US GEOTRACES GP17-OCE: Investigating the role of the Southern Ocean's biogeochemical divide in shaping the global distributions of radium and barium isotopes

US GEOTRACES GP17-OCE：调查南大洋生物地球化学鸿沟在塑造镭和钡同位素全球分布中的作用

基本信息

批准号：
2048604
负责人：
Tristan Horner
金额：
$ 58.76万
依托单位：
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2048604&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
US GEOTRACES GP17 OCE Investigating

项目摘要

The GEOTRACES program aims to understand the distribution of trace elements and their isotopes in the oceans. Trace elements, by their very nature, are scarce. Despite their scarcity, trace elements are valuable tools for studying marine processes, such as: tracking chemical inputs to the ocean from the land or seafloor, identifying patterns of ocean mixing, and tracing ocean biology. This project will study these processes by measuring and modeling the distributions of two chemically similar elements — radium and barium. These measurements will be made on samples collected as part of the U.S. GEOTRACES GP17-OCE expedition. This expedition will collect samples from the Southern Ocean in late 2022. The Southern Ocean experiences deep mixing, which is important for bringing nutrients to the sea surface. Measuring radium and barium isotopes in these samples will help study the sources, cycling, and sinks of nutrients that support marine biology in the Southern Ocean and beyond. The findings will be shared with regional science teachers and students through a collaboration with the local Sea Grant Program, and the data will support the research of other scientists involved in GEOTRACES.The last 25 years have seen a paradigm shift in our understanding of the controls on marine nutrient cycles. Rather than arising from local vertical processes, the large-scale distributions of many elements are now thought to arise from processes occurring in the Southern Ocean, which are then communicated to lower latitudes through lateral circulation. A circulation-driven mechanism is also hypothesized to contribute to the global distributions of radium and barium isotopes, but this remains to be tested. In this project, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will test this hypothesis by analyzing radium and barium isotopes in dissolved and particulate samples collected from the Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean. These measurements will establish compositions for the southern-sourced mode/intermediate and bottom waters that are important end-members in the global overturning circulation. The team will also study the processes that control the composition of the end-members — particle formation and dissolution, interactions with sediments, hydrothermalism — and assess their significance using statistical and mechanistic modeling. The results will reveal the role of the Southern Ocean in controlling the global distributions of radium and barium isotopes, which will help refine the application of these tracers as tools for studying biogeochemical processes in the present and past oceans.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

GEOTRACES 计划旨在了解海洋中微量元素及其同位素的分布。微量元素本质上是稀缺的，但微量元素是研究海洋过程的宝贵工具，例如：跟踪化学输入。该项目将通过测量和模拟两种化学相似元素（镭和钡）的分布来研究这些过程。的一部分美国 GEOTRACES GP17-OCE 探险队将于 2022 年底从南大洋收集样本。南大洋经历深度混合，这对于测量这些样本中的镭和钡同位素非常重要。支持南大洋及其他地区海洋生物学的营养物质的来源、循环和汇。研究结果将通过与当地海洋资助计划的合作与区域科学教师和学生分享，并且数据将被共享。支持参与 GEOTRACES 的其他科学家的研究。过去 25 年，我们对海洋营养循环控制的理解发生了范式转变，现在认为许多元素的大规模分布不是由局部垂直过程引起的。产生于南大洋的过程，然后通过侧向环流传播到低纬度地区，还开发了一种环流驱动机制来促进镭和钡同位素的全球分布，但这仍有待检验。在该项目中，伍兹霍尔海洋研究所的研究人员将通过分析从南大洋太平洋部分采集的溶解和颗粒样品中的镭和钡同位素来检验这一假设。这些测量结果将确定南源模式/中间水和底层水的成分。该团队还将研究控制最终成员组成的过程——颗粒形成和溶解、与沉积物的相互作用、热液作用——并评估它们的作用。研究结果将揭示南大洋在控制镭和钡同位素的全球分布中的作用，这将有助于完善这些示踪剂作为研究当前和过去海洋生物地球化学过程的工具的应用。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（3）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Barium isotope signatures of barite–fluid ion exchange in Equatorial Pacific sediments

赤道太平洋沉积物中重晶石-流体离子交换的钡同位素特征

DOI：
10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118150
发表时间：
2023-06
期刊：
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
影响因子：
5.3
作者：
Middleton, J.T.;Paytan, A.;Auro, M.;Saito, M.A.;Horner, T.J.
通讯作者：
Horner, T.J.

A spatially and vertically resolved global grid of dissolved barium concentrations in seawater determined using Gaussian Process Regression machine learning

使用高斯过程回归机器学习确定海水中溶解钡浓度的空间和垂直解析全局网格

DOI：
10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.885506.2
发表时间：
2023-01
期刊：
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO
影响因子：
0
作者：
Horner, Tristan J.;Mete, Oyku Z.
通讯作者：
Mete, Oyku Z.

Barium in seawater: dissolved distribution, relationship to silicon, and barite saturation state determined using machine learning

海水中的钡：溶解分布、与硅的关系以及使用机器学习确定的重晶石饱和状态

DOI：
10.5194/essd-15-4023-2023
发表时间：
2023-01
期刊：
Earth System Science Data
影响因子：
11.4
作者：
Mete, Öykü Z.;Subhas, Adam V.;Kim, Heather H.;Dunlea, Ann G.;Whitmore, Laura M.;Shiller, Alan M.;Gilbert, Melissa;Leavitt, William D.;Horner, Tristan J.
通讯作者：
Horner, Tristan J.