Fjord and Coastal Ecology

Research Focus

• Ecosystem modelling of North Norwegian fjords

• Effects of the invasive species Red King Crab on Norwegian coastal ecosystems

• Zooplankton community ecology, life cycles, productivity and phenology

• The biological pump and regulation mechanisms in coastal ecosystems

Research Projects

• MICROSNOW: Marine snow, pelagic-benthic coupling and the impact of the harpacticoid copepod Microsetella norvegica, and other agents in a high-latitude fjord (2017-2019), C. Svensen

• ArtAktiv; studentaktiv læring av marine arter gjennom bruk av ny teknologi (2017-2018), Svensen, Bluhm, Seuthe, Gradinger

• Pelagic ecosystems in ice-covered and ice-free fjords under climate change (2012-2014)

• TUNU Euro-Arctic marine fishes – diversity and adaptation

• Panarctic connectivity of zooplankton populations: the case of Pseudocalanus (2017)

• Impact of massive Winter Herring Abundances on the Kaldfjorden Environment (2017-2019)

People and expertise

• Jørgen Schou Christiansen (fish physiology, ecology of Arctic fishes, Greenland fjords)
• Inger-Britt Falk-Petersen
• Einar Magnus Nilssen (benthic and epibenthic crustaceans, population studies, Red King Crab
• Fredrika Norrbin (zooplankton ecology, small copepod life histories, phenology, Video Plankton Recorder)
• Torstein Pedersen (fish ecology and fisheries, ecopath modelling of fjord and coastal ecosystem, )
• Angelika Renner (physical oceanography)
• Camilla Svensen (zooplankton ecology, small copepod ecology and life history, biological pump)
• Ingrid Wiedmann (pelagic-benthic coupling, short-term sediment traps, drivers of the biological pump) 
• Helena Kling Michelsen (meroplankton)
• Bodil Bluhm
• Ulf Lindstrøm

Key National and International Partners

• Murmansk …
• The Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN) 
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
• Alfred-Wegener Institut (AWI)
• Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)
• The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)
• MARUM