The LOHAFEX experiment studied the environmental impacts of a sulfate of this element before being halted by the German government. John Martin’s “hypothesis” named for this element suggests that wind-blown addition of this element strengthens the biological pump during ice ages. Because it is limiting in HNLC regions, Russ George’s Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation controversially dumped this element to trigger blooms off the coast of British Columbia. Fertilizing oceans with this micronutrient has been suggested as a route to sequester carbon, since this metal is required by photosynthetic cofactors in plankton. The oxygenation of the oceans is recorded by “banded” formations of this metal, which include ores like hematite. For 10 points, name this element alloyed with nickel in the Earth’s core. ■END■
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 102.00 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 99.00 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 85.75 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 56% | 111.89 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 121.50 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 117.33 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.00 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 83.75 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 109.20 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aditya Sivakumar | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 63 | 10 |
| Duncan Griffiths | William & Mary A | GWU B | 63 | -5 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford | Columbia C | 64 | 10 |
| Sam Moore | Durham A | Sheffield | 64 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 66 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Muncy | Tennessee | South Carolina | 66 | -5 |
| Harrison Whitaker | Cambridge A | Oxford C | 67 | 10 |
| Perry O'Connor | Liberty A | Maryland C | 70 | -5 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Minnesota B | 70 | -5 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 71 | 10 |
| Bianca Van Zile | Binghamton | Cornell A | 71 | -5 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT A | RIT B | 71 | -5 |
| Ian Dewan | Kiel | Cambridge B | 71 | 10 |
| Yashodev Vyas | Minnesota C | Arizona State | 71 | -5 |
| Enoch Yuen | Imperial A | Bristol | 73 | 10 |
| Rosa Xia | Cornell B | Cornell C | 76 | 10 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | JMU B | 79 | -5 |
| Geoffrey Wu | Columbia A | NYU B | 80 | 10 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | Penn | 80 | 10 |
| Jacob Robertson | Oxford A | KCL | 80 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford C | 83 | -5 |
| Ethan Rehder | Duke A | Virginia B | 88 | -5 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar | Rowan | 89 | -5 |
| Alexander Clarke | Dartmouth A | Brandeis B | 90 | -5 |
| Taiga Clarke | Imperial B | Oxford B | 90 | -5 |
| Alex Emmert | Maryland B | Roanoke College A | 90 | -5 |
| Andrew Storm | GWU B | William & Mary A | 97 | 10 |
| Sam Hutton | Cambridge C | Edinburgh | 101 | 10 |
| Amogh Kulkarni | Geodesic | Georgia Tech B | 102 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC D | GWU A | 103 | 10 |
| Zander Werner | Virginia C | JMU A | 103 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt B | 106 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Yale A | 108 | 10 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Cedarville | 108 | 10 |
| Riley Bowling | Alabama | MTSU | 108 | 10 |
| Bryanna Shao | Vanderbilt A | Harding | 108 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham B | Warwick | 108 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty B | 108 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Liberty C | 108 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan C | 109 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | NYU A | 111 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford C | Stanford A | 121 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State | Minnesota C | 121 | 10 |
| Rohan Shelke | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 122 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis A | Boston University | 122 | 10 |
| Ryan Powell | Brandeis B | Dartmouth A | 122 | 10 |
| Ashish Kumbhardare | Rowan | Vassar | 122 | 0 |
| Khushi Umarwadia | South Carolina | Tennessee | 122 | 10 |
| Yared Tadesse | Cornell A | Binghamton | 122 | 10 |
| Alexander Baker | Oxford B | Imperial B | 122 | 10 |
| Charlotte Goeb | Virginia B | Duke A | 122 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland C | Liberty A | 122 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke College A | Maryland B | 122 | 10 |
| Brendan Karg | JMU B | UNC B | 122 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota B | Iowa State | 122 | 10 |