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 …

Variability of trace metals in coastal and estuary: Distribution, profile, and drivers

E Taufiqurrahman - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
Ongoing global changes such as increasing sea-surface temperatures, decreasing acidity
levels, and expanding oxygen-minimum zone may impact on the biogeochemical cycles of …

Increasing picocyanobacteria success in shelf waters contributes to long‐term food web degradation

K Schmidt, AJ Birchill, A Atkinson… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Continental margins are disproportionally important for global primary production, fisheries
and CO2 uptake. However, across the Northeast Atlantic shelves, there has been an …

Global variability of high-nutrient low-chlorophyll regions using neural networks and wavelet coherence analysis

G Basterretxea, JS Font-Muñoz… - Ocean …, 2023 - os.copernicus.org
We examine 20 years of monthly global ocean color data and modeling outputs of nutrients
using self-organizing map (SOM) analysis to identify characteristic spatial and temporal …

Recent progress and applications of thermal lens spectrometry and photothermal beam deflection techniques in environmental sensing

M Franko, L Goljat, M Liu, H Budasheva, M Žorž Furlan… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents recent development and applications of thermal lens microscopy (TLM)
and beam deflection spectrometry (BDS) for the analysis of water samples and sea ice …

Atmospheric nourishment of global ocean ecosystems

TK Westberry, MJ Behrenfeld, YR Shi, H Yu, LA Remer… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Over the vast open ocean, vital nutrients for phytoplankton growth in the sunlit surface layer
are largely provided through physical transport from deep waters, but some nutrients are …

Iron supply by subglacial discharge into a fjord near the front of a marine‐terminating glacier in northwestern Greenland

N Kanna, S Sugiyama, Y Fukamachi… - Global …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Glacial fjords in Greenland show high productivity owing to the runoff of meltwater from the
glaciers. Macronutrient dynamics (of nitrate, phosphate, and silicate) associated with …

Unprecedented Fe delivery from the Congo River margin to the south Atlantic Gyre

LH Vieira, S Krisch, MJ Hopwood, AJ Beck… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Rivers are a major supplier of particulate and dissolved material to the ocean, but their role
as sources of bio-essential dissolved iron (dFe) is thought to be limited due to rapid, efficient …

Trace element biogeochemistry in the high‐latitude North Atlantic Ocean: Seasonal variations and volcanic inputs

EP Achterberg, S Steigenberger, JK Klar… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present dissolved and total dissolvable trace elements for spring and summer cruises in
2010 in the high‐latitude North Atlantic. Surface and full depth data are provided for Al, Cd …

Exploring ocean biogeochemistry using a lab-on-chip phosphate analyser on an underwater glider

AJ Birchill, AD Beaton, T Hull, J Kaiser… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ability to make measurements of phosphate (PO43–) concentrations at temporal and
spatial scales beyond those offered by shipboard observations offers new opportunities for …