Dataset: Selenium observations from the R/V Kilo Moana in the tropical Pacific Ocean from October 2011

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.749397.1Version 1 (2018-11-09)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Robert P. Mason (University of Connecticut)

Co-Principal Investigator: William Fitzgerald (University of Connecticut)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Mathew Biddle (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Collaborative Research: Interwoven biogeochemical cycles and biological transformations of mercury and selenium in the upper ocean (Mercury and Selenium)


Abstract

The data include measurements of total dissolved selenium and particulate selenium with depth for 9 stations occupied in the tropical Pacific Ocean in 2011, and total dissolved selenium in surface waters collected while the ship was underway between stations.

The data include measurements of total dissolved selenium and particulate selenium with depth for 9 stations occupied in the tropical Pacific Ocean in 2011, and total dissolved selenium in surface waters collected while the ship was underway between stations. 


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Gosnell, K. J., & Mason, R. P. (2015). Mercury and methylmercury incidence and bioaccumulation in plankton from the central Pacific Ocean. Marine Chemistry, 177, 772–780. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2015.07.005
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Munson, K. M., Lamborg, C. H., Swarr, G. J., & Saito, M. A. (2015). Mercury species concentrations and fluxes in the Central Tropical Pacific Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29(5), 656–676. doi:10.1002/2015gb005120
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Soerensen, A. L., Mason, R. P., Balcom, P. H., Jacob, D. J., Zhang, Y., Kuss, J., & Sunderland, E. M. (2014). Elemental Mercury Concentrations and Fluxes in the Tropical Atmosphere and Ocean. Environmental Science & Technology, 48(19), 11312–11319. doi:10.1021/es503109p
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Cutter, G. A., & Bruland, K. W. (1984). The marine biogeochemistry of selenium: A re-evaluation1. Limnology and Oceanography, 29(6), 1179–1192. doi:10.4319/lo.1984.29.6.1179
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Cutter, G. A., & Cutter, L. S. (2001). Sources and cycling of selenium in the western and equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 48(13), 2917–2931. doi:10.1016/s0967-0645(01)00024-8