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Title:Towards a novel method for iron species determination in Antarctic sea ice
Authors:ID Budasheva, Hanna (Author)
ID Bratkič, Arne (Author)
ID Korte, Dorota (Author)
ID Franko, Mladen (Author)
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Language:English
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Typology:1.12 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution Abstract
Organization:UNG - University of Nova Gorica
Abstract:Sea-ice borne iron has been found to be an important factor controlling Southern Ocean phytoplankton growth [1]. Knowing the amount and chemical speciation of its labile fraction in sea ice would advance our understanding of the involved processes. Unfortunately, it is rather difficult to perform their measurement because of limited access to the Antarctic. Thus there is a strong need for the development of a quick, simple and reliable technique for determination of iron and its speciation in sea-ice that ensures also low enough limits of detection. Recently, diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) have been widely used as passive samplers for collecting time-averaged data on the concentrations of transition metals in different media [2]. DGTs are further coupled to an analytical technique that in case of detecting metals in passive sampler films primarily requires their extraction [3], which may potentially lead to changes of the metal specification. In the present study, the beam deflection spectrometry (BDS) is coupled to DGT and used to determine the average concentration of iron in the sea ice samples collected at the Davis Station in the Antarctic. Such a combined technique has been already successfully applied for detecting labile iron species in freshwater sediments [4]. The obtained BDS data were validated by thermal lens spectrometry (TLS) and UV-Vis spectrophotometry (SPEC). The distribution of iron species over a given ice surface area using the DGT-BDS technique revealed total iron concentrations in the range of 0.6 – 5.3 μgL-1, whereas the Fe2+ content was found to be in the range of 0.1 – 1.5 μgL-1. The range taking into account all of the measurement points (5×4), the precision of a single measured point is 0.2 μgL-1. The calculated 24 h-average concentration of total Fe labile species in the ice by using BDS is 2.3 ± 0.5 μgL-1, which coincides with data obtained by SPEC (2.5 ± 0.4 μgL-1) and TLS (2.39 ± 0.02 μgL-1). Our results indicate that it is possible to develop a robust, contamination-resilient detection method for measuring the labile iron species concentration in the sea ice. In opposite to TLS and SPEC, BDS-DGT provides reliable information not only about the speciation of iron but also about their distribution on the ice surface.
Keywords:beam deflection spectrometry, diffusive gradients, thin films, iron species, photothermal techniques, Antarctic sea ice
Year of publishing:2021
Number of pages:1 str.
PID:20.500.12556/RUNG-7011 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:87060483 New window
UDC:54
NUK URN:URN:SI:UNG:REP:QUJPZN9N
Publication date in RUNG:30.11.2021
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BUDASHEVA, Hanna, BRATKIČ, Arne, KORTE, Dorota and FRANKO, Mladen, 2021, Towards a novel method for iron species determination in Antarctic sea ice. In : Zbornik povzetkov [online]. Published Scientific Conference Contribution Abstract. Ljubljana. 2021. [Accessed 30 March 2025]. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.ung.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=7011
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Title:Zbornik povzetkov : Slovenski kemijski dnevi 2021
Editors:Albin Pintar, Marjana Gantar Albreht, Romana Cerc Korošec, Darja Lisjak, Matic Lozinšek, Zorka Novak-Pintarič, Matjaž Valant, Silvo Zupančič
Place of publishing:Ljubljana
Publisher:Slovensko kemijsko društvo
Year of publishing:2021
ISBN:978-961-93849-9-2
COBISS.SI-ID:75694595 New window

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