Hydrothermal activity detected above the ultra-slow South West Indian Ridge, using a multi-proxy approach
Baudet and colleagues demonstrate the occurrence of hydrothermal venting on the Southwest Indian Ridge…
Science Highlights
Some recent GEOTRACES science findings are reported below.
To Ba or not to Ba: Evaluating water column excess particulate barium as a proxy for water column respiration
Rahman and co-workers examine the relationship between excess particulate barium and organic matter respiration in the water column…
Assessment of the Solomon Sea’s dissolved iron contribution to the Equatorial Under Current
Sarthou and co-workers analysed 11 vertical profiles of dissolved iron at the entrance, within, and at the exit of the Solomon Sea…
Major controls on the fate of dissolved manganese in the northeastern Indian Ocean
Malla and Singh investigated the key factors controlling dissolved manganese in the northeastern Indian Ocean.
An original approach to assess the particulate trace metal concentrations in seawater
Sohrin and co-workers propose defining particulate trace metal as the difference between total dissolvable and dissolved metals after a long storage of filtered and unfiltered acidified seawater.
Constraining aerosol deposition over the global ocean by the cosmogenic beryllium-7
He and co-workers propose a global estimate of aerosol deposition onto the ocean using the cosmogenic radionuclide beryllium-7.
Oceanic lead concentrations and isotopes mapped using explainable machine learning
Using three machine learning models, Olivelli and her colleagues generated global climatologies of lead concentrations and isotopes…
Dissolved nickel sources: transformation and sinks in the Arabian Sea
Malla and co-authors present an extensive study of the distribution of dissolved nickel in the Arabian Sea.
Linking cadmium cycling to phosphate dynamics in the Indian Ocean: Evidence from GEOTRACES transects
Mishra and Singh determined cadmium and phosphate concentrations along 34 complete vertical profiles in the Indian Ocean.