Science Highlights

Some recent GEOTRACES science findings are reported below.

Recent and original results in the Southern Ocean on mercury speciation and cadmium isotopes

For the first time detailed mercury (Hg) speciation was determined along an Australia-Antarctic section (Cossa, et al., 2011) and cadmium (Cd) isotopes along a South Africa-Antarctic section (Abouchami W., et […]

11.04.2012

Thanks to GEOTRACES-IPY, more and more iron data in the Arctic

Klunder, M. B., Bauch D., Laan P., de Baar H.J.W., van Heuven S., and Ober S. (2012), Dissolved iron in the Arctic shelf seas and surface waters of the central […]

10.04.2012

Ocean margins: the missing term for oceanic element budgets?

Jeandel, Catherine, Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Bernhard, Jones, Morgan T., Pearce, Christopher R., Oelkers, Eric H., Godderis, Yves, Lacan, François, Aumont, 0livier and Arsouze, Thomas This paper underlines how poor is our understanding […]

21.07.2011

GEOTRACES in the International Polar Year

The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 provided an excellent opportunity for a flying start of the GEOTRACES program. Major IPY GEOTRACES campaigns in the Arctic region (Figure 1) were the multiyear program […]

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