Elements Magazine issue devoted to GEOTRACES research
The Elements Magazine December 2018 issue is devoted to GEOTRACES research!
Marine Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements and Their Isotopes
Catherine Jeandel, Zanna Chase, and Vanessa Hatje – Guest Editors
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The magazine’s overview of this issue reads:
The field of marine geochemistry is exploding these last two decades. During the 1980s and 1990s, the scientific community developed a geochemical toolbox to study key ocean processes, based on the concentration and isotopic composition of trace elements. The multiple processes at play in the ocean led the community to join forces and combine, at a global scale, the information provided by individual tracers to tackle big questions in oceanography. These were the motivations to create GEOTRACES, an international program of marine geochemistry. The key questions include the sources, internal processes and sinks of the elements; the services and functioning of marine ecosystems; the ocean’s role in climate variability; and the transport and fate of contaminants in the ocean. This issue will introduce the reader to the fascinating exploration of the big questions in ocean science using the chemistry of the infinitely small in seawater.
The volume contains the following articles:
- GEOTRACES: The Marine Biogeochemical Cycle of Trace Elements and Their Isotopes – Bob Anderson and Phoebe Lam
- New Tools, New Discoveries in Marine Geochemistry – Catherine Jeandel and Derek Vance
- Processes that Regulate Trace Elements Distribution in the Ocean – Walter Geibert
- Oceanic Micronutrients: Trace Metals that are Essential for Marine Life – Alessandro Tagliabue and Maeve Lohan
- Discovering the Ocean’s Past Through Geochemistry – Zanna Chase, Michael J. Ellwood and Tina van der Flierdt
- Trace-Metal Contaminants: Human Footprint on the Ocean – Vanessa Hatje, Carl H. Lamborg and Edward A. Boyle
- Changing Trace Elements Cycles in the 21st Century Ocean – Gideon Henderson, Eric P. Achterberg and Laurent Bopp
- GEOTRACES data products: standardising and linking ocean trace elements and isotope data at a global scale – Andrew Bowie and Alessandro Tagliabue