April 2023 - Issue #56
GEOTRACES Science Highlights
Irradiance-normalized non-photochemical quenching (NPQ): a new proxy of iron stress for phytoplankton
Ryan-Keogh and his colleagues used NPQ to fingerprint the photo-physiological response of phytoplankton to their environment.
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Special Focus

Discover the new videos of the GEOTRACES Education channel!

Every month a new video to better understand the ocean!


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Video 2: Lead, Humans and Oceans
Video 2: Lead, Humans and Oceans
Discover how scientists have found that lead pollution in the marine environment has been reduced…

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Video 3: Neodymium - The element that attracts us
Video 3: Neodymium - The element that attracts us
Not only is it omnipresent in our daily lives (phones, cars, etc.), in the ocean neodymium has very useful coulouring powers...

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Forthcoming in May 2023...
Forthcoming in May 2023...
Iron, Nutrient & Marker of the Oceans

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News
Bob Anderson will receive the title Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier
The title of Doctor Honoris Causa is the most prestigious academic title that can be conferred by a French university.
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GEOTRACES Informations

GEOTRACES Dates

Cruises:

11 April - 30 May 2023, German SO298 Section cruise (GP11), South Pacific Ocean.

12 May 2023 – 25 May 2023, Australian SOTS Process Study (GIpr08), Southern Ocean.

29 June - 13 July 2023, STING Process Study (GApr18)Eastern Gulf of Mexico.

19 July - 8 August 2023, N-ARC (DY167) Process Study (GApr19), Arctic Ocean.

24 November - 2023 - 28 January 2024, GP17-ANT (NBP24-01) Section Cruise (GP17-ANT), Southern Ocean. 

 

Upcoming GEOTRACES or GEOTRACES-related events:

23-28 April 2023, EGU General Assembly 2023, Viena, Austria and online. View GEOTRACES session

15-19 May 2023, AGU Chapman ConferenceAgros, Cyprus.

4-9 June 2023, ASLO 2023, Aquatic Science Meeting, Palma de Mallorca and online. View GEOTRACES Sessions

12-15 June 2023, OCB2023 Summer Workshop, Woods Hole, USA. 

15-16 June 2023, Hybrid MarChemSpec Tutorial at OCB2023, Woods Hole, USA and online.

9 July 2023, What can marine authigenic Nd isotopes be reliably used for?, full day hybrid pre-conference workshop at Goldschmidt 2023.

9-14 July 2023, Goldschmidt 2023, hybrid, Lyon (France) and online. View GEOTRACES sessions.

6-9 November 2023, International BioGeoSCAPES science planning workshop, Woods Hole USA and online.

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Job Opportunities

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

Postdoctoral Position in Marine Environmental Genomics, LOMIC, Banyuls-sur-mer, France
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Postdoctoral Scientist in Particle Cycling – Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA
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Funding Opportunities

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

The 2023 Call for SCOR Working Groups is open!
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Latest Publications

-       Al‐Hashem, A. A., Beck, A. J., Krisch, S., Menzel Barraqueta, J., Steffens, T., & Achterberg, E. P. (2022). Particulate Trace Metal Sources, Cycling, and Distributions on the Southwest African Shelf. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(11). doi:10.1029/2022gb007453

 

-       Alımlı, N., & Yücel, M. (2022). Seafloor iron mobilization across the deep-water redox gradients of the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9601

 

-       Chen, X., Krisch, S., Al‐Hashem, A., Hopwood, M. J., Rutgers van der Loeff, M. M., Huhn, O., Lodeiro, P., Steffens, T., & Achterberg, E. P. (2022). Dissolved, Labile, and Total Particulate Trace Metal Dynamics on the Northeast Greenland Shelf. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(12). doi:10.1029/2022gb007528

 

-       Gilbert, M., Ho, P., Whitmore, L., & Shiller, A. (2023). Automated determination of gallium in seawater using seaFAST pre-concentration and high-resolution inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Analytica Chimica Acta, 1241, 340799. doi:10.1016/j.aca.2023.340799

 

-      Tian, H.-A., van Manen, M., Wille, F., Jung, J., Lee, S., Kim, T.-W., Aoki, S., Eich, C., Brussaard, C. P. D., Reichart, G.-J., Conway, T. M., & Middag, R. (2023). The biogeochemistry of zinc and cadmium in the Amundsen Sea, coastal Antarctica. Marine Chemistry, 249, 104223. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2023.104223

 

-       Wu, Y., Pena, L. D., Anderson, R. F., Hartman, A. E., Bolge, L. L., Basak, C., Kim, J., Rijkenberg, M. J. A., de Baar, H. J. W., & Goldstein, S. L. (2022). Assessing neodymium isotopes as an ocean circulation tracer in the Southwest Atlantic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 599, 117846. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117846

 

 

 

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 ✓ Please include “GEOTRACES” in either the title, abstract or keywords of your GEOTRACES publications. 
 Intermediate Data Product (IDP) data contributors: Please use the DOoR portal to add any new publication of your data included in the IDP. 
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se help us to acknowledge support from SCOR in your publications as follows
“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).”

GEOTRACES in Numbers

Cruises completed: 143
Section cruises completed: 49
Publications: 2166

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