MarChemSpec has been accepted as a project within the UN Ocean Decade, which runs from 2021 – 2030. Joining the UN Ocean Decade is part of our efforts to gain improved international visibility and encourage greater use of the modelling tools.

Our Ocean Decade webpage, which is under construction, can be found at https://forum.oceandecade.org/ventures/106957.

Our modelling posters for Ocean Sciences 2024 can now be viewed here: dissolved CO2 and mineral solubilities, and inorganic complexation of GEOTRACES trace metals.

Other activities: we are making improvements to the MarChemSpec trace metal model, and have begun work on manuscripts describing thermodynamic measurements that will support development of a MarChemSpec model of the Tris buffer solutions used for calibration of pH. The measurements have been made by our collaborators at the national metrological institutes of the USA, Japan, and Germany over the last several years.