• Assessing net primary production in the northwestern Barents Sea using in situ, remote sensing and modelling approaches 

      Castro de la Guardia, Laura; Hernández Fariñas, Tania; Marchese, Christian; Amargant I Arumi, Marti; Myers, Paul G.; Bélanger, Simon; Assmy, Philipp Kurt Wolf; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Duarte, Pedro (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-24)
      The northwestern Barents Sea (NW-BS) is a highly productive region within the transitional zones of an Atlantic to Arctic-dominated marine ecosystem. The steep latitudinal gradients in sea ice concentration, Atlantic and Arctic Water, offer an opportunity to test hypotheses on physical drivers of spatial and temporal variability of net primary production (NPP). However, quantifying NPP in such a ...
    • Earlier sea-ice melt extends the oligotrophic summer period in the Barents Sea with low algal biomass and associated low vertical flux 

      Kohlbach, Doreen; Goraguer, Lucie; Bodur, Yasemin V.; Müller, Oliver; Amargant Arumí, Martí; Blix, Katalin; Bratbak, Gunnar; Chierici, Melissa; Dabrowska, Anna Maria; Dietrich, Ulrike; Edvardsen, Bente; Garcia, Laura; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Hop, Haakon; Jones, Elizabeth Marie; Øyvind, Lundesgaard; Olsen, Lasse Mork; Reigstad, Marit; Saubrekka, Karoline; Tatarek, Agnieszka; Wiktor, Josef Maria; Wold, Anette; Assmy, Philipp (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-03-27)
      The decrease in Arctic sea-ice extent and thickness as a result of global warming will impact the timing, duration, magnitude and composition of phytoplankton production with cascading effects on Arctic marine food-webs and biogeochemical cycles. Here, we elucidate the environmental drivers shaping the composition, abundance, biomass, trophic state and vertical flux of protists (unicellular eukaryotes), ...
    • First trait-based characterization of Arctic ice meiofauna taxa 

      Patrohay, Evan; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Marquardt, Miriam; Bluhm, Bodil (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-18)
      Trait-based approaches connect the traits of species to ecosystem functions to estimate the functional diversity of communities and how they may respond to environmental change. For the first time, we compiled a traits matrix across 11 traits for 28 species of Arctic ice meiofauna, including Copepoda (Subclass), Nematoda (Phylum), Acoela (Order), Rotifera (Phylum), and Cnidaria (Phylum). Over 50 years ...
    • Interannual differences in sea ice regime in the north-western Barents Sea cause major changes in summer pelagic production and export mechanisms 

      Amargant I Arumi, Marti; Müller, Oliver; Bodur, Yasemin Vicdan; Ntinou, Iliana Vasiliki; Vonnahme, Tobias; Assmy, Philipp Kurt Wolf; Kohlbach, Doreen; Chierici, Melissa; Jones, Elizabeth Marie; Olsen, Lasse Mork; Tsagaraki, Tatiana; Reigstad, Marit; Bratbak, Gunnar; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-22)
      The Barents Sea is a highly dynamic and productive marine ecosystem and a hotspot of global warming. Variability in sea ice extent is a common feature in the Barents Sea with substantial movements of the sea ice edge on short-term, seasonal to interannual time scales. Historically the northern Barents Sea (north of 75◦N) has been ice-covered in winter, but recently it has become the area with most ...
    • Light and freshwater discharge drive the biogeochemistry and microbial ecology in a sub-Arctic fjord over the Polar night 

      Vonnahme, Tobias R.; Klausen, Line; Bank, R.M.; Michellod, D.; Lavik, G.; Dietrich, Ulrike; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-30)
      The polar night has recently received increased attention as a surprisingly active biological season. Yet, polar night microbial ecology is a vastly understudied field. To identify the physical and biogeochemical parameters driving microbial activity over the dark season, we studied a sub-Arctic fjord system in northern Norway from autumn to early spring with detailed monthly sampling. We focused ...
    • Light and freshwater discharge drive the biogeochemistry and microbial ecology in a sub-Arctic fjord over the Polar night 

      Vonnahme, Tobias; Klausen, Line; Bank, R.M.; Michellod, D.; Lavik, G.; Dietrich, Ulrike; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-30)
      The polar night has recently received increased attention as a surprisingly active biological season. Yet, polar night microbial ecology is a vastly understudied field. To identify the physical and biogeochemical parameters driving microbial activity over the dark season, we studied a sub-Arctic fjord system in northern Norway from autumn to early spring with detailed monthly sampling. We focused ...
    • Multiomics in the central Arctic Ocean for benchmarking biodiversity change 

      Mock, Thomas; Boulton, William; Balmonte, John-Paul; Barry, Kevin; Bertilsson, Stefan; Bowman, Jeff; Buck, Moritz; Bratbak, Gunnar; Chamberlain, Emelia J.; Cunliffe, Michael; Creamean, Jessie; Ebenhöh, Oliver; Eggers, Sarah Lena; Fong, Allison A.; Gardner, Jessie; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Granskog, Mats A.; Havermans, Charlotte; Hill, Thomas; Hoppe, Clara J.M.; Korte, Kerstin; Larsen, Aud; Müller, Oliver; Nicolaus, Anja; Oldenburg, Ellen; Popa, Ovidiu; Rogge, Swantje; Schäfer, Hendrik; Shoemaker, Katyanne; Snoeijs-Leijonmalm, Pauline; Torstensson, Anders; Valentin, Klaus; Vader, Anna; Barry, Kerrie; Chen, I-M A; Clum, Alicia; Copeland, Alex; Daum, Chris; Eloe-Fadrosh, Emiley; Foster, Brian; Foster, Bryce; Grigoriev, Igor V.; Huntemann, Marcel; Ivanova, Natalia; Kuo, Alan; Kyrpides, Nikos C.; Mukherjee, Supratim; Palaniappan, Krishnaveni; Reddy, T.B.K.; Salamov, Asaf; Roux, Simon; Varghese, Neha; Woyke, Tanja; Wu, Dongying; Leggett, Richard M.; Moulton, Vincent; Metfies, Katja (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-17)
      Multiomics approaches need to be applied in the central Arctic Ocean to benchmark biodiversity change and to identify novel species and their genes. As part of MOSAiC, EcoOmics will therefore be essential for conservation and sustainable bioprospecting in one of the least explored ecosystems on Earth.
    • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition- Atmosphere 

      Shupe, Matthew D.; Rex, Markus; Blomquist, Byron; G. Persson, P. Ola; Schmale, Julia; Uttal, Taneil; Althausen, Dietrich; Angot, Hélène; Archer, Stephen; Bariteau, Ludovic; Beck, Ivo; Bilberry, John; Bucci, Silvia; Buck, Clifton; Boyer, Matt; Brasseur, Zoé; Brooks, Ian M.; Calmer, Radiance; Cassano, John; Castro, Vagner; Chu, David; Costa, David; Cox, Christopher J.; Creamean, Jessie; Crewell, Susanne; Dahlke, Sandro; Damm, Ellen; de Boer, Gijs; Deckelmann, Holger; Dethloff, Klaus; Dütsch, Marina; Ebell, Kerstin; Ehrlich, André; Ellis, Jody; Engelmann, Ronny; Fong, Allison A.; Frey, Markus M.; Gallagher, Michael R.; Ganzeveld, Laurens; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Graeser, Jürgen; Greenamyer, Vernon; Griesche, Hannes; Griffiths, Steele; Hamilton, Jonathan; Heinemann, Günther; Helmig, Detlev; Herber, Andreas; Heuzé, Céline; Hofer, Julian; Houchens, Todd; Howard, Dean; Inoue, Jun; Jacobi, Hans-Werner; Jaiser, Ralf; Jokinen, Tuija; Jourdan, Olivier; Jozef, Gina; King, Wessley; Kirchgaessner, Amelie; Klingebiel, Marcus; Krassovski, Misha; Krumpen, Thomas; Lampert, Astrid; Landing, William; Laurila, Tiia; Lawrence, Dale; Lonardi, Michael; Loose, Brice; Lüpkes, Christof; Maahn, Maximilian; Macke, Andreas; Maslowski, Wieslaw; Marsay, Christopher; Maturilli, Marion; Mech, Mario; Morris, Sara; Moser, Manuel; Nicolaus, Marcel; Ortega, Paul; Osborn, Jackson; Pätzold, Falk; Perovich, Donald K.; Petäjä, Tuukka; Pilz, Christian; Pirazzini, Roberta; Posman, Kevin; Powers, Heath; Pratt, Kerri A.; Preußer, Andreas; Quéléver, Lauriane; Radenz, Martin; Rabe, Benjamin; Rinke, Annette; Sachs, Torsten; Schulz, Alexander; Siebert, Holger; Silva, Tercio; Solomon, Amy; Sommerfeld, Anja; Spreen, Gunnar; Stephens, Mark; Stohl, Andreas; Svensson, Gunilla; Uin, Janek; Viegas, Juarez; Voigt, Christiane; von der Gathen, Peter; Wehner, Birgit; Welker, Jeffrey M.; Wendisch, Manfred; Werner, Martin; Xie, ZhouQing; Yue, Fange (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-07)
      With the Arctic rapidly changing, the needs to observe, understand, and model the changes are essential. To support these needs, an annual cycle of observations of atmospheric properties, processes, and interactions were made while drifting with the sea ice across the central Arctic during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition from October ...
    • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Physical oceanography 

      Rabe, Benjamin; Baumann, Till Martin; Divine, Dmitry; Fer, Ilker; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Granskog, Mats; Koenig, Zoe Charlotte; Muilwijk, Morven; Sundfjord, Arild; Heuze´, Céline; Regnery, Julia; Aksenov, Yevgeny; Allerholt, Jacob; Athanase, Marylou; Bai, Youcheng; Basque, Chris; Bauch, Dorothea; Chen, Dake; Cole, Sylvia T.; Craw, Lisa; Davies, Andrew; Damm, Ellen; Dethloff, Klaus; Doglioni, Francesca; Ebert, Falk; Fang, Ying-Chih; Fong, Allison A.; Graupner, Rainer; Haas, Christian; He, Hailun; He, Yan; Hoppmann, Mario; Janout, Markus; Kadko, David; Kanzow, Torsten; Karam, Salar; Kawaguchi, Yusuke; Kong, Bin; Krishfield, Richard A.; Krumpen, Thomas; Kuhlmey, David; Kuznetsov, Ivan; Lan, Musheng; Laukert, Georgi; Lei, Ruibo; Li, Lao; Torres-Valdés, Sinhué; Lin, Lina; Lin, Long; Liu, Hailong; Liu, Na; Loose, Brice; Ma, Xiaobing; McKay, Rosalie; Mallet, Maria; Mallet, Robbie D .C.; Maslowski, Wieslaw; Mertens, Christian; Mohrholz, Volker; Nicolaus, Marcel; O'Brien, Jeffrey K.; Perovich, Donald; Ren, Jian; Rex, Markus; Ribeiro, Natalia; Rinke, Annette; Sokolov, Vladimir; Sommerfeld, Anja; Spreen, Gunnar; Stanton, Timothy; Stephens, Mark; Su, Jie; Sukhikh, Natalia; Thomisch, Karolin; Tippenhauer, Sandra; Toole, John M.; Vredenborg, Myriel; Walter, Maren; Wang, Hangzhou; Wang, Lei; Wang, Yuntao; Wendisch, Manfred; Zhao, Jinping; Zhou, Meng; Zhu, Jialiang (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-07)
      Arctic Ocean properties and processes are highly relevant to the regional and global coupled climate system, yet still scarcely observed, especially in winter. Team OCEAN conducted a full year of physical oceanography observations as part of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of the Arctic Climate (MOSAiC), a drift with the Arctic sea ice from October 2019 to September 2020. ...
    • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice 

      Marcel, Nicolaus; Perovich, Donald; Spreen, Gunnar; Granskog, Mats; Divine, Dmitry; Gerland, Sebastian; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Høyland, Knut Vilhelm; Salganik, Evgenii; Albedyll, Luisa von; Angelopoulos, Michael; Anhaus, Philipp; Arndt, Stefanie; Belter, H. Jakob; Bessonov, Vladimir; Birnbaum, Gerit; Brauchle, Jörg; Calmer, Radiance; Cardellach, Estel; Cheng, Bin; Clemens-Sewall, David; Dadic, Ruzica; Damm, Ellen; de Boer, Gijs; Demir, Oguz; Dethloff, Klaus; Fong, Allison A.; Fons, Steven; Frey, Markus M.; Fuchs, Niels; Gabarro, Carolina; Goessling, Helge F.; Haapala, Jari; Haas, Christian; Hamilton, Jonathan; Hannula, Henna-Reetta; Hendricks, Stefan; Herber, Andreas; Heuze´, Céline; Hoppmann, Mario; Huntemann, Marcus; Hutchings, Jennifer K.; Kaleschke, Lars; Katlein, Christian; Kolabutin, Nikolai; Krampe, Daniela; Savstrup Kristensen, Steen; Krumpen, Thomas; Kurtz, Nathan; Lampert, Astrid; Lange, Benjamin Allen; Lei, Ruibo; Light, Bonnie; Linhardt, Felix; Liston, Glen E.; Loose, Brice; Macfarlane, Amy R.; Mahmud, Mallik; Matero, Ilkka O.; Maus, Sönke; Morgenstern, Anne; Naderpour, Reza; Nandan, Vishnu; Niubom, Alexey; Oggier, Marc; Oppelt, Natascha; Pätzold, Falk; Perron, Christophe; Petrovsky, Tomasz; Pirazzini, Roberta; Polashenski, Chris; Rabe, Benjamin; Raphael, Ian A.; Regnery, Julia; Rex, Markus; Ricker, Robert; Riemann-Campe, Kathrin; Rinke, Annette; Rohde, Jan; Scharien, Randall K.; Schiller, Martin; Schneebeli, Martin; Semmling, Maximilian; Shimanchuk, Egor; Stroeve, Julienne; Thielke, Linda; Timofeeva, Anna; Tonboe, Rasmus Tage; Tavri, Aikterini; Tsamados, Michel; Wagner, David N.; Watkins, Daniel; Webster, Melinda; Wendisch, Manfred (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-07)
      Year-round observations of the physical snow and ice properties and processes that govern the ice pack evolution and its interaction with the atmosphere and the ocean were conducted during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition of the research vessel Polarstern in the Arctic Ocean from October 2019 to September 2020. This work was embedded ...
    • Photophysiological responses of bottom sea-ice algae to fjord dynamics and rapid freshening 

      Forgereau, Zoé Lulu; Lange, Benjamin Allen; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Assmy, Philipp Kurt Wolf; Osanen, Janina; Martín, Laura; Søreide, Janne; Granskog, Mats; Leu, Eva; Campbell, Karley Lynn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-13)
      Sea ice algae have a broad salinity tolerance but can experience stress during rapid decreases in salinity that occur with seasonal ice melt and during ice sample melt. This study investigated the impact of salinity on the photophysiological responses of bottom-ice algal communities from two Svalbard fjords (Tempelfjorden and Van Mijenfjorden). To further investigate the impact of salinity alone, ...
    • Seasonal dynamics of sea-ice protist and meiofauna in the northwestern Barents Sea 

      Marquardt, Miriam; Goraguer, Lucie Hélène Marie; Assmy, Philipp Kurt Wolf; Bluhm, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro; Aaboe, Signe; Down, Emily; Patrohay, Evan; Edvardsen, Bente; Tatarek, Agnieszka; Smola, Zofia; Wiktor, Józef; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-27)
      The rapid decline of Arctic sea ice makes understanding sympagic (ice-associated) biology a particularly urgent task. Here we studied the poorly known seasonality of sea-ice protist and meiofauna community composition, abundance and biomass in the bottom 30 cm of sea ice in relation to ice properties and ice drift trajectories in the northwestern Barents Sea. We expected low abundances during the ...
    • Seasonality in land–ocean connectivity and local processes control sediment bacterial community structure and function in a High Arctic tidal flat 

      Handler, Eleanor R.; Andersen, Sebastian; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Mcgovern, Maeve; Vader, Anna; Poste, Amanda Elizabeth (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-18)
      Climate change is altering patterns of precipitation, cryosphere thaw, and land–ocean influxes, affecting understudied Arctic estuarine tidal flats. These transitional zones between terrestrial and marine systems are hotspots for biogeochemical cycling, often driven by microbial processes. We investigated surface sediment bacterial community composition and function from May to September along a ...
    • Still Arctic? — The changing Barents Sea 

      Gerland, Sebastian; Ingvaldsen, Randi Brunvær; Reigstad, Marit; Sundfjord, Arild; Bogstad, Bjarte; Chierici, Melissa; Hop, Haakon; Renaud, Paul Eric; Smedsrud, Lars Henrik; Stige, Leif Christian; Årthun, Marius; Berge, Jørgen; Bluhm, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro; Borgå, Katrine; Bratbak, Gunnar; Divine, Dmitry V; Eldevik, Tor; Eriksen, Elena; Fer, Ilker; Fransson, Agneta; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Granskog, Mats A.; Haug, Tore; Husum, Katrine; Johnsen, Geir; Jonassen, Marius Opsanger; Jørgensen, Lis Lindal; Kristiansen, Svein; Larsen, Aud; Lien, Vidar Surén; Lind, Sigrid; Lindstrøm, Ulf Ove; Mauritzen, Cecilie; Melsom, Arne; Mernild, Sebastian H.; Müller, Malte; Nilsen, Frank; Primicerio, Raul; Søreide, Janne; van der Meeren, Gro Ingleid; Wassmann, Paul (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-13)
      The Barents Sea is one of the Polar regions where current climate and ecosystem change is most pronounced. Here we review the current state of knowledge of the physical, chemical and biological systems in the Barents Sea. Physical conditions in this area are characterized by large seasonal contrasts between partial sea-ice cover in winter and spring versus predominantly open water in summer and ...
    • Temporal and spatial variability of sympagic metazoans in a high-Arctic fjord, Svalbard 

      Pitusi, Vanessa; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Søreide, Janne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-08)
      Svalbard is one of the fastest warming regions in the Arctic including massive loss in fjord sea ice both in terms of area coverage, ice thickness and duration. Sea ice is a habitat for a wide variety of microscopic flora and fauna, and we know little about the impact of accelerated loss of sea ice on this unique sea ice community. Here, we present the first study on the seasonal progression and ...
    • What we do in the dark: Prevalence of omnivorous feeding activity in Arctic zooplankton during polar night 

      Kunisch, Erin; Graeve, Martin; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Flores, Hauke; Varpe, Øystein; Bluhm, Bodil (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-07-04)
      During the productive polar day, zooplankton and sea-ice amphipods fulfill a critical role in energy transfer from primary producers to higher trophic-level species in Arctic marine ecosystems. Recent polar night studies on zooplankton and sea-ice amphipods suggest higher levels of biological activity than previously assumed. However, it is unknown if these invertebrates maintain polar night activity ...