GEOTRACES: Accelerating research on the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes

RF Anderson - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes (TEIs) constitute an active
area of oceanographic research due to their role as essential nutrients for marine organisms …

Bioactive trace metals and their isotopes as paleoproductivity proxies: An assessment using GEOTRACES‐era data

TJ Horner, SH Little, TM Conway… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton productivity and export sequester climatically significant quantities of
atmospheric carbon dioxide as particulate organic carbon through a suite of processes …

How well do global ocean biogeochemistry models simulate dissolved iron distributions?

A Tagliabue, O Aumont, R DeAth… - Global …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Numerical models of ocean biogeochemistry are relied upon to make projections about the
impact of climate change on marine resources and test hypotheses regarding the drivers of …

Barium in seawater: dissolved distribution, relationship to silicon, and barite saturation state determined using machine learning

Ö Mete, A Subhas, H Kim, A Dunlea… - Earth system science …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Barium is widely used as a proxy for dissolved nutrients and particulate organic carbon
fluxes in seawater. However, these proxy applications are limited by insufficient knowledge …

Cu and Zn isotope fractionation during extreme chemical weathering

SH Little, S Munson, J Prytulak, BJ Coles… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Copper and Zn are trace metal micronutrients whose stable isotope systematics are
receiving increasing attention as possible paleoenvironmental tracers. However, to realise …

Perspective on identifying and characterizing the processes controlling iron speciation and residence time at the atmosphere-ocean interface

N Meskhidze, C Völker, HA Al-Abadleh, K Barbeau… - Marine Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
It is well recognized that the atmospheric deposition of iron (Fe) affects ocean productivity,
atmospheric CO 2 uptake, ecosystem diversity, and overall climate. Despite significant …

The interplay between regeneration and scavenging fluxes drives ocean iron cycling

A Tagliabue, AR Bowie, T DeVries, MJ Ellwood… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Despite recent advances in observational data coverage, quantitative constraints on how
different physical and biogeochemical processes shape dissolved iron distributions remain …

GEOTRACES reflections

RF Anderson - Oceanography, 2024 - JSTOR
GEOTRACES is an international program that has benefited from contributions by
investigators in 35 nations. The program mission is to identify processes and quantify fluxes …

GEOTRACES

TM Conway, R Middag, R Schlitzer - Oceanography, 2024 - JSTOR
Dissolved iron (dFe) is an essential micronutrient for phytoplankton, with vanishingly low
oceanic dissolved concentrations (pico-to nanomoles per kg) known to limit growth—and …