August 2023 - Issue #58
GEOTRACES Science Highlights
Intermediate Data Product Updates
Timeline for next GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product
First deadline is 15th May 2024!
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Special Focus

Final videos of the GEOTRACES Education channel!

Video 5: Thorium, a luminous element
This mysterious chemical element is used as a chronometer by scientists…

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Video 6: Radium, a chronometer of ocean currents
Discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie, radium is now used to calculate the time taken for coastal waters to reach the open ocean...

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News
GEOTRACES sessions at Ocean Sciences 2024
Submit an abstract before 13 September 2023!
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Special issue to celebrate 20 years of Ocean Science
Submission is open from 1st August 2023 until 30th June 2025.
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Bob Anderson has received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier
Bob Anderson has received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa 2023 by the University of Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier, France.
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Professor Derek Vance elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Congratulations to Prof. Derek Vance!
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GEOTRACES Informations

GEOTRACES Dates

Cruises:

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. 

3 January - 2 March 2024, MISO (IN2024_V01) Section Cruise (GS04), Southern Ocean. 

 

Upcoming GEOTRACES or GEOTRACES-related events:

21-22 September 2023, GEOTRACES Standards and Intercalibration Committee, San José, USA.

25-26 September 2023, GEOTRACES Data Management Committee, Stanford University, USA.

27-29 September 2023, GEOTRACES Scientific Steering Committee, Stanford University, USA.

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

18-24 February 2024, Ocean Sciences 2024, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA. View GEOTRACES Sessions. Abstract submission deadline 13 September!

 

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Job Opportunities

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

Postdoc position in trace metal biogeochemistry in Brest, France
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Post-doctoral fellowships opportunities in Israel
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Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowships for U.S. Citizens
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Student Opportunities

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

PhD opportunity on atmospheric ocean iron fertilisation, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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PhD opportunity on Southern Ocean elemental biogeochemistry, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
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PhD position (m/f/d) in marine biogeochemistry with focus on iron speciation at GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany
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PhD position at AWI-Bremerhaven, Germany
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Latest Publications

-       Bikkina, S., Shukla, A., Singh, S. K., Karri, D., Singh, N. D., & Sahoo, B. (2023). Link of the short-term temporal trends of Sr and Nd isotopic composition of aeolian dust over the Arabian Sea with the source emissions. Science of The Total Environment, 892, 164680. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164680

 

-       Bridgestock, L. (2023). Lead contamination of the deep Pacific Ocean via exchange with sinking particles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(26). doi:10.1073/pnas.2308014120

 

-       Fan, S., Lai, B., Elzinga, E. J., Ingall, E. D., Morton, P. L., & Gao, Y. (2023). Spatial variability of aerosol iron mineralogy and oxidation states over the Arctic Ocean. Science of The Total Environment, 889, 164301. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164301

 

-      Fourquez, M., Janssen, D. J., Conway, T. M., Cabanes, D., Ellwood, M. J., Sieber, M., Trimborn, S., & Hassler, C. (2023). Chasing iron bioavailability in the Southern Ocean: Insights from Phaeocystis antarctica and iron speciation. Science Advances, 9(26). doi:10.1126/sciadv.adf9696

 

-       Levier, M., Roy-Barman, M., Foliot, L., Dapoigny, A., & Lacan, F. (2023). Distribution of Pa in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean: Tracking scavenging during water mass mixing along neutral density surfaces. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 194, 103951. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103951

 

-       Wang, W., Goring-Harford, H., Kunde, K., Woodward, E. M. S., Lohan, M. C., Connelly, D. P., & James, R. H. (2023). Biogeochemical cycling of chromium and chromium isotopes in the sub-tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10. doi:10.3389/fmars.2023.1165304

 

-     Wu, J., Rember, R., Jin, M., Boyle, E. A., & Flegal, A. R. (2010). Isotopic evidence for the source of lead in the North Pacific abyssal water. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(16), 4629–4638. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.05.017

 

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GEOTRACES Publication Best Practices

 ✓ 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. 
 ✓ Plea
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-2140395) to the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).”

GEOTRACES in Numbers

Cruises completed: 147
Section cruises completed: 50
Publications: 2192

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