Science Highlights

Some recent GEOTRACES science findings are reported below.

Mercury content and isotopes in bird’s guano: a window to reconstruct past climates

By analysing peat cores, Chuxian Li and her colleagues have shown how populations of nesting seabirds have fluctuated on a sub-Antarctic Island over the last 8,000 years.

18.06.2026

Contraction of North Atlantic Deep Water during glacial times: a paradigm called into question

Blaser and co-authors propose a new distribution of deep-water masses in the Atlantic Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Heinrich Stadial..

16.06.2026

Authigenic radiogenic neodymium isotope composition traces millennial-scale overturning circulation variability in the Arabian Sea

The neodymium isotopic signature of the sediment authigenic fraction is, a priori, a valuable proxy for reconstructing deep-water mass trajectories…

11.06.2026

Magmatic activity at the Carlsberg Ridge in the Indian Ocean triggered by glacial sea-level variation

De and colleagues provide a high-resolution record of magmatic input and associated hydrothermal activity over the past 49 kyr from a core recovered from a magmatic segment of the slow-spreading Carlsberg Ridge in the Indian Ocean.

Zinc and lead isotopes reveal human footprint on the most remote oceanic regions

Benaltabet and co-workers analysed suspended particles collected on GEOTRACES GP21 cruise tracked from Chile to New Caledonia.

05.06.2026

Organic binding site heterogeneity controls amorphous ferric oxy-hydroxides oceanic sink

In oxygenated seawater iron binds to hydroxide ions, which results in authigenic Fe precipitation as amorphous ferric oxy-hydroxide…

02.06.2026

Microbial trace metal transport in distinct water masses of the Southern Indian Ocean

Zhang and colleagues used genes coding for membrane transporters as proxies to map the distribution of the uptake and efflux of the trace metals…

28.05.2026

Do not mourn Nobias any longer: InertSep ME-2 is coming!

Thanks to the thorough development proposed by Alifia and co-workers, the community may have a solution to the shortage of Nobias Chelate PA-1…

08.04.2026

Long-range transport of iron off the Antarctic Peninsula

Tian and co-authors investigate dissolved iron concentrations and isotope compositions in the western Weddell Sea…

07.04.2026

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