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• Progress is being made with the interpretation and publication
of the results results from cruises GA02, GA04N and GN04
• Cruise • IBRV Araon, 21 December 2017 – 13 February 2018 in
the
Amundsen Sea (GEOTRACES Process study).
• Outputs • 9 publications in the reporting period with Dutch
GEOTRACES
scientists as (co-)authors
• Meetings and workshops • 2017 Goldschmidt meeting (Paris,
August) 3 presentations
Netherlands report 2017-2018
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• Upcoming cruise • AWI (Weddell Sea Cruise 2018/2019)
• New Funding • ‘Trace metals and the Arctic-Atlantic gateway
in a changing
world, local processes and global connections (MetalGate)’.
Project funded in the Netherlands Vidi scheme. PI Rob Middag
• 1 post-doc • 30 days cruise
Netherlands report 2017-2018
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Proposal process study
Cape Farewell
Greenland
Greenland Sea
Iceland Sea
North Atlantic Ocean
Norwegian Sea
Labrador Sea
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Cruise track KOPRI Amundsen cruise 21 December 2017 – 13
February 2018
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• Multiple elements, dissolved and unfiltered • Cd, Co, Cu, Fe,
Mn, Ni, Zn, Ti, Y, La, Pb and Ga
• Macronutrients • POC, PON
• Chlorophyll and pigments • Stable and radiogenic isotopes
• δ56Fe, δ234U (weathering), δ238U (anoxia) (Conway,
Stirling)
• Ligands • Saturation and characterisation (Gerringa)
• Viral ecology • Lysis, production and grazing rates
(Brussaard)
• quantitative proteomics and mass spectrometry • to identify
biomarkers of nutrient stress (Bertrand)
Analysis
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& water column Fe
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