Data-constrained marine micronutrient biogeochemistry: implementing a new tool to study the marine cycle of Zn and its isotopes

01.04.2020 – 31.03.2023

Summary

Scientific abstract

Micronutrient metals are fundamental to marine photosynthesis, which supports the marine food web and modulates the atmospheric inventories of two key gases: oxygen and carbon dioxide. The supply of dissolved micronutrients to photosynthesisers in the sunlit surface ocean is governed by a complex interplay between physical circulation, biological uptake & export, and chemical processes that remove them from, or add them to,...

Persons

Applicants

  • Gregory de Souza, Institut für Geochemie und Petrologie ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Employees

  • Claudia Eisenring, Forschungszentrum für Marine Geowissensch. GEOMAR Univ. Kiel, Germany

Project partners

  • Samar Khatiwala, Department of Earth Sciences University of Oxford, Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Disciplines and keywords

mySNF disciplines (provided by researchers): Geochemistry, Oceanography
Fields of research (mapped from mySNF Disciplines): Geochemistry, Oceanography
Keywords: optimisation, zinc isotopes, marine biogeochemistry, ocean modelling, micronutrients, isotope geochemistry, zinc

Datasets

Overview

Grant number
192116
Funding scheme
Project funding
Call
Project funding in Mathematics, Natural sciences and Engineering (division II) 2019 October
Approved amount
216,838 CHF
Status
Completed
Research institution
ETH Zurich – ETHZ
Institute
Institut für Geochemie und Petrologie ETH Zürich

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