Science Highlights

Some recent GEOTRACES science findings are reported below.

Insight on the aluminium cycling during the inter-monsoon period in the Arabian Sea and Equatorial Indian Ocean

Full vertical water column profiles were established by Singh and Singh along the GI05 transect in the Indian Ocean during the fall inter-monsoon period in 2015.

05.07.2022

Machine learning approach led to the first iron climatology

Huang and co-workers propose the first data-driven surface-to-seafloor dissolved iron climatology.

21.06.2022

Distributions, boundary inputs, and scavenging processes of trace metals in the East Sea (Japan Sea)

Seo and his colleagues show pronounced atmospheric and shelf inputs of trace elements in the Japan Sea.

14.06.2022

New trace metal data in the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk

Nakaguchi and colleagues realized full-depth and section distributions of traces metals collected from the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk.

24.05.2022

The Arctic Ocean is a net source of micronutrients toward the North Atlantic through the gateway of Fram Strait

Krisch and colleagues present a flux budget for micronutrient exchange between the Arctic and the North Atlantic Ocean.

18.05.2022

Confrontation of two models to constrain the hydrothermal iron contribution to the Southern Ocean export production

Tagliabue and his co-workers compare the hydrothermal dissolved iron simulated by both models.

11.05.2022

A better insight into parameters that control particle flux in the ocean

Xiang and co-workers compiled full ocean-depth size-fractionated particle data from three recent U.S. GEOTRACES cruises.

10.05.2022

Assessment of deep-sea mining on Ocean health

Artigue and co-workers conducted a study to constrain how lithium and strontium from hydrothermal vents are dispersed in the ocean.

20.04.2022

North African dust is an important (but not dominant) source of iron to the Gulf of Mexico

Hayes and colleagues have combined data to estimate how important North African dust could be as a source of iron to the Gulf of Mexico.

19.04.2022

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