Dissolved Scandium and Iron in the Ocean: an investigation into the potential use of scandium distributions and into a new region of iron limitation

• Main Author: Parker, Claire Elizabeth
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Chemical oceanography; Biogeochemical cycles; GEOTRACES; Nutrient Limitation; Particle Scavenging; Scandium; Trace metals; Blanco; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8194b4bm; http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m5n91z27

The objective of this dissertation was to expand upon the very different states of knowledge of dissolved scandium (Sc) and iron (Fe) in the ocean. Iron is highly-studied and important biologically as an essential and often limiting micronutrient, yet characterizing the cycling of Fe fully has prove...