere, the continents, sediments, and mid-ocean-ridges. These papers and some other papers are available open access.

Please find below the complete list of papers included in the volume:

Dedication: Professor Henry (Harry) Elderfield FRS (1943–2016) Rachel Mills, Chris German Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20160228; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0228. Published 17 October 2016

Introduction: Ocean trace element cycles Gideon M. Henderson Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150300; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0300. Published 17 October 2016

Research article: How well can we quantify dust deposition to the ocean? R. F. Anderson, H. Cheng, R. L. Edwards, M. Q. Fleisher, C. T. Hayes, K.-F. Huang, D. Kadko, P. J. Lam, W. M. Landing, Y. Lao, Y. Lu, C. I. Measures, S. B. Moran, P. L. Morton, D. C. Ohnemus, L. F. Robinson, R. U. Shelley Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150285; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0285. Published 17 October 2016

Research article: Atmospheric transport of trace elements and nutrients to the oceans T. D. Jickells, A. R. Baker, R. Chance Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150286; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0286. Published 17 October 2016

Review article: Overview of the mechanisms that could explain the ‘Boundary Exchange’ at the land–ocean contact Catherine Jeandel Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150287; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0287. Published 17 October 2016

Research article: Quantifying He fluxes from the mantle using multi-tracer data assimilation Reiner Schlitzer Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150288; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0288. Published 17 October 2016

Research article: Diagnosing oceanic nutrient deficiency C. Mark Moore Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150290; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0290. Published 17 October 2016

Research article: Impact of hydrothermalism on the ocean iron cycle Alessandro Tagliabue, Joseph Resing Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150291; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0291. Published 17 October 2016

Research article: Southern Ocean biological iron cycling in the pre-whaling and present ecosystems Maria T. Maldonado, Szymon Surma, Evgeny A. Pakhomov Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150292; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0292. Published 17 October 2016

Open Access! Discussion: Neodymium in the oceans: a global database, a regional comparison and implications for palaeoceanographic research Tina van de Flierdt, Alexander M. Griffiths, Myriam Lambelet, Susan H. Little, Torben Stichel, David J. Wilson Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150293; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0293. Published 17 October 2016

Research article: The oceanic budgets of nickel and zinc isotopes: the importance of sulfidic environments as illustrated by the Black Sea Derek Vance, Susan H. Little, Corey Archer, Vyllinniskii Cameron, Morten B. Andersen, Micha J. A. Rijkenberg, Timothy W. Lyons Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150294; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0294. Published 17 October 2016

Review article: Nitrite isotopes as tracers of marine N cycle processes Karen L. Casciotti Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150295; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0295. Published 17 October 2016

Research article: The effect of acidification on the bioavailability and electrochemical lability of zinc in seawater Ja-Myung Kim, Oliver Baars, François M. M. Morel Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150296; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0296. Published 17 October 2016

Research article: An examination of the role of particles in oceanic mercury cycling Carl H. Lamborg, Chad R. Hammerschmidt, Katlin L. Bowman Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150297; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0297. Published 17 October 2016

Research article: Lead isotope exchange between dissolved and fluvial particulate matter: a laboratory study from the Johor River estuary Mengli Chen, Edward A. Boyle, Jong-Mi Lee, Intan Nurhati, Cheryl Zurbrick, Adam D. Switzer, Gonzalo Carrasco Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20160054; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0054. Published 17 October 2016

Research article: Developing a test-bed for robust research governance of geoengineering: the contribution of ocean iron biogeochemistry Philip W. Boyd, Matthieu Bressac Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20150299; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0299. Published 17 October 2016

Open Access! Review article: Trace element and isotope deposition across the air–sea interface: progress and research needs A. R. Baker, W. M. Landing, E. Bucciarelli, M. Cheize, S. Fietz, C. T. Hayes, D. Kadko, P. L. Morton, N. Rogan, G. Sarthou, R. U. Shelley, Z. Shi, A. Shiller, M. M. P. van Hulten Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20160190; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0190. Published 17 October 2016

Open Access! Discussion: Quantifying trace element and isotope fluxes at the ocean–sediment boundary: a review William B. Homoky, Thomas Weber, William M. Berelson, Tim M. Conway, Gideon M. Henderson, Marco van Hulten, Catherine Jeandel, Silke Severmann, Alessandro Tagliabue Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20160246; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0246. Published 17 October 2016

Open Access! Review article: Coastal ocean and shelf-sea biogeochemical cycling of trace elements and isotopes: lessons learned from GEOTRACES Matthew A. Charette, Phoebe J. Lam, Maeve C. Lohan, Eun Young Kwon, Vanessa Hatje, Catherine Jeandel, Alan M. Shiller, Gregory A. Cutter, Alex Thomas, Philip W. Boyd, William B. Homoky, Angela Milne, Helmuth Thomas, Per S. Andersson, Don Porcelli, Takahiro Tanaka, Walter Geibert, Frank Dehairs, Jordi Garcia-Orellana Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20160076; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0076. Published 17 October 2016

Open Access! Research article: Hydrothermal impacts on trace element and isotope ocean biogeochemistry C. R. German, K. A. Casciotti, J.-C. Dutay, L. E. Heimbürger, W. J. Jenkins, C. I. Measures, R. A. Mills, H. Obata, R. Schlitzer, A. Tagliabue, D. R. Turner, H. Whitby Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2016 374 20160035; DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0035. Published 17 October 2016