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Professor Department of Arctic and Marine Biology bodil.bluhm@uit.no +4777644382 Tromsø You can find me here

Bodil Bluhm

Job description

Arctic marine ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Researcher and Teacher

  • Carolin Uhlir, Bodil Bluhm, Saskia Brix, Jennifer Dannheim, Barbara Górska, Logan Heath et al.:
    A biogeographical inventory and the first taxonomic key to species of Cumacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) for the deep Arctic Ocean
    Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 18. February 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Miriam Marquardt, Bodil Bluhm, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger, Andreas Altenburger :
    Taxonomy of Arctic sea ice-associated rotifers of the genus Synchaeta based on novel 18S and COI sequences and morphological observations
    Frontiers in Marine Science 28. September 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Nadescha Zwerschke, Dorte Krause‐Jensen, David K. A. Barnes, Paul Renaud, William E. N. Austin, Mathieu Ardyna et al.:
    Status of Polar Blue Carbon: Toward Recognition and Integration in Marine Policy
    Global Change Biology 01. September 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • M. C. Nordström, Irina Zhulay, P. A. Armitage, Fredrika Norrbin, E. Bonsdorff, Jørgen Schou Christiansen et al.:
    Epibenthic food web structure across the Northeast Greenland seascape
    Marine Environmental Research 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Fredrik Björn Broms, Paul Eric Renaud, Torkild Bakken, Antti-Jussi Olavi Evertsen, Bodil Bluhm :
    Sub-Arctic coastal nudibranch (Mollusca, Gastropoda) assemblages vary distinctly with habitat and season
    Marine Ecology Progress Series 11. June 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Frederike Hoppmann, Bodil Bluhm, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger, Christian Buschbaum, Maeve Mcgovern, Markus Molis :
    Predator exclusion and riverine input: Effects on sub-Arctic intertidal soft-bottom macrobenthos
    Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 14. June 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Snorre Flo, Bodil Bluhm, Camilla Svensen, Kim Præbel, Anna Vader :
    Eukaryote diets in Arctic marine nematodes across seasons and shelf-to-basin gradients
    Polar Biology 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Joel Vikberg Wernström, Bodil Bluhm, Katarzyna Grzelak, Anders Hobæk, Doris Björling, Andreas Altenburger :
    Meiofauna Biodiversity and Community Structures in the Barents Sea and Nansen Basin Are Influenced by Benthic Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity
    Ecology and Evolution 01. March 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Barbara Górska, Katarzyna Grzelak, Bodil Bluhm, Silvia Hess, Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk :
    Does mesh size matter? Influence of mesh size on estimation of meiofauna abundance, biomass and on size spectra
    Oceanologia 01. January 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Bernabé Moreno, Lloyd Peck, Melody Clark, Katherine Mary Dunlop, David Barnes, Bodil Bluhm et al.:
    Heated settlement plates (HSPl) in global experimentation: Experiences, research questions, future applications and collaborations
    Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) 21. October 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Nathan D. McTigue, Katrin Iken, Ashley Ehrman, Bodil Bluhm, Guillaume Bridier, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger et al.:
    Trophic niche variation across the pan-Arctic coastal continuum
    PLOS ONE 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Hanna Dinevik, Andreas Altenburger, Bodil Bluhm :
    Slow growth and high longevity characterize the common, large Arctic brittle star, Ophiopleura borealis
    Frontiers in Marine Science 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • William J. Williams, Kristina A. Brown, Lina M. Rotermund, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Seth L. Danielson, Michael Dempsey et al.:
    Processes in the Kitikmeot Sea estuary constraining marine life
    Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Doreen Kohlbach, Agneta Fransson, Martí Amargant Arumí, Karen Assmann, Philipp Kurt Wolf Assmy, Gunnar Bratbak et al.:
    Nansen and Amundsen basins: Gradients of physico-chemical properties and biota composition with implications for future resource management of the central Arctic Ocean
    Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 06. March 2025 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV / ARKIV / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Phoebe Armitage, Anna Törnroos, Rosalyn Fredriksen, Bodil Bluhm, Benjamin Weigel, Erik Bonsdorff et al.:
    Diverging benthic trait diversity and drivers across fjord to slope habitats of the high Arctic
    Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Nathalie Calvet, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Andreas Altenburger :
    Shifting invertebrate distributions in the Barents Sea since pre-1900
    Frontiers in Marine Science 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Berengere Husson, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Frédéric Cyr, Seth L. Danielson, Elena Eriksen, Maria Fossheim et al.:
    Borealization impacts shelf ecosystems across the Arctic
    Frontiers in Environmental Science 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Timothy D. James, Martin Sommerkorn, Boris Solovyev, Nikita Platonov, John Morrison, Natalia Chernova et al.:
    Whole-ocean network design and implementation pathway for Arctic marine conservation
    npj Ocean Sustainability 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Arunima Sen, Èric Jordà Molina, Thaise Ricardo de Freitas, Silvia Hess, Henning Reiss, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm et al.:
    Benthic remineralization under future Arctic conditions and evaluating the potential for changes in carbon sequestration in warming sediments
    Scientific Reports 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Heidi Kristina Meyer, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Saskia Brix, Angelika Brandt, Jennifer Dannheim et al.:
    The emerging picture of a diverse deep Arctic Ocean seafloor: From habitats to ecosystems
    Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Ivan J. Cautain, Kim S. Last, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Paul Eric Renaud, David Mckee, Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy :
    High uptake of sympagic organic matter by benthos on an Arctic outflow shelf
    PLOS ONE 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Snorre Flo, Camilla Svensen, Kim Præbel, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Anna Vader :
    Dietary plasticity in small Arctic copepods as revealed with prey metabarcoding
    Journal of Plankton Research 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Miriam Marquardt, Lucie Hélène Marie Goraguer, Philipp Kurt Wolf Assmy, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Signe Aaboe, Emily Down et al.:
    Seasonal dynamics of sea-ice protist and meiofauna in the northwestern Barents Sea
    Progress in Oceanography 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Irina Zhulay, Katrin Iken, Paul E. Renaud, Ksenia Kosobokova, Bodil A. Bluhm :
    Reduced efficiency of pelagic–benthic coupling in the Arctic deep sea during lower ice cover
    Scientific Reports 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Amanda F. Ziegler, Bodil A. Bluhm, Paul E. Renaud, Lis L. Jørgensen :
    Weak seasonality in benthic food web structure within an Arctic inflow shelf region
    Progress in Oceanography 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV / ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Are Olsen, Marius Årthun, Paul A. Dodd, Sissel Jentoft, Paul Eric Renaud, Malte Müller et al.:
    Polhavet / Arctic Ocean 2050 Science Plan
    30. October 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Miriam Marquardt, Bodil Bluhm, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger, Andreas Altenburger :
    Taxonomy of Arctic sea ice-associated rotifers of the genus Synchaeta based on novel 18S and COI sequences and morphological observations
    13. October 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Joel Vikberg Wernström, Bodil Bluhm, Andreas Altenburger :
    A worm’s eye-view of meiobenthic metazoans: Evolutionary patterns, ecological dynamics and biodiversity explored through an integrative approach
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 11. March 2026 ARKIV
  • TERRI SOUSTER, Raul Primicerio, Bodil Bluhm, Markus Mollis, David Barnes, Lloyd Peck :
    Turning up the heat! Settlement of benthic
    11. February 2026 ARKIV
  • Bodil Bluhm, Johanna Myrseth Aarflot, Tove M. Gabrielsen, Øyvind Lundesgaard, Agneta Fransson, Nils Olav Handegard et al.:
    Seasonality and interannual variability of physical, chemical and biological states and processes in the northern Barents Sea and adjacent areas
    Progress in Oceanography 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Per Joel Olof Vikberg Wernström, Katarzyna Grzelak, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Andreas Altenburger :
    Meiofaunal diversity and seasonality in the Barents Sea
    2024 ARKIV
  • Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm :
    Status of Benthic research in the Central Arctic Ocean
    2024 ARKIV
  • Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Paul Eric Renaud :
    Benthic-pelagic coupling
    2024 ARKIV
  • Erin Hye Soo Kunisch, Martin Graeve, Hauke Flores, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger, Øystein Varpe, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm :
    What we do in the dark: prevalence of omnivorous feeding activity in Arctic zooplankton during polar night.
    2024 ARKIV
  • Agneta Fransson, Bodil Bluhm, Doreen Kohlbach :
    Nansen vs. Amundsen Basin: Contrasting physico-chemical properties and biota composition to inform management; Nansen Legacy Arctic Basin, Aug 24 – Sep 25, 2021
    2024 ARKIV
  • Ida Søhol, Carolin Uhlir, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Eva Ramirez-Llodra :
    Characterising ridge fauna in the Central Arctic Ocean
    2024 ARKIV
  • Hanna Dinevik, Andreas Altenburger, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm :
    Ageing and growth of the Arctic brittle star Ophiopleura borealis (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Barents Sea
    2024 ARKIV
  • Agneta Fransson, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Doreen Kohlbach, Philipp Kurt Wolf Assmy, Gunnar Bratbak, Marti Amargant et al.:
    Nansen vs. Amundsen Basin: Constrasting physico-chemical properties and biota composition to inform management
    2024 ARKIV
  • Amanda Ziegler, Bodil Bluhm, Paul Eric Renaud, Lis Lindal Jørgensen :
    Supporting data for: Isotopic turnover in polar cod (Boreogadus saida) muscle determined through a controlled feeding experiment
    2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Amanda Ziegler, Lis Lindal Jørgensen, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Julia Giebichenstein, Katrine Borgå, Thaise Ricardo de Freitas :
    The effect of ice-free summer conditions on benthic food web structure in the Barents Sea
    2023 ARKIV
  • Slawomir Kwasniewski, Andreas Altenburger, Philipp Kurt Wolf Assmy, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Anna Maria Dabrowska, Bente Edvardsen et al.:
    Biodiversity in the northern Barents Sea and adjacent Nansen Basin – towards an updated inventory
    2023 ARKIV
  • Miriam Marquardt, Lucie Hélène Marie Goraguer, Philipp Kurt Wolf Assmy, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Evan Patrohay, Signe Aaboe et al.:
    Seasonal dynamics of sea ice protists and meiofauna in the northwestern Barents Sea in relation to sea ice properties
    2023 ARKIV
  • Bodil Bluhm, Saskia Brix, Irina Zhulay, Heidi Kristina Meyer, Eva Ramirez--Llodra, Paul Eric Renaud et al.:
    Is benthic biodiversity homogeneous or heterogeneous in the deep Arctic Ocean?
    2023 ARKIV
  • Bodil Bluhm :
    Biodiversity in the changing Arctic Ocean, should we care?
    2023 ARKIV
  • Ivan J. Cautain, Kim S Last, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Paul Eric Renaud, Amanda Ziegler, David McKee et al.:
    Sympagic Carbon Uptake by Benthic Fauna: How Does it Differ between an Inflow and Outflow shelf?
    2023 ARKIV
  • Hanna Dinevik, Amalia Keck Al-Habahbeh, Bjørn Gulliksen, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm :
    Longevity Estimates for Sea Anemones Inferred from Four Decades of Photographic Sampling in Svalbard and Northern Norway
    2023 ARKIV
  • Nathalie Calvet, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Andreas Altenburger :
    Shifting invertebrates in the Barents Sea over a century
    2023 ARKIV
  • Snorre Flo, Camilla Svensen, Kim Præbel, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Anna Vader :
    Seasonal Prey Composition of Three Small Arctic Copepods Assessed by Metabarcoding
    2023 ARKIV
  • Phoebe Armitage, Irina Zhulay, Rosalyn Fredriksen, Ivan J. Cautain, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Erik Bonsdorff et al.:
    Epibenthic Communities in Northeast Greenland: Taxonomic, Functional, and Trophic Structure
    2023 ARKIV
  • Miriam Marquardt, Lucie Hélène Marie Goraguer, Philipp Assmy, Bodil Bluhm, Signe Aaboe, Emily Down et al.:
    Seasonal dynamics of sea ice protists and meiofauna in the Northern Barents Sea.
    2023 ARKIV

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    Publications outside Cristin

    (Selection 2010)

     

    Bluhm BA, Iken K, Mincks SL, Sirenko BI, Holladay BA (2009) Community structure of epibenthic megafauna in the Chukchi Sea. Aquatic Biology 7:269-293

    Gradinger R, Kaufman MR, Bluhm BA (2009) The pivotal role of sea ice sediments for the seasonal development of near-shore Arctic fast ice biota. Marine Ecology Progress Series 394:49-63

    Bluhm BA, Gradinger R (2008) Regional variability in food availability for Arctic marine mammals. Ecological Applications 18 suppl: 77-96

    Kaufman MR, Gradinger RR, Bluhm BA, O’Brien DM (2008) Using stable isotopes to assess carbon and nitrogen turnover in the Arctic sympagic amphipod Onisimus litoralis. Oecologia 158:11-22

    Bluhm BA, Coyle CO, Konar B, Highsmith RC (2007) High gray whale densities at an oceanographic front in the south-central Chukchi Sea in 2003. Deep-Sea Research II 54:2919-2933

    Coyle KO, Bluhm BA, Konar B, Blanchard A, Highsmith RC (2007) Amphipod prey of gray whales in the northern Bering Sea: changes in biomass and distribution. Deep-Sea Research II 54:2906-2918

    Bluhm BA, Gradinger R, Piraino S (2007) First record of sympagic hydroids (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) in Arctic coastal fast ice. Polar Biology 30:1557-1563

    Bluhm BA, MacDonald IR, Debenham C, Iken K (2005) Macro- and megabenthic communities in the high Arctic Canada Basin: initial findings. Polar Biology (spec. issue) 28:218-231

    Iken K, Bluhm BA, Gradinger R (2005) Food web structure in the high Arctic Canada Basin: evidence from d13C and d15N analysis. Polar Biology (spec. issue) 28:238-249

    Gradinger RR, Bluhm BA (2004) In situ observations on the distribution and behavior of amphipods and Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) under the sea ice of the high Arctic Canadian Basin.  Polar Biology 27:595-603

    Bluhm BA, Brey T (2001) Age determination in the Antarctic shrimp Notocrangon antarcticus (Pfeffer, 1887) (Crustacea: Decapoda) using the autofluorescent pigment lipofuscin. Marine Biology 138:247-257

    Bluhm BA, Brey T, Klages M, Arntz WE (2001) Occurrence of the autofluorescent pigment lipofuscin in polar crustaceans and its potential as an age marker. Polar Biology 24:642-649

    Bluhm BA, Piepenburg D, v Juterzenka K (1998) Distribution, standing stock, growth, mortality and production of Strongylocentrotus pallidus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) in the northern Barents Sea. Polar Biology 20:325-334

    Research interests

    I have a strong interest in community ecology, biodiversity and population dynamics of benthic and sea ice-associated fauna. My research also focuses on coupling processes between the benthic, pelagic and sea ice realms in the Arctic through trophic interactions and life cycles. I am also interested in regional and pan-Arctic  integration and biophysical linkages.

    Science policy interface

    Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring System

    Working group Integrated Assessment Central Arctic Ocean 

    Current projects

    Polhavet / Arctic Ocean 2050

    Polar Ocean Mitigation Potential 

    Catchment to Coast (C2C) (Fram Center)

    Sustainable development of the Arctic Ocean SUARCO (Fram Center)

    Long-term monitoring of a subtidal hard-bottom benthic community

    TUNU East Greenland Ecology

    Kitikmeot Sea Science Study (Polar Knowledge Canada)

    Recent projects

    The Nansen Legacy (Norwegian Research Council), sciencenorway.no/blog-nansen-legacy-project 

    Arctic Seasonal Ice Zone Ecology (Norwegian Government, UiT)

     

    ORCID: 0000-0002-4584-7796

    Teaching

    BIO2513 Marine biodiversity, spring (Bachelor course)

    BIO 3015/8020 Arctic Marine System Ecology, høst (Master and PhD course)

     BIO 3009 Arctic Marine Pollution (module)

    Current students / candidates

    Hanna Modin - Carbon storage and sequestration potential, biodiversity and resilience in benthic communities on a pan-Arctic scale (PhD, 2024-present)

    Amalia Keck - Climate effects in Arctic coastal ecosystems (PhD, 2021-present)

    Marta Prieto del Campo - Freshwater and temperature modulated predator-prey interactions in high-latitude rocky intertidal. (PhD, 2024-present)

    Fredrik Broms - Biogeography of nudibranchs in sub-Arctic ecosystems (PhD, 2025-present)

    Anine Leenderts - Impacts of aquaculture emissions on the soft coral Duva florida in Northern Norway (MS, 2026-2027)

    Thibaud Combaz, Univ. Laval Canada. Linking climate to the seafloor: Functioning of the benthic ecosystem from the Last Ice Area to the Labrador Sea (PhD, 2023-present)

    Carolin Uhlir, Univ. of Hamburg and Senckenberg. Connectivity of abyssal fauna from Iceland to the Central Arctic Ocean (PhD, 2024-present)

    Recent past students

    Joel Wernstrøm - Benthic metazoan meiofauna of the Barents Sea (PhD, 2025), now post-doc at UiT Museum

    Ida Søhol - Characterizing Ridge fauna in the Central Arctic Ocean (MSc, 2025), now at Urchinomics

    Snorre Flo - Diet assessment in small Arctic invertebrates using molecular tools (PhD, 2024), now post-doc at UiO

    Hanna Dinevik - Age and growth of the Arctic brittle star Ophiopleura borealis (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) (MSc, 2024)

    Frederike Hoppmann - Effects of river runoff on intertidal benthic communities, biodiversity and food webs (MSc, 2024)

    Eric Jorda Molina, Nord University - Spatio-temporal dynamics of soft-bottom macrobenthic communities in a rapidly changing Arctic: a case study of the Northwestern Barents Sea (PhD, 2023), now Inst. of Marine Research

    Ivan Cautain, Univ. of the Highlands and Islands, SAMS - Investigating the importance of different sources of organic matter as food for the benthos on three Arctic shelves (PhD, 2023)

    Raphaelle Descoteaux - Life cycles of benthic invertebrates in the seasonal ice zone (PhD, 2022), winner of Forker Grand Prix in Tromsø 2020, now Marie Curie post-doc at U. Laval / U. Barcelona

    Irina Zhulay - Arctic deep sea benthos: Biodiversity, food web, and biological and functional traits (PhD, 2022), now at Institute of Marine Research

    Erin Kunisch - Biological adaptations in Arctic sea ice biota (PhD, 2022), now post-doc at NTNU

    Nathalie Calvet - Distribution changes of marine gastropods in the Barents Sea over the last century (MS, 2023)

    Lauren Sutton, University of Alaska Fairbanks (PhD, 2022)

    Sanna Matsson - Biofouling on cultivated seaweed: Latitudinal variation along the Norwegian coast and underlying mechanisms (PhD, 2021), now at Mørefoskning

    Recent post-docs

    Amanda Ziegler - Food web structure in the Barents Sea (2021-2023), now at Akvaplan-niva

    Emmelie Åstrøm - Chemosynthetic carbon in Barents Sea food webs, now at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences


    Member of research group / centre

    Arctic Marine System Ecology (AMSE)    English content

    Member of project

    TUNU - Biodiversity and Ecology of NE Greenland biota

    CV

    Since 2014 Professor, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
    2014-2020 Affiliate Faculty, School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), USA
    2001-2014 Research Assistant-Associate-Full Professor, School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences, UAF
    PhD 2000 Marine Biology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar & Marine Research and University of Bremen, Germany
    MS 1997 Zoology, Institute for Polar Ecology, Kiel University, Germany

     

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