It has been a busy spring semester, especially for the SIZE PhDs and postdocs. While some are carrying out fieldwork in Billefjorden on Svalbard, others where out in the Northern Barents Sea onboard the Helmer Hanssen. We left Tromsø on … Continued
The “Atlantification” and “Pacification” of the Arctic has begun. As warmer waters stream into an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean, new species — from phytoplankton to whales — have the potential to upend this sensitive polar environment. Arctic SIZE scientists and … Continued
Biological and functional traits analysis is an emerging tool increasingly used to answer pressing ecological questions. In the review article “Trait-based approaches in rapidly changing ecosystems: A roadmap to the future polar oceans” published in the journal Ecological indicators, a team … Continued
The Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) asked Paul Wassmann to provide a webinar on April 21 in Washington DC – Creating a National Scientific Mission: The Nansen Legacy Project. The webinar was also coordinated with a visit of director Dr William … Continued
Last month Tobias Vonnahme, Christine Dybwad and Ulrike Dietrich started their project “Microbial communities and fluxes in the cryosphere. Controls and connectivity on glaciers and sea ice, Billefjorden” on the sea ice in an Arctic fjord on Svalbard. The aim of … Continued
Today Tobias Vonnahme, Ulrike Dietrich, and Christine Dybwad will travel to Billefjorden on Svalbard for more field work. They will investigate the impacts of sea ice and different glacial systems on the ecosystem structure, the environmental conditions, and vertical … Continued
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 … Continued
Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) ba meg å holde foredrag i Washington vedrørende hvordan AeN ble til. Mitt foredrag og møte med direktøren for Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, US Department of the Interior, er koordinert og avtalt med … Continued
23.03.2018 Kiel/Germany. In memory of four young marine scientists from Kiel, who lost their lives during a bomb attack in Dschibuti in 1987, the Annette-Barthelt Stiftung gives yearly prizes for excellent graduation work (PhD and Master theses) in marine sciences … Continued
Last week Tobias Vonnahme went to the annual meeting of ForBIO in Tromsø. ForBIO is a national research school and network for taxonomy and systematics. Tobias presented the planned Arctic SIZE project about impacts of glacial meltwater inflow and sea … Continued