TY - JOUR
T1 - MOSAIC (Modern Ocean Sediment Archive and Inventory of Carbon)
T2 - A (radio)carbon-centric database for seafloor surficial sediments
AU - Van Der Voort, Tessa Sophia
AU - Blattmann, Thomas Michael
AU - Usman, Muhammed
AU - Montluçon, Daniel
AU - Loeffler, Thomas
AU - Tavagna, Maria Luisa
AU - Gruber, Nicolas
AU - Eglinton, Timothy Ian
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. This project was funded by the ETH project (Timothy Ian Eglinton and Nicolas Gruber) “Elucidating processes that govern carbon burial in the global ocean” (46 15-1). We thank Melissa Schwab for sharing her insights in optimal R visualization. Many thanks also go to Stephane Beaussier, who helped us overcome numerous challenges in the development of this project. We thank Anastasiia Ignatova for contributions to a prototype of MOSAIC. We thank Philip Pika for his insights into sediment parameters. We thank two anonymous reviewers, Paula Reimer and the editor David Carlson, for their feedback, which greatly improved the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/5/19
Y1 - 2021/5/19
N2 - Mapping the biogeochemical characteristics of surficial ocean sediments is crucial for advancing our understanding of global element cycling, as well as for assessment of the potential footprint of environmental change. Despite their importance as long-term repositories for biogenic materials produced in the ocean and delivered from the continents, biogeochemical signatures in ocean sediments remain poorly delineated. Here, we introduce MOSAIC (Modern Ocean Sediment Archive and Inventory of Carbon; https://doi.org/10.5168/mosaic019.1, http://mosaic.ethz.ch/, last access: 1 March 2021; Van der Voort et al., 2019), a (radio)carbon-centric database that seeks to address this information void. The goal of this nascent database is to provide a platform for development of regional-to-global-scale perspectives on the source, abundance and composition of organic matter in marine surface sediments and to explore links between spatial variability in these characteristics and biological and depositional processes. The database has a continental margin-centric focus given both the importance and complexity of continental margins as sites of organic matter burial. It places emphasis on radiocarbon as an underutilized yet powerful tracer and chronometer of carbon cycle processes, with a view to complementing radiocarbon databases for other Earth system compartments. The database infrastructure and interactive web application are openly accessible and designed to facilitate further expansion of the database. Examples are presented to illustrate large-scale variabilities in bulk carbon properties that emerge from the present data compilation.
AB - Mapping the biogeochemical characteristics of surficial ocean sediments is crucial for advancing our understanding of global element cycling, as well as for assessment of the potential footprint of environmental change. Despite their importance as long-term repositories for biogenic materials produced in the ocean and delivered from the continents, biogeochemical signatures in ocean sediments remain poorly delineated. Here, we introduce MOSAIC (Modern Ocean Sediment Archive and Inventory of Carbon; https://doi.org/10.5168/mosaic019.1, http://mosaic.ethz.ch/, last access: 1 March 2021; Van der Voort et al., 2019), a (radio)carbon-centric database that seeks to address this information void. The goal of this nascent database is to provide a platform for development of regional-to-global-scale perspectives on the source, abundance and composition of organic matter in marine surface sediments and to explore links between spatial variability in these characteristics and biological and depositional processes. The database has a continental margin-centric focus given both the importance and complexity of continental margins as sites of organic matter burial. It places emphasis on radiocarbon as an underutilized yet powerful tracer and chronometer of carbon cycle processes, with a view to complementing radiocarbon databases for other Earth system compartments. The database infrastructure and interactive web application are openly accessible and designed to facilitate further expansion of the database. Examples are presented to illustrate large-scale variabilities in bulk carbon properties that emerge from the present data compilation.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85106176195
U2 - 10.5194/essd-13-2135-2021
DO - 10.5194/essd-13-2135-2021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85106176195
SN - 1866-3508
VL - 13
SP - 2135
EP - 2146
JO - Earth System Science Data
JF - Earth System Science Data
IS - 5
ER -