Three Years of Observations Show a Sharp Boundary for Diazotrophs and N<sub>2</sub> Fixation Rates near the Northern Subtropical Front of the North Pacific Ocean

Mak, Wingkwan

Three Years of Observations Show a Sharp Boundary for Diazotrophs and N₂ Fixation Rates near the Northern Subtropical Front of the North Pacific Ocean

Wingkwan Mak¹, Mary Rose Gradoville¹, Hanna Farnelid², Angelicque E White³, Kendra A Turk-Kubo¹, Brittany Stewart⁴, Francois Ribalet⁵, Sara Ferrón⁶, Paulina Pinedo-Gonzalez⁷, Virginia Armbrust⁵, David M Karl⁶, Seth John⁸ and Jonathan P Zehr¹, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Linnaeus University, Sweden, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States, (5)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)University of Hawaii, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (7)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Geochemistry, Palisades, NY, United States, (8)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Three Years of Observations Show a Sharp Boundary for Diazotrophs and N2 Fixation Rates near the Northern Subtropical Front of the North Pacific Ocean

Three Years of Observations Show a Sharp Boundary for Diazotrophs and N₂ Fixation Rates near the Northern Subtropical Front of the North Pacific Ocean