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GEOTRACES Scientific Steering Committee

Co-chairs: Robert Anderson (USA) and Gideon Henderson (UK)

Per Andersson (Sweden)Pere Masque (Spain)
Philip Boyd (New Zealand)Chris Measures (USA)
Ken Bruland (USA)Felipe Niencheski (Brazil)
Minhai Dai (China-Beijing)Kristin Orians (Canada)
Hein de Baar (Netherlands)James Orr (France)
Martin Frank (Switzerland)Carol Robinson (UK)
Toshitaka Gamo (Japan)Reiner Schlitzer (Germany)
Catherine Jeandel (France)Sunil Kumar Singh (India)
William Jenkins (USA)Michiel Rutgers van der Loeff (Germany)

Sponsors: SCOR, U.S. National Science Foundation

Date Approved: September 2003

Terms of Reference

  • Organize national and international planning workshops as well as special sessions at international conferences to obtain community input on the design and implementation of GEOTRACES.

  • Establish priorities for research on the sources, sinks, internal cycling, transport, speciation and fate of TEIs, and develop this information into an International Science Plan.

  • Promote intercalibration of analytical methods, and the development of standard reference materials.

  • Identify new instrumentation and related infrastructure that will help achieve GEOTRACES objectives.
  • Define a policy for data management and sample archival.
  • Forge scientific linkages with other research programs holding overlapping interests to create synergies where possible and avoid duplication of efforts. To the extent practical, this will involve cross-membership between the GEOTRACES Planning Group and the Planning Groups and Science Steering Committees of other programs.
  • Interact with SCOR Working Groups that share common interests including, but not limited to, SCOR/IMAGES WG 123 on Reconstruction of Past Ocean Circulation (PACE) and SCOR/IMAGES WG 124 on Analyzing the Links Between Present Oceanic Processes and Paleo-Records (LINKS).

Meetings:
#1: 16-18 Dec. 2006
San Francisco, California, USA

Project Web site: http://www.geotraces.org

Questions or Comments?
Please contact SCOR.