Physical Oceanography

Tverberg V, Cottier  FR, Nilsen F, Nøst OA, Svendsen H (2009) Warming of an arctic shelf - the recent AtlanticWater dominance of west Spitsbergen. Geophysical Research Letters (submitted)

Abrahamsen EP, ...., Ivanov V (2009) Tracer-derived freshwater composition of the Siberian continental shelf and slope following the extreme Arctic summer of 2007.  GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 36 (L0762)

Lenn YD, Wiles PJ, ..., Ivanov V (2009) Vertical mixing at intermediate depths in the Arctic boundary current.  GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 36 (L05601)

Nilsen F, Cottier, FR; Skogseth, R, Mattsson S. 2008. Fjord-shelf exchanges controlled by ice and brine production: The interannual variation of Atlantic Water in Isfjorden, Svalbard CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH 28(14)

Cottier, FR; Venables, EJ. (2007). On the double-diffusive and cabbeling environment of the Arctic Front, West Spitsbergen. POLAR RESEARCH 26(2): 152-159

Cottier, FR; Nilsen, F; Inall, ME; Gerland, S; Tverberg, V; Svendsen, H. 2007. Wintertime warming of an Arctic shelf in response to large-scale atmospheric circulation. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 34 (10)

Cottier, F; Tverberg, V; Inall, M; Svendsen, H; Nilsen, F; Griffiths, C. 2005. Water mass modification in an Arctic fjord through cross-shelf exchange: The seasonal hydrography of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS 110 (C12)

Sherwin, TJ; Turrell, WR. 2005. Mixing and advection of a cold water cascade over the Wyville Thomson Ridge. DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS 52 (8): 1392-1413.

Boyd, T. J., M. Steele, R. D. Muench, and J. T. Gunn, Partial Recovery of the Arctic Ocean Halocline, 2002. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 29, 14, 10.1029/2001GL014047.

Smith, J. N., K. M. Ellis, and T. Boyd, Circulation Features in the Western Arctic Ocean Revealed by Tracers from European Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plants, 1999. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS 104, 29,663-29,677.

Steele, M, and T. Boyd, (1998) Retreat of the Cold Halocline Layer in the Arctic Ocean, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS 103, 10,419-10,435.

Sea Ice

Dowdeswell, J.A., ..., Wilkinson, J.P, ...  others (2008). Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and investigations of the ice-ocean interface in Antarctic and Arctic waters. J Glaciology 54(187) 661-672

Wilkinson, J.P., Wadke, P.M., Meldrum, D., Mercer, D., Doble, M., Wadhams, P. (2008) The autonomous measurement of waves propagating across the Arctic Ocean.  2007 OCEANS, VOLS 1-5, 1435-1441.

Gascard, J.-C.,  Wilkinson, J.P and 24 others (2008). Exploring Arctic transpolar drift during dramtic sea ice retreat. EOS, 89 (15 Jan. 2008), p. 21-22

Wilkinson, J.P., P. Wadhams and N.E. Hughes (2007). Modelling the spread of oil under fast sea ice using three-dimensional multibeam sonar data. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS  34(22) L22506

Wilkinson, J.P., P. Wadhams and N.E. Hughes (2007). A Review of the Use of Sonar on Underwater Vechicles to Obtain Information on Sea Ice Draft. In: P. Wadhams and G. Amanatidis (eds.). Arctic Sea Ice Thickness: Past, Present & Future.

Doble, M J, Mercer, D J L, Meldrum, D T and Peppe, O C, 2006. Wave measurements on sea ice: developments in instrumentation. JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY, 44: 1-5.

Hughes, N.E. and P. Wadhams (2006). Measurement of Arctic sea ice thickness by submarine 5 years after SCICEX. ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY, 44.

Wilkinson, JP. 2006. Ice dynamics in the central Greenland sea. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS 111 (C12)

Wadhams, P; Wilkinson, JP; McPhail, SD. 2006. A new view of the underside of Arctic sea ice. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 33 (4)

Wilkinson, JP; Wadhams, P. 2005. A method of detecting change in the ice conditions of the central Greenland Sea by the whelping locations of harp seals. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE 18 (8): 1216-1226.

Wadhams, P; Wilkinson, JP; Kaletzky, A. 2004. Sidescan sonar imagery of the winter marginal ice zone obtained from an AUV. JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY 21 (9): 1462-1470.

Wilkinson, JP; Wadhams, P. 2003. A salt flux model for salinity change through ice production in the Greenland Sea, and its relationship to winter convection. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS 108 (C5)

Marine Geology and Geochemistry

Howe JA, Harland R, Cottier FR, et al. (2009) Dinoflagellate blooms as a proxy for Recent Atlantic Water advection in Arctic fjords. In Fjords: Depositional Systems & Archives:  Special Issue of British Geol. Soc. (submitted)

Mikkelsen DM, Rysgaard, S; Glud, RN 2008. Microalgal composition and primary production in Arctic sea ice: a seasonal study from Kobbeijord (Kangerluarsunnguaq), West Greenland . MARINE EGOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 368  65-74

Howe, J.A., Shimmield, T. M. and Harland, R. (2008). Late Quaternary contourites and glaciomarine sedimentation in the Fram Strait. SEDIMENTOLOGY  55(1) 179-200.

MacLachlan, S; Cottier, F; Austin, WEN; Howe, JA. (2007). The salinity:δ¹⁸O water relationship in Kongsfjorden, western Spitsbergen. POLAR RESEARCH 26(2): 160-167

Rysgaard, S; Glud, RN; Sejr, et al 2007. Denitrification activity and oxygen dynamics in Arctic sea ice. POLAR BIOLOGY 31(5) 527-537

Rysgaard, S; Glud, RN; Sejr, MK; Bendtsen, J; Christensen, PB. 2007. Inorganic carbon transport during sea ice growth and decay: A carbon pump in polar seas. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS 112 (C3)

Jorgensen, BB; Glud, RN; Holby, O. 2005. Oxygen distribution and bioirrigation in Arctic fjord sediments (Svalbard, Barents Sea). MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES 292: 85-95.

Rysgaard, S; Glud, RN; Risgaard-Petersen, N; Dalsgaard, T. 2004. Denitrification and anammox activity in Arctic marine sediments. LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY 49 (5): 1493-1502.

Glud, RN; Rysgaard, S; Fenchel, T; Nielsen, PH. 2004. A conspicuous H2S-oxidizing microbial mat from a high-latitude Arctic fjord (Young Sound, NE Greenland). MARINE BIOLOGY 145 (1): 51-60.

Rysgaard, S; Glud, RN. 2004. Anaerobic N-2 production in Arctic sea ice. LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY 49 (1): 86-94.

Howe, JA; Moreton, SG; Morri, C; Morris, P. 2003. Multibeam bathymetry and the depositional environments of Kongsfjorden and Krossfjorden, western Spitsbergen, Svalbard. POLAR RESEARCH 22 (2): 301-316.

Glud, RN; Kuhl, M; Wenzhofer, F; Rysgaard, S. 2002. Benthic diatoms of a high Arctic fjord (Young Sound, NE Greenland): importance for ecosystem primary production. MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES 238: 15-29.

Glud, RN; Risgaard-Petersen, N; Thamdrup, B; Fossing, H; Rysgaard, S. 2000. Benthic carbon mineralization in a high-Arctic sound (Young Sound, NE Greenland). MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES 206: 59-71.

Kostka, JE; Thamdrup, B; Glud, RN; Canfield, DE. 1999. Rates and pathways of carbon oxidation in permanently cold Arctic sediments. MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES 180: 7-21.

Glud, RN; Holby, O; Hoffmann, F; Canfield, DE. 1998. Benthic mineralization and exchange in Arctic sediments (Svalbard, Norway). MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES 173: 237-251.

Ecology

Wallace MI, Cottier FR, Brierley AS, Tarling GA, Berge J, Griffiths C (2009) Factors influencing seasonal patterns of zooplankton migration in high-latitudes. Limnology and Oceanography (submitted)

Berge J, Renaud PE, Eiane K, Gulliksen B, Cottier FR, Varpe Ø, Brattegard T (2009) Changes in the decapod fauna of an Arctic fjord during the last 100 years (1908–2007). POLAR BIOLOGY, Published Online

Berge J, Cottier FR, Last KS, et al (2009) Diel vertical migration of Arctic zooplankton during the polar night. BIOLOGY LETTERS 5(1) 69-72

Willis KJ, Cottier FR, Kwasniewski S (2008) The impact of warm water advection on the winter zooplankton community in an Arctic fjord. POLAR BIOLOGY. 31(4), 475-481.

Le Fouest V., B. Zakardjian, F. J. Saucier, Z.-P. Mei, D. Lefaivre, S. Bélanger, and M. Babin. 2008. Bio-optics and fate of terrestrial CDOM as key issues in biogeochemical modelling of Arctic and subarctic coastal seas. INTEGRATED MARINE BIOGEOCHEMISTRY and ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH, 9

Le Fouest V., B. Zakardjian, F. J. Saucier, and S. A. Cizmeli, Application of SeaWIFS- and AVHRR-derived data for mesoscale and regional validation of a 3-D high-resolution physical-biological model of the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada), 2006. JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS,  60(1-2), 30-50.

Cottier, FR; Tarling, GA; Wold, A; Falk-Petersen, S. 2006. Unsynchronized and synchronized vertical migration of zooplankton in a high arctic fjord. LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY 51 (6): 2586-2599

Willis, K; Cottier, F; Kwasniewski, S; Wold, A; Falk-Petersen, S. 2006. The influence of advection on zooplankton community composition in an Arctic fjord (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard). JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS 61 (1-2): 39-54.

Le Fouest V., B. Zakardjian, F. J. Saucier, and M. Starr, Seasonal versus synoptic variability in planktonic production in a high-latitude marginal sea: the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada).2005 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS, 110, C099012.

Narayanaswamy, BE; Bett, BJ; Gage, JD. 2005. Ecology of bathyal polychaete fauna at an Arctic-Atlantic boundary (Faroe-Shetland Channel, North-east Atlantic). MARINE BIOLOGY RESEARCH 1 (1): 20-32.

Wlodarska-Kowalczuk, M; Pearson, TH. 2004. Soft-bottom macrobenthic faunal associations and factors affecting species distributions in an Arctic glacial fjord (Kongsfjord, Spitsbergen). POLAR BIOLOGY 27 (3): 155-167.

Hop, H; Pearson, T; Hegseth, EN; Kovacs, KM; Wiencke, C; Kwasniewski, S; Eiane, K; Mehlum, F; Gulliksen, B; Wlodarska-Kowalezuk, M; Lydersen, C; Weslawski, JM; Cochrane, S; Gabrielsen, GW; Leakey, RJG; Lonne, OJ; Zajaczkowski, M; Falk-Petersen, S; Kendall, M; Wangberg, SA; Bischof, K; Voronkov, AY; Kovaltchouk, NA; Wiktor, J; Poltermann, M; di Prisco, G; Papucci, C; Gerland, S. 2002. The marine ecosystem of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. POLAR RESEARCH 21 (1): 167-208.

Policy & Governance 

Potts, T and Schofield, C. 2008. Current Legal Devleopments: The Arctic. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARINE AND COASTAL LAW 23: 151-176.

Scientific Diving

Lang, M.A and Sayer, M.D.J. (eds.) (2007). Scientific diving under ice: proceedings of the international diving under ice workshop. Smithsonian Institution: Washington, 213pp.

Sayer, M.D.J., Fraser, K.P.P., Shimmield, T.M. and Wilkinson, J.P. (2007). Under ice diving operations carried out by UK organisations in support of scientific research. In, Scientific diving under ice: proceedings of the international diving under ice workshop (Lang, M.A. and Sayer, M.D.J., eds.), pp. 95-110. Smithsonian Institution: Washington.

Sayer, M.D.J., Lang, M.A. and Mercer, S. (2007). The comparative incidence of decompression illness in Antarctic scientific divers. In, Scientific diving under ice: proceedings of the international diving under ice workshop (Lang, M.A. and Sayer, M.D.J., eds.), pp. 191-195. Smithsonian Institution: Washington.

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