This study reveals that the mean lead concentrations in the surface waters of the western South Atlantic Ocean decreased by 34 % between the 1990s and 2011.
Mar / 29 / 2023
This study reveals that the mean lead concentrations in the surface waters of the western South Atlantic Ocean decreased by 34 % between the 1990s and 2011.
Mar / 29 / 2023
Zheng and co-authors present the full-depth distributions of aluminum, lead, manganese and copper in the western South Pacific.
Nov / 24 / 2022
Using helium and neon as tracers for subglacial meltwater, Krisch and colleagues found that subglacial discharge is a source of dissolved lead.
Nov / 09 / 2022
Mellett and Buck present the concentrations of bioactive trace metals (Fe, Cu, Mn, Zn, Co, Ni, Cd, and Pb), Fe-and Cu-binding organic ligands, and electroactive Fe-binding humic substances in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Mar / 03 / 2021
Did you know that each of these tracers could follow its own marine story, quite decoupled from the others?
Apr / 24 / 2019
Bridgestock and his co-workers reveal for the first time that natural lead can be detected again in the surface water of the North Atlantic.
Oct / 05 / 2016
Nature Communications (September 2016) Bridgestock, L., van de Flierdt, T., Rehkämper, M., Paul, M., Middag, R., Milne, A., Lohan, M.C., Baker, A.R., Chance, R.,, Khondoker, R., Strekopytov, S., Humphreys-Williams, E., […]
Sep / 29 / 2016
Since the phasing-out of leaded automobile gasoline, the imprint of industrial lead is decreasing everywhere.
Jul / 07 / 2016
Stable lead isotopes have been measured by Maxence Paul and co-workers along 40°S during the first and second legs of the UK GEOTRACES cruise (GA10) in the Atlantic Ocean. They […]
Jan / 15 / 2016
A new method for the determination of seawater lead (Pb) isotope compositions and concentrations was developed, which combines and optimizes previously published protocols for the separation and isotopic analysis of […]
Mar / 06 / 2015
Zurbrick and co-authors present a relatively fast (2.5–6.5 hours), semi-automated system to extract lead (Pb) from seawater, with few chemicals yielding low blanks. They also demonstrate that subsequent Pb isotopic […]
Dec / 03 / 2013