Long-term variability and change of marine ecosystems

Research Focus

• Mooring-based ocean observatories Svalbard, since 2000s
• Sea ice and upper water column in ice-covered waters of the Arctic, since 2016 
• Pandalus borealis population structure, since 1980s
• Coastal hard-bottom benthos (N-Norway and Svalbard), since 1980s

Projects

• Arctic ABC programme 
• Kongsfjorden Rijpfjorden Observatory Programme -  KROP 
• Long-term variability and trends in the Atlantic Water inflow, A-TWAIN 
• Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate, MOSAiC
• SIOS InfraNOR 
• Arctic Passion - development of an A-DBO (Atlantic Arctic Distributed Biological Observing System)

Data archives

• National e-Infrastructure for Research Data (NIRD) 
• Norwegian Marine Data Centre (NMDC) 
• Svalbard Integrated Earth Observation System (SIOS) 
• UiT Open Research Data 

People and expertise

• Jørgen Berge
• Bodil Bluhm
• Einar Nilssen
• Marit Reigstad
• Daniel Vogedes

Key National and International Partners

• Akvaplan-Niva
• Institute of Marine Research
• Norwegian Polar Institute
• Scottish Association of Marine Science
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• The University Centre in Svalbard
• Alfred Wegener Institute