Some recent GEOTRACES science findings are reported below.
Some phytoplankton species have the capacity to modify surface water arsenic speciation, inhibiting its toxicity. Such detoxification is operative in oligotrophic waters when phosphate concentrations are below those for arsenic […]
Exceptionally high dissolved cobalt (Co) concentrations have been measured in the surface waters above the Kerguelen Plateau (KEOPS), and in intermediate and deep waters above its eastern slope. Lateral advection […]
Data on dissolved Nd concentrations and isotopic compositions measured along a 87 E transect (GI01 section, “Indian GEOTRACES”) have been used in an inverse model in order to identify the […]
A North-South basin-scale full-depth section profile of dissolved Fe was realized in the Indian Ocean, as part of the first GEOTRACES Japanese cruise (Nov 2009 – Jan 2010). The data […]
The African coast appeared to be a major source of dissolved total dissolved cobalt, iron, manganese, and labile cobalt to the South Atlantic basin, with high cobalt concentrations in the […]
Advanced Light Source x-ray spectromicroscopy (XANES) allows a fine description of the marine Fe pool chemical speciation and mineralogy. This work describes diverse arrays of iron particles (20- 700 nm), […]
An interesting comparison of data of dissolved barium (Ba) and data of dissolved aluminium (Al) and silicate (Si) collected onboard the GEOTRACES cruise GIPY11 (ARK-XXII/2 Polarstern expedition) is presented in […]
A synthesis on the data available on the distribution of selected trace metals (i.e. Cadmium, Cobalt, Copper, Molybdenum, Nickel, Lead and Zinc) in the deep ocean from 1979 to 2009 […]
GEOTRACES will allow the collection of numerous data that will be archived in the GEOTRACES Data Assembly Centre (GDAC), and will eventually contribute to create a world atlas of tracers […]