KM2112 SCOPE PARAGON 1 Trace Metal Fluxes Net Traps

The 2021 SCOPE-PARAGON research expedition was a coordinated effort to characterize particle dynamics and remineralization in the upper 500 m of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Despite the importance of particles as key sites of biological activity investigations of trace metal distributions and processes in particles especially in sinking material remain unmeasured. The 2021 SCOPE-PARAGON cruise was directed towards understanding the processes and rates of trace metals in biological particulate matter transformations (e.g., production, decomposition, sinking). These targeted studies of particle dynamics at Station ALOHA would leverage ongoing ecological and biogeochemical modeling efforts in SCOPE.