GEOTRACES Science Highlights
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– Widespread nutrient co-limitation discovered on GEOTRACES cruise
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Browning and co-workers find that multiple nutrients must be supplied to stimulate phytoplankton growth on the southeast Atlantic GEOTRACES GA08 cruise. The paper has been published in Nature…
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– Barium isotope measurements help constraining the oceanic barium cycle
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Hsieh and Henderson propose a compilation of the oceanic barium concentrations together with its isotopic profiles measured so far. Their review covers the main oceanic basins, comparing data obtained in the North and South Atlantic, North Pacific and the Southern Oceans…
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– Surprising cadmium isotope results north of the Subantarctic Front in the South West Atlantic Ocean
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Xie and co-workers report cadmium isotopic compositions from five stations and 15 tow-Fish surface waters from 50ºS to the equator along GEOTRACES GA02 section…
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– Short-Term Variability of Dissolved Rare Earth Elements and Neodymium Isotopes in the Entire Water Column of the Panama Basin
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Patricia Grasse and co-workers present new dissolved neodymium isotope compositions and rare earth element concentrations from the Panama Basin…
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– Low iron sulfide precipitation rate in hydrothermal fluids during the early stage of mixing
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Waeles and co-authors report for the first time on the dissolved-particulate partition of iron after in situ filtration at the early stage of mixing of hydrothermal fluids with seawater. This study was performed at three hydrothermal fields on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge…
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GEOTRACES News
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– GEOTRACES Scientific Steering Committee Meeting held in Brazil
The GEOTRACES Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) and Data Management Committee (DMC) meetings were held from 16th to 20th September in Salvador, Brazil. The meetings were hosted by Vanessa Hatje from Universidade Federal da Bahia…
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– First GEOTRACES Summer School: Just Excellent!
The first GEOTRACES Summer School was held from 20th to 26th August 2017 in Brest, France. The summer school aimed at teaching the skills and knowledge necessary for a good understanding of the biogeochemical cycles of trace metals. It brought together 60 students and 26 world-leading international scientists…
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 2017 GEOTRACES Summer School Participants. Click here to view the image larger. |
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GEOTRACES in Numbers
» Cruises completed: |
99 |
» Section cruises completed:
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36 |
» Stations completed (sections):
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1024 |
» Peer-reviewed papers:
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850 |
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GEOTRACES Dates
– Cruises:
18 December 2017 – 07 February 2018, KOPRI Amundsen Process Study (GPpr12), Amundsen Sea.
20 December 2017 – 01 February 2018, FRidGE Section cruise (GA13), Mid Atlantic Ridge.
11 January – 01 February 2018, SR3-GEOTRACES Section Cruise (GI08), Southern Ocean.
– Forthcoming GEOTRACES Workshop:
12 – 17 May 2018, Training Workshop on Metal Speciation and Isotopes, Xiamen, China. Apply before 23 February 2018.
3 – 5 December 2018, GEOTRACES-PAGES Synthesis workshop: Trace Element and Isotope Proxies in Paleoceanography, Aix-Marseille, France. SAVE the date! More info soon!
– Forthcoming GEOTRACES meetings:
17 – 18 April 2018, GEOTRACES Data Management Committee, Liverpool, UK.
23 – 25 July 2018, GEOTRACES Scientific Steering Committee, Taipei, Taiwan.
– Forthcoming GEOTRACES Town Halls:
13 February 2018, Developing a framework for TEI and other biogeochemical research in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018, Portland, Oregon, USA.
14 February 2018, Release of New GEOTRACES Data Product, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018, Portland, Oregon, USA.
– Forthcoming GEOTRACES Special Sessions:
9 – 15 February 2018, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018, Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Flash info!
NEW searchable on-line database of GEOTRACES Publications! Discover it here!
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Latest Publications
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– Gardner, W. D., Richardson, M. J., & Mishonov, A. V. (2018). The Global assessment of benthic nepheloid layers and linkage with upper ocean dynamics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 482, 126–134. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.11.008
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– Woosley, R. J., Millero, F. J., & Takahashi, T. (2017). Internal consistency of the inorganic carbon system in the Arctic Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 15(10), 887–896. doi: 10.1002/lom3.10208
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– Saito, M. A., Noble, A. E., Hawco, N., Twining, B. S., Ohnemus, D. C., John, S. G., Lam P., Conway, T. M., Johnson, R., Moran, D., McIlvin, M. The acceleration of dissolved cobalt’s ecological stoichiometry due to biological uptake, remineralization, and scavenging in the Atlantic Ocean. Biogeosciences, 14(20), 4637–4662. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-4637-2017
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– Browning, T. J., Achterberg, E. P., Rapp, I., Engel, A., Bertrand, E. M., Tagliabue, A., & Moore, C. M. (2017). Nutrient co-limitation at the boundary of an oceanic gyre. Nature, 551(7679), 242-246. doi: 10.1038/nature24063
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– Gerringa, L. J. A., Slagter, H. A., Bown, J., van Haren, H., Laan, P., de Baar, H. J. W., & Rijkenberg, M. J. A. (2017). Dissolved Fe and Fe-binding organic ligands in the Mediterranean Sea – GEOTRACES G04. Marine Chemistry, 194, 100–113. doi: 10.1016/j.marchem.2017.05.012
– Zheng, L., Minami, T., Takano, S., Minami, H., & Sohrin, Y. (2017). Distribution and stoichiometry of Al, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb in seawater around the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Journal of Oceanography, 73(5), 669–685. doi: 10.1007/s10872-017-0424-2
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Banner 3D scene figure: 3D scene showing the distribution of dissolved iron in the Atlantic Ocean. Source: Schlitzer, R., eGEOTRACES – Electronic Atlas of GEOTRACES Sections and Animated 3D Scenes, http://www.egeotraces.org, 2017.
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