GEOTRACES in the Levantine Basin, Eastern Mediterranean Angelos Hannides & Cecelia Hannides with thanks to Dan Hayes & George Zodiates, Oceanography Center, University of Cyprus (OC-UCY) www.oceanography.ucy.ac.cy/ • OC-UCY is interested in participating in and facilitating GEOTRACES-related activities in the Levantine Basin • A Mediterranean GEOTRACES transect? Discussion tomorrow • The use of the physical oceanographic activities of OC-UCY as a foundation on which to build the biogeochemical operational oceanography component of OC-UCY • A Mediterranean GEOTRACES transect: • Tracing an Atlantic ocean water mass back to the source; • Providing the impetus for regional and local process studies to generate GEOTRACES-compatible data.