Bilde av Bluhm, Bodil
Bilde av Bluhm, Bodil
Department of Arctic and Marine Biology bodil.bluhm@uit.no +4777644382 You can find me here

Bodil Bluhm


Professor

Job description

Arctic marine ecology

50% teaching and service, 50% research


  • 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 ARKIV / DATA / FULLTEKST / PROSJEKT / DOI
  • Èric Jordà-Molina, Paul E. Renaud, Marc J. Silberberger, Arunima Sen, Bodil A. Bluhm, Michael L. Carroll et al.:
    Seafloor warm water temperature anomalies impact benthic macrofauna communities of a high-Arctic cold-water fjord
    Marine Environmental Research 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Erin Kunisch, Martin Graeve, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger, Hauke Flores, Øystein Varpe, Bodil Bluhm :
    What we do in the dark: Prevalence of omnivorous feeding activity in Arctic zooplankton during polar night
    Limnology and Oceanography 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • Amanda Fern Ziegler, Bodil A. Bluhm, Paul E. Renaud, Lis L. Jørgensen :
    Isotopic turnover of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) muscle determined through a controlled feeding experiment
    Journal of Fish Biology 2023 DATA / FULLTEKST / PROSJEKT / ARKIV / DOI
  • Randi Brunvær Ingvaldsen, Elena Eriksen, Harald Gjøsæter, Arill Engås, Birte Katarina Schuppe, Karen Assmann et al.:
    Under-ice observations by trawls and multi-frequency acoustics in the Central Arctic Ocean reveals abundance and composition of pelagic fauna
    Scientific Reports 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • Èric Jordà-Molina, Arunima Sen, Bodil A. Bluhm, Paul E. Renaud, Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk, Joanna Legeżyńska et al.:
    Lack of strong seasonality in macrobenthic communities from the northern Barents Sea shelf and Nansen Basin
    Progress in Oceanography 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sebastian Gerland, Randi Brunvær Ingvaldsen, Marit Reigstad, Arild Sundfjord, Bjarte Bogstad, Melissa Chierici et al.:
    Still Arctic? — The changing Barents Sea
    Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bodil Bluhm :
    Biodiversity in the changing Arctic Ocean, should we care?
    2023
  • Joel Vikberg Wernström, Bodil Bluhm, Andreas Altenburger :
    Meiofaunal diversity and seasonality in the Barents Sea
    2023
  • Miriam Marquardt, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger :
    Sea-ice meiofauna biodiversity from the Nansen Legacy cruise Q2 (cruise number: 2021704) [Data set].
    2023 DATA
  • Miriam Marquardt, Ulrike Dietrich, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger :
    Sea-ice meiofauna biodiversity from the Nansen Legacy joint cruise JC1-2 (cruise number: 2018707) [Data set].
    2023 DATA
  • Miriam Marquardt, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger :
    Sea-ice meiofauna biodiversity from the Nansen Legacy cruise Q4 (cruise number: 2019711) [Data set].
    2023 DATA
  • Miriam Marquardt, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger :
    Sea-ice meiofauna biodiversity from the Nansen Legacy cruise Q3 (cruise number: 2019706) [Data set].
    2023 DATA
  • Miriam Marquardt, Haakon Hop, Amalia Keck, Peter Leopold, Mikko Vihtakari, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm et al.:
    Sea-ice associated fauna biodiversity sampled by divers under the ice from the Nansen Legacy cruise Q2 (cruise number: 2021704) [Data set].
    2023 DATA
  • Miriam Marquardt, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger :
    Sea-ice meiofauna biodiversity from the Nansen Legacy joint cruise JC2-2 (cruise number: 2021710) [Data set].
    2023 DATA
  • Miriam Marquardt, Evan Patrohay, Lucie Hélène Marie Goraguer, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger :
    Sea-ice meiofauna biodiversity from the Nansen Legacy joint cruise JC3 (cruise number: 2022702) [Data set].
    2023 DATA
  • Eric Jorda Molina, Henning Reiss, Arunima Sen, Paul Eric Renaud, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Mark Silberberger :
    Spatio-temporal dynamics of soft-bottom macrobenthic communities in a rapidly changing Arctic: a case study of the Northwestern Barents Sea
    Nord universitet 2023
  • Marit Reigstad, Sebastian Gerland, Tor Eldevik, Erin Kunisch, Ingrid Wiedmann, Arild Sundfjord et al.:
    The Nansen Legacy project invites you to its upcoming international symposium in November 2023
    2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Hanieh Saeedi, Heidi Kristina Meyer, Saskia Brix, 150 group Challenger :
    Status update of deep Arctic Ocean habitats and species diversity
    2023
  • William Williams, Kristina A. Brown, Lina Rotermund, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Seth Danielson, Mike Dempsey et al.:
    Patterns and Processes in the Kitikmeot Sea Estuary
    2023
  • Barbara Górska, Eric Jorda Molina, Henning Reiss, Paul Eric Renaud, Arunima Sen, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm et al.:
    Seasonal and Spatial Variability in Macrobenthic Size Structure and Functioning in the Northern Barents Sea
    2023
  • Joel Vikberg Wernström, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Katarzyna Grzelak, Andreas Altenburger :
    Meiofaunal diversity and seasonality in the Barents Sea
    2023
  • Per Joel Olof Vikberg Wernström, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Andreas Altenburger :
    Meiofaunal diversity and seasonality in the Barents Sea
    2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nathalie Calvet, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Andreas Altenburger :
    Shifting invertebrates in the Barents Sea over a century
    2023
  • Rolf Rudolf Gradinger, Marti Amargant I Arumi, Philipp Kurt Wolf Assmy, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Yasemin Vicdan Bodur, Gunnar Bratbak et al.:
    Ranges of Annual Production in the Barents Sea along Environmental Gradients
    2023
  • Irina Zhulay, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Emmelie Åström, Yngve Kristoffersen, John K. Hall :
    Life at the Bottom of the Central Arctic Ocean: Epibenthic Composition at Lomonosov Ridge and Morris Jessup Rise
    2023
  • 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
  • Agneta Fransson, Melissa Chierici, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Marit Reigstad :
    M. Into the deep Central Arctic Ocean – results from the Nansen Legacy Arctic Basin expedition 2021
    2023
  • Raphaelle Descoteaux, Mats Huserbråten, Lis Lindal Jørgensen, Paul Eric Renaud, Randi Brunvær Ingvaldsen, Elizaveta Ershova et al.:
    Origin of marine invertebrate larvae on an Arctic inflow shelf
    2023
  • M Nordstrom, Phoebe Armitage, Rosalyn Fredriksen, Irina Zhulay, Maria Fredrika Norrbin, Anna Tørnroos et al.:
    Epibenthic biodiversity, community assembly, and food web structure across an Arctic seascape.
    2023
  • Agneta Fransson, Melissa Chierici, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Marit Reigstad :
    Into the deep central Arctic Ocean – results from the Nansen Legacy expedition 2021
    2023
  • Miriam Marquardt, Vanessa Pitusi, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger :
    Sea-ice meiofauna biodiversity from the Nansen Legacy joint cruise JC2-1 (cruise number: 2021708) [Data set].
    2023 DATA
  • Miriam Marquardt, Philipp Assmy, Bente Edvardsen, Lucie Hélène Marie Goraguer, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger, Evan Patrohay et al.:
    Seasonal dynamics of sea ice protists and meiofauna in the northern Barents Sea
    2023
  • Snorre Flo, Camilla Svensen, Kim Præbel, Bodil Bluhm, Anna Vader :
    Seasonal prey composition of three small Arctic copepods assessed by metabarcoding
    2023
  • 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
  • Joel Vikberg Wernström, Bodil Bluhm, Andreas Altenburger :
    Meiofaunal diversity in the Barents Sea
    2022
  • Francesca Naletto, Nusar Likar, Shalaka Kiran Patil, Hilde Rief Armo, Bodil Bluhm, Lise Øvreås :
    Microbial Biogeography and spatial differences in Arctic marine Sediments from the Northen Barents Sea
    2022
  • Joel Vikberg Wernström, Bodil Bluhm, Andreas Altenburger :
    Meiofaunal diversity and seasonality in the Barents Sea
    2022
  • Snorre Flo, Camilla Svensen, Bodil Bluhm, Kim Præbel, Anna Vader :
    Small Arctic copepods – picky eaters or opportunistic generalists?
    2022

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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.

     

    Current projects

    Nansen Legacy (Norwegian Research Council), also read https://sciencenorway.no/blog-nansen-legacy-project

    Catchment to Coast (C2C) (Fram Center)

    Sustainable development of the Arctic Ocean SUARCO (Fram Center)

    Arctic Seasonal Ice Zone Ecology (Norwegian Government, UiT), see exhibition

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

    TUNU East Greenland Ecology

    Kitikmeot Sea Science Study (Polar Knowledge Canada)

    Recent projects

    Arctic Ocean ecosystems - Applied technology, Biological interactions and Consequences in an era of abrupt climate change, Arctic ABC (Norwegian Research Council)

    Long-term Benthos Monitoring network for detecting chance in the Arctic benthic ecosystem (LTM-Benthos) (Nordic Council of Ministries)

    Impact of chemosynthetic carbon sources in marine food webs at Arctic cold seeps (VISTA)

    The quest for the pole: Are southern species already capable of invading the Barents Sea? (Fram Center) Watch outreach video

    A knowledge platform for industrial macroalgae cultivation, MACROSEA (Norwegian Research Council)

     

    Teaching

    BIO 2513 Marine biodiversity, spring (Bachelor course)

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

     Contributing to:

    BIO 3009 Arctic Marine Pollution

    BIO1105 Introduction to Biology

    Current UiT students

    Snorre Flo - Diet assessment in small Arctic invertebrates using molecular tools (PhD, co-advisor, 2019-present)

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

    Joel Wernstrøm - Benthic metazoan meiofauna of the Barents Sea (PhD, 2022 - present)

    Hanna Dinevik - Age and growth of the Arctic brittle star Ophiopleura borealis (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) (MSc, 2023 - present)

    Frederike Hoppmann - Effects of river runoff on intertidal benthic communities, biodiversity and food webs (MSc, 2023 - present)

    Currently committee member outside of UiT for

    Thibaud Combaz, Univ. Laval Canada (PhD, 2023-present)

     

    Recent past students

    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)

    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 post-doc at UNIS

    Irina Zhulay - Arctic deep sea benthos: Biodiversity, food web, and biological and functional traits (PhD, 2022), now post-doc at UiB

    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)

    Liova Idahl - Functional composition of epibenthos in tidal passages in the Canadian Northwest Passage (BA thesis, 2021)

    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

    Susan Dugan - Epibenthic communities in Kaldfjord, northern Norway (MS, 2020)

     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



    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

    Current projects

    Nansen Legacy (Norwegian Research Council), also read https://sciencenorway.no/blog-nansen-legacy-project

    Catchment to Coast (C2C) (Fram Center)

    Sustainable development of the Arctic Ocean SUARCO (Fram Center)

    Arctic Seasonal Ice Zone Ecology (Norwegian Government, UiT) 

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

    TUNU East Greenland Ecology

    Kitikmeot Sea Science Study (Polar Knowledge Canada)

     

    Recent projects

    Arctic Ocean ecosystems - Applied technology, Biological interactions and Consequences in an era of abrupt climate change, Arctic ABC (Norwegian Research Council)

    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)