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. I am also interested in regional and pan-Arctic integration and biophysical linkages.
Since 2014 Professor, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
Since 2014 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
Current projects
Nansen Legacy (Norwegian Research Council)
Arctic Ocean ecosystems - Applied technology, Biological interactions and Consequences in an era of abrupt climate change, Arctic ABC (Norwegian Research Council)
Arctic Seasonal Ice Zone Ecology (Norwegian Government, UiT)
Long-term monitoring of a subtidal hard-bottom benthic community (Fram Center)
Long-term Benthos Monitoring network for detecting chance in the Arctic benthic ecosystem (LTM-Bentho) (Nordic Council of Ministries)
A knowledge platform for industrial macroalgae cultivation, MACROSEA (Norwegian Research Council)
TUNU East Greenland Ecology
Kitikmeot Sea Science Study (Polar Knowledge Canada)
BIO 2513 Marine biodiversity, spring
BIO 3015 Arctic Marine System Ecology, fall
Current students
Irina Zhulay - Arctic deep sea benthos: Biodiversity, food web, and biological and functional traits (PhD, 2015-present)
Erin Kunisch - Biological adaptations in Arctic sea ice biota (PhD, 2016-present)
Sanna Matsson - Biofouling on cultivated seaweed: Latitudinal variation along the Norwegian coast and underlying mechanisms (PhD, 2016-present)
Raphaelle Descoteaux - Life cycles of benthic invertebrates in the seasonal ice zone (PhD, 2017-present)
Snorre Flo - Diet assessment in small Arctic invertebrates using molecular tools (PhD, committee member, 2019-present)
Susan Dugan - Epibenthic communities in Kaldfjord, northern Norway (MS, 2019-present)
Recent past students
Charlotte Pedersen Ugelstad - Effects of terrestrial inputs on community composition of soft-bottom benthos in Isfjorden, Svalbard (MS, 2019)
Hanna Danielsen - Snow crab in the Barents Sea: reproductive ecology (MS, 2018)
Rosalyn Fredriksen - Epifaunal communities on the East Greenland shelf and slope (MS, 2018)
Amalia Keck - Recolonization and succession of a shallow rocky-bottom epibenthic community in Smeerenburgfjord, NW Svalbard (MS, 2018)
Frida Tradin - Longitudinal epibenthic communityh changes from the boreal waters off Finnmark to the Arctic located Kong Karls Land, with emphasis on Polar Front crossing effects (BA, 2018)
Thea Benjaminsen - Depth and north-south gradients in epibenthic communities of the continental shelf and slope of Norway (BA, 2017)
Kine Steffensen. Composition and traits of the deep-sea fauna in the Chukchi Borderland (BA, 2017)
Host mentor. Ashley Stasko - Benthopelagic and benthic trophic pathways in the Beaufort Sea (PhD, 2017), University of Waterloo, Canada
Co-advisor. Kyle Dilliplaine – Effects of oil entrainment and migration in sea ice on brine channel inhabiting biota (MS, 2016), University of Alaska Fairbanks
Main advisor. Mikaela Tillman - Aspects of the benthic food web of the Barents Sea, insights from stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes (MS, 2017), UiT
Committee member. Lauren Divine– Snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) trophic dynamics and stock characteristics in the US Arctic (PhD, 2016), University of Alaska Fairbanks
Committee member. Alexandra Ravelo – Epibenthic community variability in the northeastern Chukchi and central Beaufort Sea continental shelf (PhD, 2016), University of Alaska Fairbanks
Advisor. Rosalyn Fredriksen - Epibenthic communities in the Beaufort Sea, Alaska (BA, 2015), UiT
Co-Advisor. Carlos Serratos – Temporal comparison of epibenthic community and food web structure in the southern Chukchi Sea between 2004‑2012 (MS, 2015, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Committee member. Lauren Bell - The influence of terrestrial matter in marine food webs of the Beaufort Sea shelf and slope (MS, 2015, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
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Josefson AB, Mokievsky V (lead authors), Bergman M, Blicher ME, Bluhm B, Cochrane S, Denisenko NV, Hasemann C, Jørgensen LL, Klages M, Schewe I, Sejr MK, Soltwedel T, Weslawski JM, Wlodarska-Kowalczuk (contributing authors) (2013) Chapter 8. Marine invertebrates. Arctic Biodiversity Assessment - Status and Trends in Biodiversity in the Arctic. CAFF Working Group of the Arctic Council.
Michel C, Rice J (lead authors), Bluhm B, Duarte C, Galucci V, Gaston T, Gordillo FJL, Gradinger R, Hopcroft R, Jensen N, Mustonen T, Nielsen TG, Niemi A, Skjoldal HR (contributing authors) (2013) Chapter 11. Arctic Marine Ecosystems. Arctic Biodiversity Assessment - Status and Trends in Biodiversity in the Arctic. CAFF Working Group of the Arctic Council.
Bluhm BA, Grebmeier JM, Archambault P, Blicher M, Guðmundsson G, Iken K, Lindal Jørgensen L, Mokievsky V (2012) Benthos. In: Arctic Report Card: Update for 2012. http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/index.html
Michel C, Bluhm B, Gallucci V, Gaston T, Gordillo FJL, Gradinger R, Hopcroft R, Jensen N, Mustonen T, Niemi A, Nielsen TG (2012) Biodiversity of Arctic marine ecosystems and responses to climate change. Biodiversity 13:200-214
McConnell B, Gradinger R, Iken K, Bluhm BA (2012) Growth rates of juvenile Scolelepis squamata (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Chukchi Sea fast ice. Polar Biology 35:1487-1494
Bluhm BA, Gebruk AV, Gradinger R, Hopcroft RR, Huettmann F, Kosobokova KN, Sirenko SI, Weslawski JM (2011) Arctic marine biodiversity – an update of species richness and examples of biodiversity change. Oceanography 24:232–248
Bluhm BA, Ambrose Jr WG, Bergmann M, Clough LM, Gebruk AV, Hasemann C, Iken K, Klages M, MacDonald IR, Renaud PE, Schewe I, Soltwedel T, Wlodarska-Kowalczuk M (2011) Diversity of the Arctic deep-sea benthos. Marine Biodiversity 41:87-107
Kovacs KM, Michel C (lead authors), Bluhm B, Gaston T, Gradinger R, Hunt G, Moore SE, Renaud P, Rysgaard S (contributing authors) (2011). Climate Change and the Cryosphere: Snow, Water, Ice, and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) - An Arctic Council ‘Cryosphere Project’ in Cooperation with IASC, CliC and IPY. Chapter 3 - Biological Impacts of Changes to Sea Ice in the Arctic. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program. http://amap.no/swipa/
Piepenburg D, Archambault P, Ambrose WG Jr, Blanchard A, Bluhm BA, Carroll ML, Conlan K, Cusson M, Feder HM, Grebmeier JM, Jewett SC, Lévesque M , Petryashev VV, Sejr MK, Sirenko B, Włodarska-Kowalczuk M (2011) Towards a pan-Arctic inventory of the species diversity of the macro- and megabenthic fauna of the Arctic shelf seas. Marine Biodiversity 41:51-70
Sharma J, Baguley J, Bluhm BA, Rowe G (2011) Do meio- and macrobenthic nematodes differ in community composition and body weight trends with depth? PLoS ONE 6(1): e14491
Gradinger R, BluhmBA, HopcroftRR, GebrukA, Kosobokova, Sirenko B,WęsławskiJM (2010) Chapter 10. Marine life in the Arctic. In: MacIntyre A (ed) Life in the world’s ocean: diversity, distribution, abundance. Wiley-Blackwell, pp 183-202
Bluhm BA, Gradinger RR, Schnack-Schiel SB (2010) Sea ice meio- and macrofauna. In: Thomas D, Dieckmann G (eds) Sea ice. 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp 357-394
Bluhm B, Watts D, Huettmann F (2010) Free database availability, metadata and the Internet: an example of two high latitude components of the Census of Marine Life. In: Huettmann F, Cushman S.A. (eds) Spatial complexity, informatics and wildlife conservation. Springer, Tokyo, pp 233-244
Gradinger R, Bluhm B, Iken K (2010) Arctic sea ice ridges – safe havens for sea ice fauna during periods of extreme ice melt? Deep-Sea Research II 57:86-95
Iken K, Bluhm BA, Dunton K (2010) Benthic food web structure serves as indicator of water mass properties in the southern Chukchi Sea. Deep-Sea Research II 57:71-85
Wei C-K, Rowe GT, Escobar-Briones E, Boetius A, Soltwedel T, Caley MJ, Soliman Y, Huettmann F, Qu F, Yu Z, Pitcher CR, Haedrich RL, Wicksten MK, Rex MA, Baguley JG, Sharma J, Danovaro R, MacDonald IR, Nunnally CC, Deming JW, Montagna P, Lévesque M, Weslawski JM, Wlodarska-Kowalczuk M, Ingole BS, Bett BJ, Yool A, Bluhm BA, Iken K, Narayanaswamy BE (2010) Global patterns and predictions of seafloor biomass using random forests. PLoS ONE 5(12): e15323
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
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