Arctic Ocean and Sea Ice Ecology

Research Focus

• Nutrient, carbon and nitrogen cycles
• Primary and secondary production, vertical flux
• Habitat (sea ice, plankton, benthos) ecology including linkages
• Arctic year-round seasonality
• Polar night ecology
• Biodiversity (from microbes to bacteria and algae)
• Pan Arctic Integration

Research projects 

• Arctic ABC programme
• Arctic SIZE 
• A-TWAIN (Long term variability and trends in the Atlantic Water Inflow region)
• BREATHE (Bottom sea ice Respiration and nutrient Exchanges Assessed for THE Arctic)
• CLEAN (Cumulative impact of multiple stressors in high north ecosystems)
• HAVOC (Ridges - a MOSAiC project)
• Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)
• The Nansen Legacy (NFR, 2018-2024)
• SUDARCO- Sustainable development of the Arctic Ocean

People and expertise

• Jørgen Berge, polar night, DVM, climate change

• Bodil Bluhm, sea ice ecology, benthos, pan-Arctic integration

• Marit Reigstad, Vertical carbon flux, nitrate fluxs, arctic marine ecosystems

• Paul Wassmann (emeritus - Pan Arctic Integration)

• Rolf Gradinger, sea ice ecology, phytoplankton, primary production with link

• Camilla Svensen, Zooplankton Seasonality, production and connection to the biological pump

• Malin Daase, zooplankton, seasonal studies, polar night ecology

• Fredrika Norrbin, zooplankton vertical zonation and habitat choice

• Karley Campbell, sea ice microbiology

Key National and International Partners

• SAMS 
• NPI
• IMR
• UiO
• UiB
• IOPAN
• UAF
• AWI
• UNIS
• NTNU