First direct measurements of luxury iron uptake in natural phytoplankton communities: surprising results!
This study demonstrates the importance of biology and ecology to understanding iron biogeochemistry.
Science Highlights
Some recent GEOTRACES science findings are reported below.
Air-sea gas disequilibrium drove deoxygenation of the deep ice-age ocean
This study provides one of the first mechanistic explanations for Last Glacial Maximum deep ocean deoxygenation.
Spatial and temporal variability of bioactive trace metals, speciation and organic metal-binding ligands in the eastern Gulf of Mexico
Mellett and Buck present the concentrations of bioactive trace metals (Fe, Cu, Mn, Zn, Co, Ni, Cd, and Pb), Fe-and Cu-binding organic ligands, and electroactive Fe-binding humic substances in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Thorium-Protactinium fate across the tropical Atlantic Ocean: what reveals the water column-sediment coupling
Twenty seawater profiles and twenty core-top 231-protactinium and 230-thorium analyses were realised by Ng and colleagues along five depth transects across the northern tropical Atlantic open ocean.
Constraining Oceanic Copper Cycling through Artificial Intelligence and Ocean Circulation Inverse Model
Using available observations of dissolved copper, artificial neural networks, and an ocean circulation inverse model, authors calculated a global estimate of the 3-dimensional distribution and cycling of dissolved copper in the ocean.
Particulate rare earth elements distributions, processes and characterisation of nepheloids in the North Atlantic
Lagarde et al. realised the first basin scale section of particulate rare earth elements concentrations across the North Atlantic Ocean.
Isopycnal mixing controls protactinium and thorium distributions in the Pacific Southern Ocean
Pavia and co-workers determined the physical and chemical speciation as well as the vertical distribution of Protactinium-231 and Thorium-230 at 12 stations across the Southern Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current…
Time series thorium-230 data reveal scavenging intensification over the last 15 years in the Arctic Ocean
Authors demonstrate that the later hypothesis is likely explaining thorium-230-depletion in intermediate layers of the Amundsen basin.
Uranium-238 data and physical transports off the Peruvian coast are questioning the thorium-uranium export model
Authors determined insignificant advective and diffusive thorium-234 fluxes at 25 stations in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone