Sandra Pöhle together with Andrea Koschinsky and alumna Imelda Velasquez recently published a study titled “Do desert dust input and pronounced oxygen minimum zones act as sources or sinks for dissolved molybdenum and uranium? A GEOTRACES study in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.” in the journal Marine Chemistry.
The study evaluates samples from two GEOTRACES research cruises: GA11 – NE-Atlantic affected by Saharan dust and the Mauritanian upwelling and GA08 – SE-Atlantic affected by Namibian dust and the Benguela upwelling and finds that the expansion of less oxygenated waters with a potential shift towards euxinic conditions and more extensive dust events in the future due to e.g. climate change may affect the distribution and potentially isotopic signatures of Mo and U.
Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2025.104580