• Advection of Mesozooplankton Into the Northern Svalbard Shelf Region 

      Wassmann, Paul; Slagstad, Dag; Ellingsen, Ingrid H. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-14)
      The northern Svalbard shelf region is part of the Atlantic advective contiguous domain along which nutrients, phyto- and mesozooplankton are advected with Atlantic Water from the Norwegian Sea along the Norwegian shelf break and into the Arctic Ocean. By applying the SINMOD model, we investigated how much mesozooplankton may be advected into the northern Svalbard shelf region. We also compared this ...
    • Arctic continental slopes sharp gradients of physical processes affect pelagic and benthic ecosystems. 

      Bluhm, Bodil; Janout, Markus; Danielson, Seth L.; Ellingsen, Ingrid H.; Gavrilo, Maria; Grebmeier, Jaqueline; Hopcroft, Russell R.; Iken, Katrin; Ingvaldsen, Randi Brunvær; Jørgensen, Lis Lindal; Kosobokova, Ksenia N.; Kwok, Ron; Polyakov, Igor V.; Renaud, Paul E.; Carmack, Eddy C. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-20)
      Continental slopes – steep regions between the shelf break and abyssal ocean – play key roles in the climatology and ecology of the Arctic Ocean. Here, through review and synthesis, we find that the narrow slope regions contribute to ecosystem functioning disproportionately to the size of the habitat area (∼6% of total Arctic Ocean area). Driven by inflows of sub-Arctic waters and steered by topography, ...
    • Borealization of the Arctic Ocean in response to anomalous advection from sub-Arctic seas. 

      Polyakov, Igor V.; Alkire, Mattew; Bluhm, Bodil; Brown, Kristina; Carmack, Eddy C.; Chierici, Melissa; Danielson, Seth L.; Ellingsen, Ingrid H.; Ershova, Elizaveta; Gardfeldt, Katrin; Ingvaldsen, Randi Brunvær; Pnyushkov, Andrey V.; Slagstad, Dag; Wassmann, Paul (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-03)
      An important yet still not well documented aspect of recent changes in the Arctic Ocean is associated with the advection of anomalous sub-Arctic Atlantic- and Pacific-origin waters and biota into the polar basins, a process which we refer to as borealization. Using a 37-year archive of observations (1981–2017) we demonstrate dramatically contrasting regional responses to atlantification (that part ...
    • Influence of Phytoplankton Advection on the Productivity Along the Atlantic Water Inflow to the Arctic Ocean 

      Vernet, Maria; Ellingsen, Ingrid H.; Seuthe, Lena; Slagstad, Dag; Cape, Mattias R.; Matrai, Patricia A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-27)
      Northwards flowing Atlantic waters transport heat, nutrients, and organic carbon in the form of zooplankton into the eastern Greenland Sea and Fram Strait. Less is known of the contribution of phytoplankton advection in this current, the Atlantic Water Inflow (AWI) spanning from the North Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean. The <i>in situ</i> and advected primary production was estimated using the ...
    • Middle to late Holocene paleoproductivity reconstructions for the western Barents Sea: a model-data comparison 

      Pathirana, Irene Dorothea; Knies, Jochen; Felix, Maarten; Mann, U.; Ellingsen, Ingrid H. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-30)
      In this study we focus on late Holocene primary productivity (PP) variability in the western Barents Sea and its response to variable sea ice coverage by combining PP reconstructed from several sediment cores with regional PP trends simulated with a well-constrained organic facies model, OF-Mod 3D. We find that modern production rates reconstructed from buried marine organic matter ...
    • Overexploitation, Recovery, and Warming of the Barents Sea Ecosystem During 1950–2013 

      Pedersen, Torstein; Mikkelsen, Nina; Lindstrøm, Ulf; Renaud, Paul Eric; Nascimento, Marcela C.; Blanchet, Marie-Anne; Ellingsen, Ingrid H.; Jørgensen, Lis L.; Blanchet, Hugues (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-17)
      The Barents Sea (BS) is a high-latitude shelf ecosystem with important fisheries, high and historically variable harvesting pressure, and ongoing high variability in climatic conditions. To quantify carbon flow pathways and assess if changes in harvesting intensity and climate variability have affected the BS ecosystem, we modeled the ecosystem for the period 1950–2013 using a highly trophically ...
    • Physical constrains and productivity in the future Arctic Ocean 

      Slagstad, Dag; Wassmann, Paul; Ellingsen, Ingrid H. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-10-20)
      Today's physical oceanography and primary and secondary production was investigated for the entire Arctic Ocean (AO) with the physical-biologically coupled SINMOD model. To obtain indications on the effect of climate change in the twenty-first century the magnitude of change, and where and when these may take place SINMOD was forced with down-scaled climate trajectories of the International Panel ...
    • Phytoplankton community succession and dynamics using optical approaches 

      Fragoso, Glaucia Moreira; Johnsen, Geir; Chauton, Matilde Skogen; Cottier, Finlo Robert; Ellingsen, Ingrid H. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-04)
      The phytoplankton in coastal regions are responding to constant environmental changes, thus the use of proxies derived from in situ frequent time-series observations and validated from traditional microscopic or pigment methods can be a solution for detecting rapid responses of community dynamics and succession. In this study, we combined in situ high-frequency (every 30 min from May to September ...
    • Simulating crude oil exposure, uptake and effects in North Atlantic Calanus finmarchicus populations 

      Broch, Ole Jacob; Nepstad, Raymond; Ellingsen, Ingrid H.; Bast, Radovan; Skeie, Morten; Carroll, JoLynn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-08)
      A simulation model framework (SYMBIOSES) that includes a 3-dimensional ocean physics and biology model and a model for transport and fate of oil was used to investigate the potential for bioaccumulation and lethal/sublethal effects of oil components in the copepod <i>Calanus finmarchicus</i> in the Lofoten-Vesterålen archipelago of Norway. The oil model is coupled with the biology model by way of a ...
    • Valuing blue carbon changes in the Arctic ocean 

      Armstrong, Claire W.; Foley, Naomi; Slagstad, Dag; Chierici, Melissa; Ellingsen, Ingrid H.; Reigstad, Marit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-25)
      The ocean capacity to store carbon is crucial, and currently absorbs about 25% CO<sub>2</sub> supply to the atmosphere. The ability to store carbon has an economic value, but such estimates are not common for ocean environments, and not yet estimated for the Arctic Ocean. With the severe climatic changes in the Arctic Ocean, impacting sea ice and potentially the vertical carbon transport mechanisms, ...