High activity at the marinelab in the dark season

Institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

The team from WHOI investigated larval biology in the polar night. Earlier studies in Ny-Ålesund had shown that planktotrophic larvae was feeding in the polar night, which was surprising. This begged the question of how they are surviving, what they are eating, etc.
Photo: Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser

Institution: The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) and the Norwegian Polar Institute
The UiT/NPI team investigated the effects of ocean acidification, temperature, and salinity on the fitness of male arctic copepods in Kongsfjorden. The results will give information about how male arctic copepods reacts to climate change. Calanus glacialis.
Photo: Allison Bailley

Institution: The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
The team from NTNU brought together experts from different fields of biology to quantify the effects of light to the biological relationships and key functions in Arctic and Nordic ecosystems using a variety of platforms ranging from ships to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Photo: Karoline H. Barstein

Institution: The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)

The researchers from UiT has hypothesized that the susceptibility of marine arctic organisms towards light pollution is likely to be high. Can biological surveys in a reliably way be carried out in the dark from vessels illuminated by artificial light?
Photo: Emily Venables

Institution: Université de La Rochelle and Alfred Wegener Institute

The researchers from Université de La Rochelle (France) and Alfred Wegener Institute (Germany) collected many petri dishes with benthic fauna as they were studying the community structure to further understand the connectivity between different polar coastal ecosystems.
Photo: Benoit Lebreton