United States
Pacific Sections
North Atlantic Zonal Section
Implementation of U.S. GEOTRACES Sections
US GEOTRACES Scientific Steering Committee
Pacific Sections
Implementation Workshop Report
U.S. GEOTRACES hosted a community workshop at the University of Southern California (1 - 3 October 2008) to develop an implementation plan for sections in the Pacific Ocean. The report from that workshop can be downloaded from the link above.
North Atlantic Zonal Section
Summaries of Projects Recommended for Funding
Investigators whose proposals to participate in the North Atlantic section have been recommended for funding have voluntarily submitted the Project Summary of their proposal to be posted here. These summaries can be consulted by cruise participants to begin coordinating sampling and other activities during the cruise. In particular, persons who will attend the cruise planning workshop (March, 2010, Norfolk VA, exacts dates to be determined) are encouraged to review these summaries in advance of the meeting.
GEOTRACES was designed on the principle that studying multiple trace elements and isotopes (TEIs) simultaneously, together with access to key information about ocean circulation, will lead to more new knowledge about the sources, sinks and internal cycling of TEIs than would be possible by studying a single element or isotope in isolation. It is hoped that individual proposals to participate in the North Atlantic section will reflect this principle by developing linkages among the various individual studies. To facilitate that effort, PIs have voluntarily submitted the statements of interest listed here.
Those interested in submitting proposals are encouraged to contact PIs on the list to develop collaborations, or informal relationships, that will strengthen their respective proposals.
The list will be updated as new statements are submitted; so interested investigators may wish to check back periodically.
Management Services
Information about services offered by the project management team in preparation for, during and following the North Atlantic Section cruise is provided to assist investigators in preparing their proposals. The Project Description of the Management Proposal can be downloaded here. An abbreviated description of management services can be downloaded here.
Cruise Track
A series of images in PowerPoint (.ppt), Portable Document Format (.pdf) and JPEG (.jpg) formats may be downloaded for use in preparing proposals. Tentative full depth station locations are shown as white diamonds (see Implementation Plan).
US GEOTRACES Atlantic Implementation Plan
The U.S. Atlantic Section Implementation Plan was created by combining three working group reports from the U.S. GEOTRACES Atlantic Section Workshop held in Woods Hole September 22-24, 2008. An initial draft was made available for public comment until December 1, 2008. Based on comments, and more recently some suggestions by the U.S. GEOTRACES SSC, it was further revised to create the final draft, the availability of which was announced via e-mail on December 24, 2008 (download announcement here).
Announcement Describing Plans for N Atlantic Section
Download announcement here.
BACK TO THE TOP
Implementation of U.S. GEOTRACES Sections
At its annual meeting in May, 2008, the U.S. GEOTRACES SSC reviewed the scientific objectives and proposed ocean sections described in the reports of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian basin workshops convened in 2007 by the international GEOTRACES program, and selected sections in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for initial implementation under the U.S. contribution to GEOTRACES. These intentions were broadcast to the U.S. Chemical Oceanography community via an e-mail announcement distributed on 25 June, 2008 (download full announcement here). That announcement contained an open invitation to participate in planning workshops where the initial components of implementation plans for these sections were developed.
Initial planning took place at the following workshops :U.S. GEOTRACES Atlantic Workshop, 22 - 24 September 2008
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachussetts USA
U.S. GEOTRACES Pacific Section Implementation Workshop, 1 - 3 October 2008
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California USA
As a result of these workshops, the US GEOTRACES SSC, in consultation with the NSF Chemical Oceanography Program, determined that the North Atlantic section would be implemented first, tentatively in late 2010, followed by a Pacific section in 2012 or 2013.
US GEOTRACES
Scientific Steering Committee Members
Robert F. Anderson
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
boba at ldeo.columbia.edu
Peter Sedwick
Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
peter.sedwick at bios.edu
Chris R. German
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
cgerman at whoi.edu
Roger Francois
The University of British Columbia
rfrancoi at eos.ubc.ca
Edward A. Boyle
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
eaboyle at mit.edu
Daniel Sigman
Princeton University
sigman at princeton.edu
J. Keith Moore
University of California at Irvine
jkmoore at uci.edu
Tina van de Flierdt
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
tina at ldeo.columbia.edu
James Moffett
University of Southern California
jmoffett at usc.edu
William Landing
Florida State University
wlanding at mailer.fsu.edu
Katherine Barbeau
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
kbarbeau at ucsd.edu
BACK TO THE TOP
