{"id":1283,"date":"2019-02-18T13:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/?page_id=1283"},"modified":"2022-01-18T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:57:06","slug":"geotraces","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/projects\/geotraces\/","title":{"rendered":"GEOTRACES"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"geotracesRGB\" src=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/06\/geotracesRGB.jpg\" alt=\"geotracesRGB\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>GEOTRACES is an international collaborative project studying marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes in the ocean. Trace elements, critical for marine life, influence the functions of ocean ecosystems and the global carbon cycle. Elements may also be of specific concern as contaminants. The mission of GEOTRACES is &#8220;<em><strong>To identify processes and quantify fluxes that control the distributions of key trace elements and isotopes in the ocean, and to establish the sensitivity of these distributions to changing environmental conditions.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Cafe Thorium has been involved in GEOTRACES using Thorium isotopes to examine the biological carbon pump. Most recently this has involved a cruise from the Alaska to Tahiti between Septemer-November 2018 and from the Aleutians to the North Pole between August-November 2015. These projects are described below in more detail. Data is found both in the right columns for each cruise section and on the <a href=\"..\/..\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DATA<\/a> page.<\/p>\r\n<p>Also publicly available are two GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Products &#8211; containing data from many GEOTRACES cruises by both the U.S. and international teams.<\/p>\r\n<p>Schlitzer <em>et al. <\/em>(2018)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0009254118302961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017.<\/a> <em>Chemical<\/em> Geology, 493, 210-223.<\/p>\r\n<p>Mawji <em>et al.<\/em> (2015)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0304420315000997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014.<\/a> <em>Marine Chemistry<\/em>,177 Pt1,1-8.<\/p>\r\n<h3>On This Page<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"#GeoTop\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"#AkTahiti\">Alaska to Tahiti<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"#GeoArctic\">Arctic GEOTRACES<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"#EPZT\">East Pacific Zonal Transect<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"#NAGeo\">North Atlantic Transect<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Links:<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geotraces.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GEOTRACES.org (International)<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldeo.columbia.edu\/res\/pi\/geotraces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US GEOTRACES<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h1>South Pacific Ocean GP17 OCE-ANT <a href=\"#GeoTop\">(top)<\/a><\/h1>\r\n<p>U.S. GEOTRACES is planning to extend its meridional transect that was begun on the 2018 GP15 Alaska-Tahiti expedition south to the Antarctic ice edge and then east to Chile. This cruise is currently planned in two legs beginning in the Fall of 2022. Information can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/usgeotraces.ldeo.columbia.edu\/content\/gp17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Geotraces website<\/a>. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Proposed tracks for the GP17-OCE (red) and GP17-ANT (orange) cruises; stars indicate crossover\/intercalibration stations. Click on image to view the full size PDF map.\" src=\"https:\/\/usgeotraces.ldeo.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cu_crop\/public\/content\/GP17_OCE_ANT_map.png?h=e277a104&amp;itok=zIm5D3B0\" alt=\"GP17 Proposed Cruise Tracks\" width=\"615\" height=\"529\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\r\n<p>The National Science Foundation<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/bb-templates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/09\/nsf.png\" alt=\"nsf logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<h1 id=\"AkTahiti\">GEOTRACES &#8211; Alaska to Tahiti <a href=\"#GeoTop\">(top)<\/a><\/h1>\r\n<h3>GP15 &#8211; Quantifying Upper Ocean Export and Remineralization of Bioactive and Particle Reactive Trace Elements<\/h3>\r\n<p>R\/V Roger Revelle in the Pacific Ocean along 152\u00b0 W between Alaska and Tahiti. September 18 &#8211; November 25, 2018.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_1378\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1378\" src=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/gp15-track-edit-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GP15 Geotraces sampling track.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>This route allows for the examination of strong margin fluxes, atmospheric dust deposition and the ends of the hydrothermal plumes from the Juan de Fuca Ridge and East Pacific Rise. Find out more about the route on the following blog site: <a href=\"https:\/\/geotraces-gp15.com\/about-geotraces-gp15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GEOTRACES GP15<\/a><\/p>\r\n<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\r\n<p>The National Science Foundation under grant number 1735445.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/bb-templates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/09\/nsf.png\" alt=\"nsf logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<h3>Related Datasets<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/812511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GP15 Water column total and particulate Th-234 Leg 1<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/812589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GP15 Water column total and particulate Th-234 Leg 2<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Fun links<\/h3>\r\n<p>About MIT-WHOI PhD Student <a href=\"https:\/\/geotraces-gp15.com\/jennifer-kenyon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Kenyon<\/a> on the cruise<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geotraces-gp15.com\/blog-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BLOG<\/a> by onboard by Science Writer Alex Fox<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h1 id=\"GeoArctic\">Arctic GEOTRACES GN01 <a href=\"#GeoTop\">(top)<\/a><\/h1>\r\n<h3 id=\"page-title\">Radium and Thorium Isotopes as Natural Geochemical Tracers in the Arctic Ocean<\/h3>\r\n<p>USCGC Healy, Canada and Makarov Basins of the Arctic Ocean; Dutch Harbor to Dutch Harbor. Cruise GN01 Augus 8, 2015- October 12, 2015<\/p>\r\n<p>Read this article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/oceanus\/feature\/a-change-has-come-in-the-arctic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Change Has Come in the Arctic<\/a> by MIT-WHOI PhD Student Lauren Kipp about her experience on the Healy tracking radium in the Arctic.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_1374\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1374\" src=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_4463_A-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lowering pumps on Arctic Geotraces<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_1373\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1373\" src=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_4465_A-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pump team on Arctic Geotraces<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_1376\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1376\" src=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/GN01_US_Arctic_Map-1024x710.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Station map for GN01 cruise<\/p><\/div>\r\n<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\r\n<p>The National Science Foundation under grant No. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/award\/718438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OCE-1458305<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/bb-templates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/09\/nsf.png\" alt=\"nsf logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<h3>Arctic Collaborators<\/h3>\r\n<p>Matthew Charette (WHOI)<br \/>Lauren Kipp (MIT-WHOI)<\/p>\r\n<h3>Related Dataset<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/718440\">Radium and thorium isotopes measured in the Western Arctic<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Arctic Research Papers<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Black, E.E., Lam, P.J., Lee, J.-M., Buesseler, K.O. (2019) <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2018GB005985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Insights from the 238U-234Th method into the coupling of biological export and the cycling of cadmium, cobalt, and manganese in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean<\/a>. <em>Global Biogeochemical Cycles<\/em>, 33:1, 15-36.<\/li>\r\n<li>Black, E. (2018) An investigation of basin-scale controls on upper ocean export and remineralization. <em>MIT-WHOI PhD Thesis<\/em>.<\/li>\r\n<li>Onrubia, J.A., Petrova, M.V., Puicorb\u00e9, V., Black, E.E., Valk, O., Dufour, A., Hamelin, B., Buesseler, K.O., Masqu\u00e9, P., Le Moigne, F.A.C, Sonke, J.E., van der Loeff, M.R., Heimb\u00fcrger-Boavida, L.-E. (2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/cafethorium.whoi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/04\/Onrubia-et-al-2020-Mercury-Export-ACS-Earth-and-space-chem.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercury export flux in the Arctic Ocean estimated from 234Th\/238U disequilibria (pdf)<\/a>. <em>ACS Earth and Space Chemistry<\/em>, 4(5), 795-801. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsearthspacechem.0c00055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1021\/acsearthspacechem.0c00055<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h1 id=\"EPZT\">East Pacific Zonal Transect (EPZT) <a href=\"#GeoTop\">(top)<\/a><\/h1>\r\n<h3 id=\"page-title\">Rates of supply, removal and internal cycling of trace elements and isotopes<\/h3>\r\n<p>GP16-TN303 R\/V Thompson October 29-December 18, 2013. Lima Peru to Tahiti between 10\u00b0S and 20\u00b0S.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_1377\" style=\"width: 723px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1377\" src=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/GP16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"206\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. GEOTRACES GP16 water sampling stations in the eastern tropical South Pacific Ocean (by Bowmen et al., 2016, Marine Chemistry)<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\r\n<p>The National Science Foundation under grant No. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/award\/643215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OCE-1232669<\/a> and NASA Earth and Space Science Graduate Fellowship (NNX13AP31H) awarded to Erin Black.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/bb-templates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/09\/nsf.png\" alt=\"nsf logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/01\/Nasa-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"67\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h3>EPZT Data<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/643213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water column total Thorium-234 and Uranium-238<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/643316\">Particulate Th-234 from in-situ pumps<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Research Papers<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Black, E.E., Buesseler, K.O., Pike, S.M., Lam, P.J. (2018) 234Th as a tracer of particulate export and remineralization in the southeastern tropical Pacific. <em>Marine Chemistry<\/em>, 201: 35-50.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h1 id=\"NAGeo\">North Atlantic Transect <a href=\"#GeoTop\">(top)<\/a><\/h1>\r\n<h3 id=\"page-title\">GA03 Subtropical northern Atlantic Ocean<\/h3>\r\n<p>R\/V Knorr cruises KN199-04 (Oct. 15-Nov. 4, 2010) &amp; KN204-01 (Nov. 6-Dec. 11, 2011).<\/p>\r\n<p>The primary cruise design motivation was to improve knowledge of the sources, sinks and internal cycling of Trace Elements and their Isotopes (TEIs) by studying their distributions along a section in the North Atlantic. The North Atlantic has the full suite of processes that affect TEIs, including strong meridional advection, boundary scavenging and source effects, aeolian deposition, and the salty Mediterranean Outflow. The North Atlantic is particularly important as it lies at the &#8220;origin&#8221; of the global Meridional Overturning Circulation.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_1367\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1367\" src=\"https:\/\/website.whoi.edu\/cafethorium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/KN204-01_Stations-1024x545.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"545\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Station locations on the North Atlantic Transect on the R\/V Knorr (source: www.bco-dmo.org)<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\r\n<p>The National Science Foundation under grant OCE-0925158<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/bb-templates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/09\/nsf.png\" alt=\"nsf logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<h3>Collaborators<\/h3>\r\n<p>Matthew Charette (WHOI)<\/p>\r\n<h3>Related Datasets<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/3836\">Water-column total Thorium-234 and Uranium-238<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bco-dmo.org\/dataset\/3835\">Particulate Thorium-234 from in situ pumps<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Research Papers<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Owens, S.A., Pike, S., Buesseler, K.O. (2015) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0967064514003178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thorium-234 as a tracer of particle dynamics and upper ocean export in the Atlantic Ocean<\/a>. <em>Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography<\/em>, 116: 42-59.<\/li>\r\n<li>Hayes, C.T., <em>et al.<\/em> (2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2018GB005994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flux of particulate elements in the North Atlantic Ocean constrained by multiple radionuclides.<\/a> <em>Global Biogeochemical Cycles<\/em>, 32(12): 1738-1758.<\/li>\r\n<li>Lerner, P., Marchal, O., Lam, P.J., Buesseler, K.O, Charette, M. (2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0967063716304149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kinetics of thorium and particle cycling along the U.S. Geotraces North Atlantic Transect.<\/a>\u00a0<em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers<\/em>, 125: 106-128.<\/li>\r\n<li>Lerner, P. <em>et al.<\/em> (2016) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0967063716301066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Testing models of thorium and particle cycling in the ocean using data from station GT11-22 of the U.S. Geotraces North Atlantic section<\/a>. <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers<\/em>, 113: 57-79.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEOTRACES is an international collaborative project studying marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes in the ocean. 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