The Polar Oceans are among the ecosystems most impacted by climate change. This has implications for the important ecosystem services they provide for society. Two essential services include a unique biodiversity and a potential for climate change mitigation through a significant uptake of atmospheric CO2. The Polar Ocean Mitigation Potential (POMP) project aims to increase scientific knowledge on
On January 29th, the CLIM2Ant project, funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN), commenced to start on its four-year endeavor with a vibrant kickoff meeting conducted both in-person and online. It brought together world-leading scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute, NORCE, the University of Lapland, the University of Tasmania, and the University of Bergen. The meeting was filled with
The Arctic Frontiers Emerging Leaders program started in 2012. Every year the program gathers students and early-career professionals in the age group 18-35 years for a one week mentoring program on Arctic themes. The program has been led by Akvaplan-niva personell since the start. This year Linda Simensen and Amanda Ziegler from Akvaplan-niva was the administrators and mentors in the program whil
Akvaplan-niva og SALT samarbeider i prosjektet "Tilsig, opphold og ferdsel av søppel mellom strand og sjø: implikasjoner for maksimering av tiltak mot marin forsøpling". Hovedmålet med prosjektet har vært å gjennomføre kunnskapsinnhenting og metodeutvikling for å kunne tilby konsulenttjenester knyttet til opprydding, overvåking og forebygging av marin forsøpling.
Akvaplan-nivas oppgave i prosje
Akvaplan-niva har over en periode på 10 år ledet forskningsprosjektet SYMBIOSES som har gjennomført avanserte modellstudier av effekter av oljeutslipp på, for Norge, viktige kommersielle fiskebestander. Prosjektet har vært gjennomført i samarbeid med Havforskningsinstituttet, SINTEF og UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet. Prosjektet er finansiert av Norges Forskningsråd og en rekke operatører på norsk
Akvaplan-niva initiated Arctic Frontiers i 2007 in collaboration with a small group of partners. From 2019 Arctic Frontiers AS was established as a Akvaplan-niva owned daughter company. However, there is a powerful and large group of partners that take actively part in the development of this important platform for Arctic discourse. The 2024 edition of the Arctic Frontiers conference "Actions and
Av Sünnje L. Basedow, UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet (sunnje.basedow@uit.no)
Vi er på forskningstokt med UiT’s forskingsfartøy "Helmer Hanssen" for å studere overvintrende dyreplankton og deres fordeling langs Polarfronten. Hvilke arter er aktive i mørketiden og hva er deres bidrag i næringskjeden? Er det noen forskjell i dyreplanktonets fordeling i de arktiske og atlantiske vannmassene på Pol
By Fredrika Norrbin, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Did you know that tiny radiolarians, appendicularians living in temporary housing, and predatory arrow worms and jellyfish thrive in Arctic Seas in the Polar Night?
Copepod populations decline during winter, because the primary (plant) production is on hold, and predators are active. We may think of fish as the main enemies of zooplank
By: Maxime Geoffroy, Frida Cnossen, Einat Sandbank, Ingvild Ytterhus Utengen, and Paul Renaud
Part of the work conducted during the Polar Front campaign aims to understand the structure of pelagic communities across the Barents Sea Polar Front. These pelagic animals are comprised of fish living in the water column and macrozooplankton, drifting animals larger than 1cm. Pelagic animals play a c
By: Ingvild Ytterhus Utengen and Frida Cnossen (Akvaplan-niva)
Greetings from 78 degrees North! We are back in the Barents Sea to study trophic interactions around the Polar Front, collecting and identifying a variety of macrozooplankton and fish. However, this time we are also on an additional mission that was not relevant during the August cruise, but is interesting in this dark, cold, and st
By: Paul Renaud/Akvaplan-niva
Why does a group of 17 researchers cut short their holidays and leave home to board a ship headed to the Barents Sea in the middle of the Polar Night? January is known for changeable and often violent weather as Polar low-pressure systems form rapidly and sweep across the area. The darkness is nearly complete up here, with only a couple hours of faint light in the
By Rolf Gradinger, UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø
January 3rd nineteen scientists from Norwegian, Canadian and Polish institutions embarked RV Helmer Hanssen for a two week long expedition into the Barents Sea. Our science mission is to evaluate the winter time activity of the marine food web, from tiny bacteria and microalgae to fish. We are specifically interested in understanding any bi
