Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
GEOTRACES in the International Polar Year
American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting
22-26 February 2010
Portland, Oregon
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 15 October 2009
For further information, please contact:
Rob Middag
Email: rob.middag [at] nioz.nl
Patricia Camara Mor
Email: Patricia.Camara [at] uab.cat
Organizers of Session CO07, "GEOTRACES in the International Polar Year,"
announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting, 22-26 February
2010, in Portland, Oregon.
Trace elements, such as iron, play a pivotal role in controlling ocean
productivity and therefore global climate. Moreover several trace
elements and isotopes serve as key tracers for unraveling processes and
turnover rates in the oceans. The international GEOTRACES program
pursues the characterization of marine biogeochemical cycles of Trace
Elements and Isotopes (TEIs; stable or radioactive; natural or
anthropogenic). In context of the International Polar Year (IPY)
2007-2009 the GEOTRACES program had its flying start with four arctic
and six Antarctic expeditions in order to study TEIs abundances,
processes and fluxes in the polar oceans. The multi-tracer approaches
and inter-calibration exercises carried out during IPY-GEOTRACES have
produced novel relationships among TEIs and other tracers and improved
methods for sampling and analyses. Organizers seek topics on TEIs as
controlling elements as well as tracers of biogeochemical processes in
the polar oceans in the context of IPY-GEOTRACES and other relevant
projects.
The abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is
Thursday, 15 October 2009, at 11:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time. To submit
an abstract, you must enter the first author's current AGU member ID and
password at: http://agu-os10.abstractcentral.com/.
For further information, please contact:
Rob Middag
Email: rob.middag [at] nioz.nl
Patricia Camara Mor
Email: Patricia.Camara [at] uab.cat
Delphine Lannuzel
Email: delphine.lannuzel [at] utas.edu.au
Celia Venchiarutti
Email: cvenchia [at] awi.de