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Collaborative Research: Underexplored Connections between Nitrogen and Trace Metal Cycling — NSF Award to Woods Hole Oceanographic

Though scarce and largely insoluble, trace metals are key components of sophisticated enzymes (protein molecules that speed up biochemical reactions) involved in biogeochemical cycles in the dark ocean (below 1000m). For example, metalloenzymes are involved in nearly every reaction in the nitrogen cycle. Yet, despite d

Award titleCollaborative Research: Underexplored Connections between Nitrogen and Trace Metal Cycling
Award ID2545044
AwardeeWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution
CityWOODS HOLE
StateMA
Amount obligated$28,592
Principal investigatorJohn Breier
ProgramChemical Oceanography
Start date05/01/2025
AbstractThough scarce and largely insoluble, trace metals are key components of sophisticated enzymes (protein molecules that speed up biochemical reactions) involved in biogeochemical cycles in the dark ocean (below 1000m). For example, metalloenzymes are involved in nearly every reaction in the nitrogen cycle. Yet, despite direct connections between trace metal and nitrogen cycles, the relationship between trace metal distributions and biological nitrogen cycling processes in the dark ocean have rarel
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