Internship: Examining controls on the solubility in the ocean of ...

Biological productivity in the Gulf of Alaska is limited by availability of the micronutrient iron. Dust derived from Alaskan glacial flour and from Asian deserts, and ash from Alaskan volcanoes, episodically supply iron from the atmosphere. This internship would carry out solubility studies on archived material from a variety of dust and ash samples to examine controls on the supply of this important micronutrient.