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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-4466</article-id>
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<article-title>Glacial controls on iron and manganese concentration and lability in an Arctic fjord</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Stachnik</surname>
<given-names>Lukasz</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Korhonen</surname>
<given-names>Meri</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1906-5632</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hawkings</surname>
<given-names>Jonathan R.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Szeligowska</surname>
<given-names>Marlena</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Koziorowska</surname>
<given-names>Katarzyna</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Trudnowska</surname>
<given-names>Emilia</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-6632</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kuliński</surname>
<given-names>Karol</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5403-6629</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Szymczycha</surname>
<given-names>Beata</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5815-215X</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Głowacki</surname>
<given-names>Oskar</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5164-0206</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kitowska</surname>
<given-names>Małgorzata</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Dragańska-Deja</surname>
<given-names>Katarzyna</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Syczewski</surname>
<given-names>Marcin</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Benning</surname>
<given-names>Liane G.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9972-5578</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff8">
<sup>8</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Forjanes</surname>
<given-names>Pablo</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Moskalik</surname>
<given-names>Mateusz</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Alfred Jahn Cold Regions Research Centre, University of Wrocław, 50-383, Wrocław, Poland</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>GFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, 14473, Potsdam, Germany</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>University of Pennsylvania, 19104-6316, Philadelphia, USA</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>iC3, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Oceanology Polish, Academy of Sciences, 81-712, Sopot, Poland</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, 02-096, Warszawa, Poland</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff8">
<label>8</label>
<addr-line>Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, 12249, Berlin, Germany</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>27</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>29</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Lukasz Stachnik et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<abstract>
<p>Retreating glaciers are altering sediment and micronutrient fluxes to coastal waters, yet the magnitude and environmental impacts of change remain unclear. Here we examine how contrasting glacier systems in an Arctic fjord control the export and speciation of dissolved and particulate iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) by comparing locations influenced by marine-terminating and land-terminating glaciers. Data was collected from two glacierized bays in Hornsund, a southern Svalbard fjord, during research cruises conducted in 2022 and 2023. Highly reactive ascorbate‑extractable particulate Fe was a major component of the Fe pool in both systems, exceeding dissolved Fe even beyond the inner coastal zone, indicating that reactive particulate Fe is transported farther offshore than previously assumed. The marine-terminating glacier influenced bay exhibited substantially higher concentrations of reactive particulate Fe and Mn, elevated dissolved Mn, and sedimentation rates one to two orders of magnitude greater than in the bay with a land‑terminating glacier. These differences might be a result of higher subglacial discharge, a larger glacier cover with enhanced chemical weathering, and a higher abundance of freshly weathered mineral surfaces in the marine-terminating glacier influenced bay. In contrast, the input of suspended particulate matter and reactive micronutrient phases from the land‑terminating system was lower, as advanced glacial retreat has led to stabilisation of proglacial sediments and the glacier is smaller. Based on this dataset, coastal micronutrient inputs are likely to decline as glaciers continue to retreat, due to falling glacier discharge and supply of reactive sediment enriched in reactive micronutrients.</p>
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