Sea ice geochemistry: mercury, ikaite and phosphate

Sea ice geochemistry: mercury, ikaite and phosphate

Start/end date: 
Sunday, April 12, 2015 - 00:00 to Saturday, May 23, 2015 - 00:00
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During this campaign our team plans to:

  • Look at Hg transport across snow-sea ice-seawater interface in first-year and multi-year sea ice, with a particular emphasis on the potential production of methyl mercury in sea ice
  • Study the vertical distribution if ikaite crystal within sea ice as well as the amount of phosphate co-precipitated with ikaite
  • Examine Halogens distribution across snow-sea ice interface
  • Test a new method for estimating CO2 flux through the sea ice during sea ice growth and decay

PI: Feiyue Wang, Soren Rysgaard, David Barber

Project lead: Yubin Hu

 

Fieldwork summary/photo blog