Last week Arctic SIZE members went for field work in van Mijenfjorden an ice covered fjord on Svalbard near a closed down mining settlement Sveagruva.
Rolf Gradinger and fullbright professor Rodger Harvey were teaching at the Ecosystems in ie covered waters course. They showed UNIS students how to work on sea ice and understand the physics and biology in the ice.
Christine Dybwad participated in the course and was able to put out sediment traps for her own research. She will have a look on sinking material in order to find out what kind of particles or organisms are able to float in the water and what sinks out.
Tobias Vonnahme and Ulrike Dietrich performed in situ experiments under the sea ice in order to understand under which conditions sea ice algae and phytoplankton take up organic matter instead of pure inorganic material (mixotrophy).
