Trace Metal Behavior and Size Fractionation Along the River Water – Seawater Mixing Gradient in the Amazon River Estuary and Plume

Andrea Koschinsky1, Leandro de Carvalho2, Martha Gledhill3, Adrienne Hollister1, Cristian H. Krause4, Alexandre B. Schneider4 and Imelda Velasquez1, (1)Jacobs University Bremen, Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Bremen, Germany, (2)Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Department of Chemistry, Santa Maria, Brazil, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (4)Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Department of Chemistry, Porto Alegre, Brazil