Science

This section presents the GEOTRACES scientific activities.

 

Iron limitation also affects the twilight zone

Li and co-workers established the distribution and uptake of siderophores along the Pacific meridional section (GP15 GEOTRACES cruise)…

27.09.2024

Two papers describe findings on Rare Earth Elements in the North Atlantic Ocean (GEOVIDE cruise)

Lagarde and co-authors investigated the Rare Earth Element cycle along the GA01 transect.

26.09.2024

Deep-sea mining, dewatering waste, accidental plumes and their potential consequences on trace metal fates in the North Pacific Ocean

Xiang and his colleagues conducted laboratory incubation experiments that simulate mining discharge into anoxic waters.

09.09.2024

Biogeochemical behaviours of barium and radium-226 in the Pacific Ocean

Barium and radium-226 are not just proxies for nutrients and ocean circulation but are themselves marine biogeochemical tracers…

06.09.2024

Intrigued by Rare Earth Elements and neodymium isotopes? A review for the curious

Vanessa Hatje and a group of Rare Earth Element (REE) specialists propose an exhaustive review on the behaviour of REE.

06.08.2024

North-South section of bioactive cadmium, nickel, zinc, copper and iron along GEOTRACES transect GP19 in the Pacific Ocean

Zheng and his colleagues propose the first full sections of the simultaneous dissolved distributions of five nutrient-type trace metals in the western South Pacific Ocean.

15.07.2024

MOTES: a new facility designed for trace element sampling in seawater

Zhang and a group of engineers and researchers from Shanghai and Qingdao are presenting a modular trace element sampling facility.

04.06.2024

A thorough estimate of the hydrothermal plumes on neodymium concentration and isotope oceanic cycles

Basak and co-workers investigated the influence of particulate matter on neodymium distributions in the Southern East Pacific Rise Hydrothermal Plume.

27.05.2024

What are the drivers of the distributions of cadmium, nickel, zinc, copper and cobalt, manganese and aluminium in the Atlantic Ocean? Two papers are tackling this issue

Chen and co-authors reveal that the distributions of dissolved tracers at depth in the South Atlantic are predominantly controlled by the mixing of North Atlantic Deep Water and waters of Antarctic origin…

22.05.2024

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