A Hypothetical Role of Manganese-oxidizing Bacteria on the Distribution of Particulate Metals in the Canadian Arctic Ocean

Maria Teresa Maldonado1, Jingxuan LI2, Julie LaRoche3, Dhwani Desai3, Manuel Colombo1, Alexis Beaupré-Laperrière4, Kristin J Orians5 and Alfonso Mucci4, (1)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)MIT-WHOI Joint Program, Chemical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Dalhousie University, Department of Biology, NS, Canada, (4)McGill University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (5)Univ British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada