CT31A:
The Behavior of Trace Elements and Isotopes in Different Ocean Basins: New Insights from Comparisons and Contrasts I
CT31A:
The Behavior of Trace Elements and Isotopes in Different Ocean Basins: New Insights from Comparisons and Contrasts I
The Behavior of Trace Elements and Isotopes in Different Ocean Basins: New Insights from Comparisons and Contrasts I
Session ID#: 37178
Session Description:
Recent international programs such as GEOTRACES have been examining the biogeochemical cycling of trace elements and isotopes (TEIs) in the world’s oceans to reveal the mechanisms and rates affecting their concentrations, distributions, chemical forms, and interactions with organisms. In addition to studies by individual investigators, the accumulating results show many similarities, but some surprising differences between ocean basins, with a classic example being the regionally-specific Cd/PO4 relationships. In the same way that deviations from the Redfield ratio of N/P between ocean basins, known since the 1970s GEOSECS program, provide insight into nitrogen cycle processes, what can we learn from the comparisons and contrasts of TEIs, and what tools are needed to explore and test these observations? This session seeks presentations from the observational and modeling communities on lessons learned from inter basin TEI data sets with respect to inputs to, cycling within, and exports from the world’s oceans. In addition we invite contributions that consider how TEI distributions, their chemical speciation, and interactions with micro-organisms shape microbial community structure and productivity in various ocean basins.
Primary Chair: Gregory A Cutter, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States
Co-chairs: Adrian Burd, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Jay T. Cullen, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada and Tung-Yuan Ho, Academia Sinica, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Taipei, Taiwan
Moderators: Gregory A Cutter, Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States and Jay T. Cullen, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada
Student Paper Review Liaison: Jay T. Cullen, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada
Index Terms:
1952 Modeling [INFORMATICS]
4860 Radioactivity and radioisotopes [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4870 Stable isotopes [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4875 Trace elements [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
- BN - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
- MM - Microbiology and Molecular Ecology
- OM - Ocean Modeling
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
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