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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duncan Griffiths | William & Mary A | GWU B | 63 | -5 |
| Aditya Sivakumar | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 63 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 71 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Robertson | Oxford A | KCL | 80 | 10 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | Penn | 80 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford C | 83 | -5 |
| Ethan Rehder | Duke A | Virginia B | 88 | -5 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar | Rowan | 89 | -5 |
| Alex Emmert | Maryland B | Roanoke College A | 90 | -5 |
| Alexander Clarke | Dartmouth A | Brandeis B | 90 | -5 |
| Taiga Clarke | Imperial B | Oxford B | 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 |
| Riley Bowling | Alabama | MTSU | 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 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Cedarville | 108 | 10 |
| Bryanna Shao | Vanderbilt A | Harding | 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 |
| Charlotte Goeb | Virginia B | Duke A | 122 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke College A | Maryland B | 122 | 10 |
| Brendan Karg | JMU B | UNC B | 122 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis A | Boston University | 122 | 10 |
| Ryan Powell | Brandeis B | Dartmouth A | 122 | 10 |
| Yared Tadesse | Cornell A | Binghamton | 122 | 10 |
| Alexander Baker | Oxford B | Imperial B | 122 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland C | Liberty A | 122 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota B | Iowa State | 122 | 10 |
| Ashish Kumbhardare | Rowan | Vassar | 122 | 0 |
| Khushi Umarwadia | South Carolina | Tennessee | 122 | 10 |