Two papers describe findings on Rare Earth Elements in the North Atlantic Ocean (GEOVIDE cruise)
Lagarde and co-authors investigated the Rare Earth Element cycle along the GA01 transect…
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What are the drivers of the distributions of cadmium, nickel, zinc, copper and cobalt, manganese and aluminium in the Atlantic Ocean? Two papers are tackling this issue
Chen and co-authors reveal that the distributions of dissolved tracers at depth in the South Atlantic are predominantly controlled by the mixing of North Atlantic Deep Water and waters of Antarctic origin…
Aluminium, manganese, iron, cobalt, and lead display contrasting fate along north–south and east–west sections in the North Pacific Ocean
Chan et co-authors provide a comprehensive view of trace metal distribution in the subarctic Pacific Ocean.
Lead isotopes allow tracing the processes injecting of anthropogenic lead in deep waters
This work follows the penetration of anthropogenic lead (traced using its isotopic signatures) into the pristine deep Pacific Ocean.
Overlooked riverine contributions of dissolved neodymium and hafnium to the Amazon estuary and oceans
Xu and colleagues investigated the isotopic composition of dissolved neodymium and hafnium along the entire salinity gradient of the Amazon estuary.
Solid-solution distribution of the cosmogenic beryllium-7 in the water column
This work questions the validity and limits of the hypothesis that particulate beryllium-7 can be neglected in the oceanographic applications of this tracer.
Do you want to know more about iron and its isotopes? This review is for you!
Authors present a comprehensive review of iron and iron isotope sources, internal cycling, and sinks in the ocean.
Internal tides, energetic dynamical processes that generate particle nepheloids at different depths
In this study, Barbot and co-authors identified the sites where internal tides are responsible for sediment resuspension…
A vivid picture of particle distribution and sources in the Arctic Ocean
Extensive description of particle concentrations and chlorophyll-a fluorescence distribution along Arctic GEOTRACES sections.
High resolution of dissolved and particulate barium distributions in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean reveal the importance of the margin sources on the oceanic barium budget
Rahman and co-workers performed intensive samplings and analyses of barium along the GEOTRACES GA03 and GP16 transects.
High resolution of dissolved and particulate barium distributions in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean reveal the importance of the margin sources on the oceanic Ba budget
Rahman and co-workers performed intensive samplings and analyses of barium along the GEOTRACES GA03 and GP16 transects.
New trace metal data in the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk
Nakaguchi and colleagues realized full-depth and section distributions of traces metals collected from the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk.
A better insight into parameters that control particle flux in the ocean
Xiang and co-workers compiled full ocean-depth size-fractionated particle data from three recent U.S. GEOTRACES cruises.
In situ detection of Particulate Inorganic Carbon using optical sensors
They have developed optical sensors for particulate inorganic carbon concentration.
When titanium is not always behaving as a lithogenic conservative tracer: an Amazon estuary story
They established the distribution of titanium in Amazon and Pará rivers and their related plume during the high discharge period.
Intense benthic nepheloid layers in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean lead to unexpected distributions of dissolved and particulate thorium-230 and protactinium-231
Chen and colleagues explore the behaviour of thorium-230 and protactinium-231 in the benthic nepheloid layers…
Anthropogenic aerosol has become a dominant source of zinc in the deep water of the Northern South China Sea
Liao and colleagues determined zinc concentrations and isotope compositions in sinking particles collected in the Northern South China Sea…
An updated global ocean chromium biogeochemical cycle
Janssen and co-authors present an exhaustive compilation of ocean chromium data…
Microbial trace metal trafficking on marine particles
This study provides evidence for the processing of nine particulate trace metals in multiple manners by diverse microbial communities.
Unique winter dataset of particulate and dissolved cadmium in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean
Cloete and collaborators analysed particulate and dissolved cadmium at 7 stations in austral winter along a North South section off South Africa.
When GEOTRACES‐based synthesis efforts improve global iron-cycling understanding
Using historical (1987-2007) and recent GEOTRACES data, authors compiled an impressive data set comprising dissolved, filtered and trap-collected particulate iron
Particulate trace element export in the North Atlantic Ocean
Authors estimated particulate trace element export fluxes and residence times in the upper North Atlantic Ocean
Dissolved iron and manganese fates reveal processes along the hydrothermal TAG plume
Authors performed high-spatial resolution analyses of dissolved iron and manganese samples collected at the Mid Atlantic Ridge
Oceanic Margins as sources of lithogenic particulate and dissolved iron in the North Pacific Ocean
Three GEOTRACES Japanese cruises on board the R/V Hakuho Maru allowed establishing basin-scale and full-depth sectional distributions of total dissolvable iron (tdFe), dissolved iron (dFe), and labile particulate iron (lpFe=tdFe […]
Informative zinc isotopic fractionation in the Southern Ocean
Ellwood and co-workers (2020, see reference below) established the distribution of dissolved and particulate zinc (dZn and pZn respectively) and its isotopes in the Subantarctic Zone South of Tasmania. Concentration […]
Glacial erosion processes suspected to enhance the lability of particulate iron, with a strong influence on the biological demand in the subantarctic waters
As part of the GEOTRACES process study HEOBI (GIpr05) van der Merwe and co-workers (2019, see reference below) conducted a thorough characterization of the labile and refractory iron phases of the […]
Glacial erosion processes suspected to enhance the lability of particulate iron, with a strong influence on the biological demand in the subantarctic waters
As part of the GEOTRACES process study HEOBI (GIpr05) van der Merwe and co-workers (2019, see reference below) conducted a thorough characterization of the labile and refractory iron phases of the […]
Using the three thorium isotope toolbox to probe the particle dynamic within an East Pacific Rise hydrothermal plume
The insoluble radiogenic isotopes of thorium (Th) are produced at a known rate in the water column via the decay of soluble uranium (234Th, 230Th) and radium (228Th) isotopes. These […]
More realistic oceanic particle field improved the thorium-230 and protactinium-231 modeling
Thorium-230 (230Th) and protactinium-231 (231Pa) are two geochemical tracers extensively used for investigating particle transport in the ocean and reconstructing past ocean circulation. A key feature in reproducing their distributions by […]
Cadmium to phosphorus ratio in euphotic zone particulates: why does it vary?
Bourne and co-workers examine the particulate cadmium to phosphorus ratio (Cd/P) variations of 3 particle fractions (<1µm, 1-51µm and >51µm) from 50 casts covering spatial and temporal scales never reached so far […]