The aim of this work was to relate depth profiles of prokaryotic community composition with geochemical processes in the deep subseafloor biosphere at two shallow-water sites on the Peru Margin in the Pacific Ocean (ODP Leg 201, sites 1228 and 1229). Principal component analysis of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis banding patterns of deep-sediment Bacteria, Archaea, Euryarchaeota and the...

Spawning market squid lay embryo capsules on the seafloor of the continental shelf of the California Current System (CCS), where ocean acidification, deoxygenation and intensified upwelling lower the pH and [O2]. Squid statolith geochemistry has been shown to reflect the squid’s environment (e.g., seawater temperature and elemental concentration). We used real-world environmental levels of pH a...

Mapping geochemical anomaly is essential for prospecting. Kriging is often used to characterize the spatial variability of geochemistry. However, due to its smooth effects, it is incapable of detecting multi-location uncertainty of geochemistry estimate. Sequential gaussian simulation (SGS) can model the spatial uncertainty through generation of several equally probable stochastic realizations....

Flow and nutrient dynamics in a subterranean estuary (Waquoit Bay, MA, 1 USA): field data and reactive transport modeling 2 3 Claudette Spiteri, Caroline P. Slomp, Matthew. A. Charette, Kagan Tuncay 4 and Christof Meile 5 (1) Department of Earth Sciences – Geochemistry, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht 6 University, P.O. Box 80021, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands; [email protected], 7 slomp@g...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Secondary ion mass spectrometer Isotope ratios Oxygen High precision Instrumental bias We have developed highly precise and accurate in situ SIMS stable isotope analytical protocols using the IMS-1280 at the University of Wisconsin, through careful tuning of the instrument, stable electronics, and improved protocols for sample preparation, standardization and aut...