Subantarctic zone oceanography - SAZ Project 1997-1998 - Arsenic Data

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: oceans; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NUTRIENTS; Arsenic; SAZ; SHIPS; R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis; AMD/AU; CEOS; AMD; ACE/CRC; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Austral; Antarc*; aurora australis
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/subantarctic-zone-oceanography-arsenic-data/2816226

Progress Code: completed Statement: See the referenced papers for more information. Oceanographic processes in the subantarctic region contribute crucially to the physical and biogeochemical aspects of the global climate system. To explore and quantify these contributions, the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) organised the SAZ Project, a multidisciplinary, multiship investigation carried out south of Australia in the austral summer of 1997-1998. Taken from the abstracts of the referenced papers: The development of a semi-automated batch HG-AFS method for the shipboard determination of As(III), As(V),MMA and DMA is described. Procedures in the analytical sequence including addition of NaBH4 to samples, cooling and heating the U-trap used for pre-concentration and separation of the arsines, and logging the AFS output are automated. Overall control of the automated tasks into a logical analytical sequence is achieved using a commercially available data acquisition and control package, workbenchmac(TM). Further modifications required for the method to be adapted to shipboard use, including the use of a hydrogen generator, are also detailed. This method shows a number of advantages over a previously reported manual HG-AFS method including, shorter sample throughput time, increased precision and most significantly, ease of use under shipboard conditions. The semi-automated method was operated on the RSV Aurora Australis during a Southern Ocean voyage in March 1998. Arsenic measurements from a surface transect between 42 and 55 degrees S along 141 degrees 30 minutes E, are presented. Application of the method to more routine laboratory use is also discussed. Distribution of the arsenic species total inorganic arsenic [As(V+III)], arsenite [As(III)], monomethyl arsenic(MMA), andd dimethyl arsenic (DMA) was studied in the Subantarctic Zone (SAZ) of the Southern Ocean, south of Australia, during the austral autumn (March 1998). As (V) was the dominant arsenic species in both vertical profiles and surface ...