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)…
Science Highlights
Some recent GEOTRACES science findings are reported below.
Long distance dissolved iron transport in the North-East Pacific revealed by multiple tracers and an ocean circulation model
Sieber and co-authors have made extensive use of the multi-tracer approach, coupled to an oceanic circulation model…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.