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Following from the release of two intermediate data products in 2014 and 2017, the GEOTRACES Data Management Committee is pleased to announce the planned release of the third intermediate data product in July 2021 (IDP2021). For GEOTRACES principal investigators (PIs) with data to include in IDP2021, we remind you that you need to (1) submit […]
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Timothy Kenna and Margie Turrin from Columbia University, New York, have made available a new set of educational materials in English and Spanish for developing science literacy in students. They have produced three educational activities which all have a focus on understanding radioactivity in the environment. The first is a lab designed to introduce the […]
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The 2nd Russian GEOTRACES seminar was held on February 7, 2020 in Moscow at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences (https://ocean.ru). Prof. Dr. Eric Achterberg initiated the GEOTRACES seminar during his visit as part of the Helmholtz team. About 50 people attended the seminar in Moscow and some people listened to the […]
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SWINGS is a multidisciplinary 4-year project fully dedicated to elucidate trace element sources, transformations and sinks along a section crossing key areas of the Southern Ocean (SO). SWINGS aims at 1) establishing the relative importance of sedimentary, atmospheric and hydrothermal sources of trace elements and isotopes (TEIs) in the Indian sector of the SO, 2) […]
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GEOTRACES will have a major presence at 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting (16-21 February, 2020, San Diego, California, USA, https://www.agu.org/Ocean-Sciences-Meeting) This includes: ** IDP2021 dataset registration assistance at SCOR Booth ** ** GEOTRACES Sessions ** ** GEOTRACES-related events ** Please find the details below. **************** ** SCOR Booth ** You can get help registering your GEOTRACES datasets for inclusion in the next Intermediate Date Product (IDP2021, read […]
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The 2nd GEOTRACES Summer School was hosted by the International Campus of Excellence of the Sea (CEI · Mar, Cadiz, Spain) on board the Spanish school vessel ‘Intermares’. While society begins to demand greater attention to the oceans, science continues to follow the path that oceanographers have traced since more than a hundred years now. Global climate mobilizations […]
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Consensus Values for the GEOTRACES standards GSP (2009 GEOTRACES Pacific surface seawater) and GSC (2009 GEOTRACES coastal surface seawater) are available to download here. For further information on the GEOTRACES Standards and Reference Materials please click here.
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Asia GEOTRACES Workshop Sources/sinks and internal cycling of mercury and other TEIs in the Northwest Pacific Ocean Qingdao, Shandong, Chinan December 8-10, 2019 About the workshop GEOTRACES project covers global oceans, including the Northwestern Pacific Ocean (NWPO). However, the knowledge on regional distributions and internal cycling of trace elements and their isotopes (TEIs) in seawaters […]
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The 2019 GEOTRACES Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) meeting was held from 9th to 11th September at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) of the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia, hosted by Andrew Bowie and Zanna Chase. During the meeting, the SSC members reviewed the progress in the programme implementation and defined the […]
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Following endorsement at the recent Scientific Steering Committee meeting in Hobart (Australia), GEOTRACES has released a Statement of Values and Behaviours which reflects our common understanding of respectful values, acceptable behaviour, and cooperative interaction as an international scientific programme. The GEOTRACES Statement of Values and Behavious is available to download here.