December 2021 - Issue #48
GEOTRACES Science Highlights
Mercury stable isotopes constrain atmospheric pathways to the ocean
The study’s results hold promise that the implementation of anti-pollution measures under the Minamata Convention will likely result in a faster decrease of oceanic mercury levels than previously thought.
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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...
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An updated global ocean chromium biogeochemical cycle
Janssen and co-authors present an exhaustive compilation of ocean chromium data...
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New impetus to the debate on the sources of dissolved aluminium to the ocean
This study challenges the paradigm that dissolved aluminium in the bottom waters of the Arctic basins could result from a top-down process.
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Special Focus

New video available!

A new video presenting the GEOTRACES International Programme for the general audience is available!

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News

The new GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product (IDP2021) is now available!

Access the IDP2021:

www.bodc.ac.uk/geotraces/data/dp 

3D scenes showing the distribution of dissolved iron (DFe) in the Atlantic, Arctic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. © Schlitzer, Reiner, eGEOTRACES – Electronic Atlas of GEOTRACES Sections and Animated 3D Scenes, http://www.egeotraces.org, 2021

MANY THANKS to

all data contributors and those who have created the product!

Did you miss the IDP2021 webinar launch?

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GEOTRACES Informations

GEOTRACES Dates

Upcoming GEOTRACES or GEOTRACES-related events:

13-17 December 2021, AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, LA and on-line. Check the GEOTRACES session. 

27 February - 4 March 2022, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022, Honolulu, Hawaii and on-line. Check the GEOTRACES sessions. 

10-17 July 2022, 3rd GEOTRACES Summer School: Introducing Polar Parameters, Bremerhaven, Germany. Pre-announcement, more information will be available in early 2022.

 

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Job Opportunities


Check the GEOTRACES website to view the latest job opportunities posted including:

Faculty Position in Marine Chemistry, The University of Southern Mississippi
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Latest Publications


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Barrett, P. M., Grun, R., & Ellwood, M. J. (2021). Tracing iron along the flowpath of East Australian Current using iron stable isotopes. Marine Chemistry, 237, 104039. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2021.104039

- Haley, B. A., Wu, Y., Muratli, J. M., Basak, C., Pena, L. D., & Goldstein, S. L. (2021). Rare earth element and neodymium isotopes of the eastern US GEOTRACES Equatorial Pacific Zonal Transect (GP16). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 576, 117233. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117233

- Lovindeer, R., Ustick, L. J., Primeau, F., Martiny, A. C., & Mackey, K. R. M. (2021). Modeling Ocean Color Niche Selection by Synechococcus Blue‐Green Acclimaters. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(10). https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021jc017434

- Miranda, D. de A., Leonel, J., Benskin, J. P., Johansson, J., & Hatje, V. (2021). Perfluoroalkyl Substances in the Western Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(20), 13749–13758. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c01794

- Zitoun, R., Achterberg, E. P., Browning, T. J., Hoffmann, L. J., Krisch, S., Sander, S. G., & Koschinsky, A. (2021). The complex provenance of Cu-binding ligands in the South-East Atlantic. Marine Chemistry, 237, 104047. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2021.104047

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GEOTRACES-PAGES Synthesis Workshop Publications
Each of these synthesis papers represents a valuable resource summarizing state of the art information about the proxies used and about the products of their application.
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“The International GEOTRACES Programme is possible in part thanks to the support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant OCE-1840868) to the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).”

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