{"id":920,"date":"2021-07-29T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/?page_id=920"},"modified":"2021-08-17T15:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:02:18","slug":"geotraces-pacific-meridional-transect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/projects\/geotraces-pacific-meridional-transect\/","title":{"rendered":"GEOTRACES: Pacific Meridional Transect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h1>GEOTRACES: Pacific Meridional Transect<\/h1>\n<p>GEOTRACES is a global effort to understand the world&#8217;s ocean chemistry. The goal is to figure out the distribution of various elements and their isotopes, many of these &#8220;trace,&#8221; in that they exist in very low abundance. These elements however are important for marine life and understanding ocean processes, food webs and circulation.<\/p>\n<p>GP15 the Pacific Meridional Transect leg of the US Geotraces program was carried out on the r\/v Roger Revelle, leaving September 18th, 2018 from Dutch Harbor, Alaska and arriving in Papeete, Tahiti December 8, 2018. The ship, with 59 scientists and crew followed 152\u00baW (north to south).<\/p>\n\t<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\n<p>This project is funded by the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\t<h3>Sailing Team Members<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Henderson (Alaska to Hawaii)<\/li>\n<li>Emily LeRoy (Hawaii to Tahiti)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<h3>Related Links and File<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/geotraces-gp15.com\/blog-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Life Onboard the r\/v Roger Revelle Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/projects\/geotraces-north-atlantic-zonal-transect\/\">Geotraces North Atlantic Zonal <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/projects\/geotraces-north-atlantic-zonal-transect\/\">Transect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/projects\/geotraces-gp-17-antarctic\/\">Geotraces Southern Ocean<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/projects\/geotraces-arctic\/\">Geotraces Arctic<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEOTRACES: Pacific Meridional Transect GEOTRACES is a global effort to understand the world&#8217;s ocean chemistry. The goal is to figure out the distribution of various elements and their isotopes, many of these &#8220;trace,&#8221; in that they exist in very low abundance. These elements however are important for marine life and understanding ocean processes, food webs&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":929,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/920\/revisions\/965"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/groundwater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}