Size-fractionated major, minor, & trace particle composition and concentration from Leg 2 (Hilo, HI to Papeete, French Polynesia) of the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (PMT) cruise (GP15, RR1815) on R/V Roger Revelle from Oct to Nov 2018

Size-fractionated particles were collected by in-situ filtration on the U.S. GEOTRACES GP15 Pacific Meridional Transect (PMT), which sampled from Alaska to Tahiti along 152°W Sept-Nov 2018. The PMT expedition was divided into two legs, with cruise IDs RR1814 and RR1815. This dataset results from leg 2, RR1815; data from RR1814 are available in a separate BCO-DMO dataset.

This dataset includes a suite of trace elements (e.g. iron, aluminum, zinc, manganese, cadmium, copper, cobalt, titanium, and barium), some of which are required for life, and others that act as tracers of oceanographic processes, and major biologically-produced carrier phases (e.g. particulate organic carbon and the biominerals, calcium carbonate and biogenic silica) in the size-fractionated particles collected from the US PMT section. Along with collaboration with researchers from other institutions, these data are used to assess the relative importance of particle concentration, composition, and size distribution on the cycling and removal of trace elements and their isotopes (TEIs).