Can we detect changes in Arctic ecosystems?
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences
Abstract
Ecosystems are communities of organisms that interact with each other and their environment. They are often considered in terms of food webs or chains, which describe the interactions between different organisms and their relative hierarchies, known as trophic position. Ocean ecosystems provide key services, such as nutrition, control of climate, support of nutrient cycling and have cultural significance for certain communities. It is thus important that we understand how changes to the environment reshape ecosystems in order to manage climate change impacts.
The Arctic Ocean is already being heavily impacted by climate change. It is warming faster than any other ocean region and as it absorbs fossil fuel emissions, it is gradually acidifying. Arctic sea ice is declining by 10% per decade. This affects the availability of sea ice habitats for organisms from plankton to mammals and modifies the ocean environment. Finally, the Arctic is affected by changes in the magnitude of water movement to and from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and composition of these waters. Thus Arctic ecosystems are being impacted by multiple concurrent stressors and must adapt.
To understand how Arctic ecosystems will evolve in response to multiple stressors, it is crucial to evaluate the effects of on going change. Often these questions are tackled by studies that focus on a specific ecosystem in one location and document the various components of the food chain. However the Arctic is diverse, with a wide range of environments that are responding to unique stressors differently. We require a new approach that can provide information on Arctic ecosystems from a pan-Arctic perspective over decadal timescales.
To effectively monitor changes to pan-Arctic ecosystems requires tracers that focus on key ecosystem components and provide quantitative information on ecosystem structure, providing information for management and conservation of ecosystem services. Our goal is to respond to this challenge. We will focus simultaneously on the base of the food chain, controlled by the activity of marine phytoplankton, and key Arctic predators, harp and ringed seals. Seals are excellent candidates to monitor the food web due to their pan-Arctic distribution and foraging behaviour, which means they are exposed to the changing environment.
Nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes are often used to examine ecosystems as they are modified during trophic transfer up the food chain. Hence, they can quantify seal trophic position and food chain length, key determinants of ecosystem structure. Crucial in this context however is the isotope value of the base of the food web, known as the isoscape, which is itself affected by a range of environmental characteristics and fluctuates in space and time. Equally, by virtue of changing migration patterns, seals themselves may feed on similar prey in different isoscapes, which would affect the interpretation of ecosystem structure from stable isotopes. These are the major challenges in using stable isotopes.
We will link stable isotopes to novel tracers of the food web, known as biomarkers. When these tracers are compared against observations of the shifting isoscape and data on seal foraging, they permit seals to be used to monitor the Arctic ecosystem by quantifying their trophic position and overall food chain length. Via a range of observational platforms, our new food web tracers will be mechanistically linked to the spatial and seasonal trends in the Arctic isoscape and seal behaviour. By then combining historical observations from around the Arctic basin with state of the art ocean and seal population modelling, we can quantify past and future changes in Arctic ecosystems. This will provide information on past changes to Arctic ecosystems, but also put in place an approach that can be used to monitor future changes and aid in the management and conservation of ecosystem services.
The Arctic Ocean is already being heavily impacted by climate change. It is warming faster than any other ocean region and as it absorbs fossil fuel emissions, it is gradually acidifying. Arctic sea ice is declining by 10% per decade. This affects the availability of sea ice habitats for organisms from plankton to mammals and modifies the ocean environment. Finally, the Arctic is affected by changes in the magnitude of water movement to and from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and composition of these waters. Thus Arctic ecosystems are being impacted by multiple concurrent stressors and must adapt.
To understand how Arctic ecosystems will evolve in response to multiple stressors, it is crucial to evaluate the effects of on going change. Often these questions are tackled by studies that focus on a specific ecosystem in one location and document the various components of the food chain. However the Arctic is diverse, with a wide range of environments that are responding to unique stressors differently. We require a new approach that can provide information on Arctic ecosystems from a pan-Arctic perspective over decadal timescales.
To effectively monitor changes to pan-Arctic ecosystems requires tracers that focus on key ecosystem components and provide quantitative information on ecosystem structure, providing information for management and conservation of ecosystem services. Our goal is to respond to this challenge. We will focus simultaneously on the base of the food chain, controlled by the activity of marine phytoplankton, and key Arctic predators, harp and ringed seals. Seals are excellent candidates to monitor the food web due to their pan-Arctic distribution and foraging behaviour, which means they are exposed to the changing environment.
Nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes are often used to examine ecosystems as they are modified during trophic transfer up the food chain. Hence, they can quantify seal trophic position and food chain length, key determinants of ecosystem structure. Crucial in this context however is the isotope value of the base of the food web, known as the isoscape, which is itself affected by a range of environmental characteristics and fluctuates in space and time. Equally, by virtue of changing migration patterns, seals themselves may feed on similar prey in different isoscapes, which would affect the interpretation of ecosystem structure from stable isotopes. These are the major challenges in using stable isotopes.
We will link stable isotopes to novel tracers of the food web, known as biomarkers. When these tracers are compared against observations of the shifting isoscape and data on seal foraging, they permit seals to be used to monitor the Arctic ecosystem by quantifying their trophic position and overall food chain length. Via a range of observational platforms, our new food web tracers will be mechanistically linked to the spatial and seasonal trends in the Arctic isoscape and seal behaviour. By then combining historical observations from around the Arctic basin with state of the art ocean and seal population modelling, we can quantify past and future changes in Arctic ecosystems. This will provide information on past changes to Arctic ecosystems, but also put in place an approach that can be used to monitor future changes and aid in the management and conservation of ecosystem services.
Planned Impact
The main beneficiaries of this project will be policy makers concerned with conservation of Arctic marine mammals, Inuit communities, school pupils, teachers and the wider general public.
Throughout much of their range, seals and other mammals are important cultural and nutritional resources for indigenous and non-indigenous communities. However, seals are being measurably impacted by climate change. Our project will provide observational and modelling evidence regarding the drivers of alterations to seals' trophic position, food web structure or foraging behaviour over decadal time scales. Using multiple tools, we will delineate if changes in seal trophic position, food chain length or foraging behaviour are due to environmental factors (e.g. sea ice changes), variations in the base of the food web (e.g. from reduced nutrient supply) or the addition of new trophic levels (e.g. migration of boreal species). Our work directly benefits ongoing programmes that monitor the Arctic, such as the Five-year Science Research Agenda from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada). Our work will benefit work by DFO and aid Inuit communities develop adaptation strategies (Letter of Support from Ferguson, DFO). We will disseminate results from our project to key international organisations, such as the International Council for Exploration of the Seas (ICES) and North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO), facilitated by NAMMCO General Secretary and project partner, Desportes. Other project partners (Stenson, Hammill, Ferguson and Hop) are also involved in ICES and NAMMCO, as well as the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP), making them able to disseminate our results in the context of management and policy. A one year PDRA will collate, analyse and model historical data on harp and ringed seal body condition and fecundity alongside environmental variables and determine the factors driving long term change in seal populations, disseminating their findings to ICES and NAMMCO at international meetings. This will allow the practical and applied project outputs to inform management and policy for marine mammals in the Arctic, with the potential to affect future decision making for seal populations. Thus, we directly address NERC strategy by providing tools for the 'Management of Environmental Change'.
It is essential that our research outcomes are disseminated to the UK community. This is challenging but vital to recruit students into sciences, convince the public that it is worthwhile funding this type of research and increase awareness of the sensitivity of the Arctic to a changing climate. Our project will provide teachers with tools to demonstrate key concepts in our research programme. To this end, we will produce three posters to convey for example, 'Arctic food webs', 'Stable isotopes in Arctic ecology' and 'Impact of climate change on the Arctic' to school pupils in order to demonstrate how food webs operate in the Arctic. Posters will be hand-drawn by a visual artist with experience of communicating complex ideas concisely and digitized by co-PI Heath.
The general public tends to engage with popular wild life television programmes that illustrate the fauna of the Arctic and the pressures imposed by climate change. We will explain the vital role of microscopic phytoplankton and nutrients within the environment by creating one short accessible scored video, with combinations of film, hand and digital animations with commentaries aimed at the general public. The video will be distributed via a project YouTube channel and via our own website.
At the programme level we suggest (a) creating a dedicated programme website and social media outlets, (b) soliciting the BBC or Discovery Channel to produce a short documentary about the programme and (c) hiring an expert in science communication and impact to represent the programme and/or train members of the research programme in science communication.
Throughout much of their range, seals and other mammals are important cultural and nutritional resources for indigenous and non-indigenous communities. However, seals are being measurably impacted by climate change. Our project will provide observational and modelling evidence regarding the drivers of alterations to seals' trophic position, food web structure or foraging behaviour over decadal time scales. Using multiple tools, we will delineate if changes in seal trophic position, food chain length or foraging behaviour are due to environmental factors (e.g. sea ice changes), variations in the base of the food web (e.g. from reduced nutrient supply) or the addition of new trophic levels (e.g. migration of boreal species). Our work directly benefits ongoing programmes that monitor the Arctic, such as the Five-year Science Research Agenda from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada). Our work will benefit work by DFO and aid Inuit communities develop adaptation strategies (Letter of Support from Ferguson, DFO). We will disseminate results from our project to key international organisations, such as the International Council for Exploration of the Seas (ICES) and North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO), facilitated by NAMMCO General Secretary and project partner, Desportes. Other project partners (Stenson, Hammill, Ferguson and Hop) are also involved in ICES and NAMMCO, as well as the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP), making them able to disseminate our results in the context of management and policy. A one year PDRA will collate, analyse and model historical data on harp and ringed seal body condition and fecundity alongside environmental variables and determine the factors driving long term change in seal populations, disseminating their findings to ICES and NAMMCO at international meetings. This will allow the practical and applied project outputs to inform management and policy for marine mammals in the Arctic, with the potential to affect future decision making for seal populations. Thus, we directly address NERC strategy by providing tools for the 'Management of Environmental Change'.
It is essential that our research outcomes are disseminated to the UK community. This is challenging but vital to recruit students into sciences, convince the public that it is worthwhile funding this type of research and increase awareness of the sensitivity of the Arctic to a changing climate. Our project will provide teachers with tools to demonstrate key concepts in our research programme. To this end, we will produce three posters to convey for example, 'Arctic food webs', 'Stable isotopes in Arctic ecology' and 'Impact of climate change on the Arctic' to school pupils in order to demonstrate how food webs operate in the Arctic. Posters will be hand-drawn by a visual artist with experience of communicating complex ideas concisely and digitized by co-PI Heath.
The general public tends to engage with popular wild life television programmes that illustrate the fauna of the Arctic and the pressures imposed by climate change. We will explain the vital role of microscopic phytoplankton and nutrients within the environment by creating one short accessible scored video, with combinations of film, hand and digital animations with commentaries aimed at the general public. The video will be distributed via a project YouTube channel and via our own website.
At the programme level we suggest (a) creating a dedicated programme website and social media outlets, (b) soliciting the BBC or Discovery Channel to produce a short documentary about the programme and (c) hiring an expert in science communication and impact to represent the programme and/or train members of the research programme in science communication.
Organisations
- University of Liverpool (Lead Research Organisation)
- Norwegian Polar Institute (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Collaboration)
- University of Connecticut (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Collaboration)
- Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) (Collaboration)
- Stockholm University (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Laboratory of Climate Sciences and the Environment (LSCE) (Collaboration)
- Florida State University (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Stanford University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Collaboration)
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Project Partner)
- Norwegian Institute for Water Research (Project Partner)
- North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commision (Project Partner)
- Plymouth University (Project Partner)
- University of British Columbia (Project Partner)
- Stanford University (Project Partner)
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Project Partner)
- Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (Project Partner)
Publications
Tuerena RE
(2022)
Nutrient pathways and their susceptibility to past and future change in the Eurasian Arctic Ocean.
in Ambio
Francis A
(2023)
Permafrost degradation and nitrogen cycling in Arctic rivers: insights from stable nitrogen isotope studies
in Biogeosciences
Tuerena R
(2021)
Nitrate assimilation and regeneration in the Barents Sea: insights from nitrate isotopes
in Biogeosciences
Blévin P
(2020)
Pelagic vs Coastal-Key Drivers of Pollutant Levels in Barents Sea Polar Bears with Contrasted Space-Use Strategies.
in Environmental science & technology
Buchanan P
(2021)
The Regional Importance of Oxygen Demand and Supply for Historical Ocean Oxygen Trends
in Geophysical Research Letters
Tuerena R
(2021)
An Arctic Strait of Two Halves: The Changing Dynamics of Nutrient Uptake and Limitation Across the Fram Strait
in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Morten J
(2023)
Global warming and arctic terns: Estimating climate change impacts on the world's longest migration
in Global Change Biology
De La Vega C
(2019)
Temporal and spatial trends in marine carbon isotopes in the Arctic Ocean and implications for food web studies.
in Global change biology
De La Vega C
(2022)
Multi-decadal environmental change in the Barents Sea recorded by seal teeth.
in Global change biology
Studentship Projects
Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NE/P006035/1 | 01/04/2017 | 01/03/2022 | |||
2454985 | Studentship | NE/P006035/1 | 01/10/2017 | 30/09/2021 | Elliott Price |
Description | Our main findings so far are: 1. Spatial trends in the carbon isoscape in the Arctic Ocean can be explained by the influence of primary productivity and riverine influence. Decadal trends in the carbon isoscape in the Arctic Ocean can be explained by the Suess effect, as well as temporal changes in productivity, sea ice loss and fractionation. 2. Spatial trends in the nitrogen isoscape in the Arctic Ocean can be explained by the supply of nitrate alongside the extent of stratification, which dictates if phytoplankton nutrient uptake and fractionation adheres to an open or closed fractionation system. 3. PISCES-ISO model represents carbon and nitrogen isotopes well and is able to capture changes in the exchange of Atlantic and Pacific water. 4. Seal migration is strongly influenced by sea ice extent and the positioning of the marginal ice zone. Advanced models are able to delineate population and seasonal level migration patterns of harp seals. 5. Analysis of harp seal tissue for Atlantic- and Pacific-influenced regions of the Arctic Ocean reveal that the spatial trends in the baseline, influenced by water mass characteristics, are propagated up the food web. Caution needs to be taken when interpreting food webs from different regions of the Arctic and assignment of a predators' trophic position when the baseline is changing. 6. Temporal trends in isotopes in harp seal teeth reveal that the baseline has been altered in the Atlantic and Pacific sectors of the Arctic due to change in oceanographic conditions. The trophic position of seals has only been altered in the high Arctic and not the lower Arctic region, likely due to borealisation of the high Arctic. |
Exploitation Route | Results may be combined and help to improve modelling of harp seal populations. |
Sectors | Environment |
Description | Bursary from UK Arctic Office for James Grecian at St. Andrews |
Amount | ÂŁ17,963 (GBP) |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 03/2020 |
Description | NERC - outreach funds for CAO puppet show |
Amount | ÂŁ14,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2018 |
End | 01/2020 |
Description | NERC DTP studentship |
Amount | ÂŁ60,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 10/2018 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | Nitrogen fixation in the Arctic Ocean |
Amount | ÂŁ733,137 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/T001240/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2021 |
End | 07/2023 |
Description | UK-Canada Arctic Partnership Bursaries |
Amount | ÂŁ17,963 (GBP) |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2018 |
End | 02/2019 |
Title | Adaptation of published PNA-PCR assay for the genetic detection of organisms associated with copepods for PhD project |
Description | As part of a plan to detect diet of copepods, we had planned to use a modified method published method by Cleary et al. 2016 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.04.001). We now have successfully generated eukaryotic amplicon sequences from individual calanoid copepod zooplankton specimens. In brief this method entails application of a standard DNA marker alongside a Peptide nucleic acid oligonucleotide that blocks the amplification of calanoid copepod DNA which would normally overwhelm the sequencing results in favour of copepod. A trial showed a variety of signals from microoganism species that are present in the arctic and a few new ones but two products were present which was difficult to sequence. Together with the Centre for Genomic Research (CGR), the PCR conditions were changed to favour one PCR product which makes the method much quicker and safer. All experimental samples have now been sequenced and are undergoing analysis at the CGR but delayed due to COVID priority sequencing there. |
Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | This methodology is a small adaptation of that published by Cleary et al. 2016. The tool has not been made public yet as we are awaiting the sequencing results that are delayed because CGR have new COVID related priorities. |
Title | Identification of arctic copepods using 16S DNA barcoding primers |
Description | Identification of a subset of arctic copepods preserved in RNAlater or formalin was trialled using a modified mitochondrial 16S gene assay from Lindeque et al. 1999. The results match those of the original study but it needs further confirmation by sequencing before being published. |
Type Of Material | Biological samples |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | This assay has previously been used on other animals, buts its application in arctic copepods will improve identification tools in copepods significantly, especially in light of their poor representation in public databases. |
Title | ARISE project - Work package 2: Stable nitrogen isotopes of nitrate in sea water, and of bulk tissue and amino-acids of muscle of harp and ringed seals from the Arctic and sub-Arctic |
Description | This dataset includes stable nitrogen isotopes of 1- nitrate in sea water (d15NNO3) from three sites (i.e. Southern Barents Sea, Northern Barents Sea, Greenland Sea) and 2- of bulk tissue (d15Nbulk) and compound specific stable nitrogen isotopes on amino acids (d15NAA) measured in adult harp seals from five sites (i.e. Southern Barents Sea, Northern Barents Sea, Greenland Sea, Labrador shelf, Baffin Island) and in adult ringed seals from two sites (Baffin Island and Canadian Archipelago) in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. The sea water samples for analyses of d15NNO3 were collected in 2017 and 2018 as part as two ARISE cruises (JR16006 and JR17005). The seal samples were collected from 2015 to 2019 as part of Norwegian commercial sealing and student field courses from the University of Tromso in Norway (Northern and Southern Barents Sea, Greenland Sea) and the Inuit subsistence and commercial harvests in Canada (Labrador Sea, Baffin Island, Canadian Archipelago). Analyses of d15NNO3 were carried out at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Analyses of d15Nbulk and d15NAA of seal muscle tissue were carried out at the Liverpool Isotopes for Environmental Research laboratory, University of Liverpool. Results are reported here in standard delta-notation per-mil relative to atmospheric N2. Funding was provided by the ARISE project (NE/P006035/1 and NE/P006310/1), as part of the Changing Arctic Ocean programme, funded by the UKRI Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01374 |
Title | ARISE project - Work package 3: Stable nitrogen isotopes of bulk tissue and amino-acids of ringed seals muscle and teeth's growth layer groups of harp seals from the Arctic and sub-Arctic |
Description | This dataset includes stable nitrogen isotopes of bulk tissue (d15Nbulk) and compound specific stable nitrogen isotopes on amino acids (d15NAA) measured in harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) teeth from Southern Barents Sea, Greenland Sea, Northwest Atlantic, and ringed seal (Pusa hispida) muscles from Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Baffin Island, in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Teeth of harp seals from the Northwest Atlantic (n=48) were taken from archives in Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) St John's, Canada from 1979 to 2016. Teeth of harp seals from the Barents Sea (n=72) and Greenland Sea (n=55) were taken from archives of the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway, from 1963 to 2018 and 1953 to 2014, respectively. Muscle tissue from ringed seals were opportunistically sampled as part of Inuit subsistence harvests. Samples from the CAA were collected in Resolute from 1992 to 2016 (n=66). Muscle samples from the Baffin Bay were collected in Pangirtung from 1990 to 2016 (n=39). The seal samples were collected as part of Norwegian commercial sealing and student field courses from the University of Tromso in Norway (Barents Sea and Greenland Sea) and the Inuit subsistence and commercial harvests in Canada (Northwest Atlantic, Baffin Island, Canadian Archipelago). Analyses of d15Nbulk and d15NAA of seal tissue were carried out at the Liverpool Isotopes for Environmental Research laboratory, University of Liverpool. Results are reported here in standard dnotation (per mille) relative to atmospheric N2. This work resulted from the ARISE project (NE/P006035/1 and NE/P006310/1), as part of the Changing Arctic Ocean programme, funded by the UKRI Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01528 |
Title | Data from: Environmental drivers of population-level variation in the migratory and diving ontogeny of an Arctic top predator |
Description | The development of migratory strategies that enable juveniles to survive to recruitment is critical for species that exploit seasonal niches. For animals that forage via breath-hold diving this requires a combination of both physiological and foraging skill development. Here, we assess how migratory and dive behaviour develop over the first months of life for a migratory Arctic top predator, the harp seal, tracked using animal-borne satellite relay data loggers. We reveal similarities in migratory movements and differences in diving behaviour between juveniles from breeding populations in the Northwest Atlantic and Greenland Sea. In both regions, periods of resident and transient behaviour during migration were associated with proxies for food availability; sea ice concentration and water depth. However, while ontogenetic development of dive behaviour was similar for both groups of juveniles over the first 25 days, after this time Greenland Sea animals performed shorter and shallower dives and were more closely associated with sea ice than Northwest Atlantic animals. Together, these results highlight the role of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors in shaping early-life behaviour. Differences in the environmental conditions experienced during early-life may shape how populations respond to the rapid changes occurring in the Arctic ocean ecosystem. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | improved understanding of contrasts in seal development, in different areas/systems |
URL | http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.2jm63xsqh |
Title | JR16006 CTD Data |
Description | Fully processed CTD data from cruise JR16006 to the Barents Sea |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Used in CAO publications - papers still in review |
URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/89a3a6b8-7223-0b9c-e053-6c86abc... |
Title | JR16006 VMADCP data |
Description | Vessel Mounted ADCP data from cruise JR16006 to the Barents Sea (horizontal current velocities, depth resolved) Hopkins J.(2019). Vessel Mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (VMADCP) data from NERC Changing Arctic Ocean Cruise JR16006 on the RRS James Clark Ross, July 2017. British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi:10/dg53. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Publication submitted to a Special Issue in Philosophical Transactions A |
Title | JR17005 CTD data |
Description | Hopkins J.; Brennan D.; Abell R.; Sanders R.W.; Mountifield D.(2018). CTD data from NERC Changing Arctic Ocean Cruise JR17005 on the RRS James Clark Ross, May-June 2018. British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi:10/cspz. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Core physics database in support of the whole CAO programme (16 projects) |
URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/726f6dc8-cebf-427d-e053-6c86abc... |
Title | JR17005 Ships Underway Data |
Description | Ships underway measurements of sea surface ocean variables and meterology collected during May-June 2018 as part of ARISE, Changing Arctic Ocean cruise JR17005 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This data set is freely available for use by the CAO community and its partners. |
URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/a0817374-6342-51bf-e053-6c86abc... |
Description | AWI: access to berths on research cruise |
Organisation | Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | No contribution yet. Too early but will provide access to data sets. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided access to berths on research cruise to the Fram Strait |
Impact | No outcomes, too early. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Akva-Niva: Ferrybox |
Organisation | Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) |
Country | Norway |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Access to berth on commercial ship to sample to Barents Sea on a seasonal basis for stable isotopes of dissolved and particulate material |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to berth on commercial ship to sample to Barents Sea on a seasonal basis for stable isotopes of dissolved and particulate material |
Impact | Too early |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration with Norwegian Polar Institute |
Organisation | Norwegian Polar Institute |
Country | Norway |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | No contributions yet, too early |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to research cruises in the Arctic Ocean |
Impact | Too early. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | DFO Canada: access to samples and data sets |
Organisation | Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We will provide expertise in processing of samples using compound specific stable isotopes and processing of data sets using new model approaches. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided access to sample archives and data archives |
Impact | No impact yet, too early. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Florida State University: access to river samples |
Organisation | Florida State University |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Analysis of sample collected from Arctic rivers for stable nitrogen and oxygen isotopes of nitrate |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to samples collected from 6 rivers in the Arctic Ocean |
Impact | Too early |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | IMR Norway: assistance with seal tagging and access to sample and data archives |
Organisation | Norwegian Institute of Marine Research |
Country | Norway |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We will provide analysis of sample archives using compound specific techniques and new approaches to analyses archive data sets using statistical models. We will also provide funds for tags for seals. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided archives samples and archive data sets. Provided a means to tag seals in the Arctic Ocean during Norwegian led fieldwork. |
Impact | Too early . |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | LSCE: access to PISCES-iso model |
Organisation | Laboratory of Climate Sciences and the Environment (LSCE) |
Country | France |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | No contributions yet, too early. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided access to model PISCES-ISO |
Impact | No impact, too early. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) |
Organisation | Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) |
Country | Norway |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | ARISE technical and Doctoral students will be taking nutrient and biological data on board the ship of opportunity, Norbjørn, from Tromso in Norway to Longyearbyen, Svalbard. This arrangement was made as a direct result of ARISE grant proposal |
Collaborator Contribution | Researchers at NIVA will help organise access onto Norbjørn vessel and share abiotic data from the ferrybox system installed in this ship by NIVA. |
Impact | Knowledge exchange agreement and ship access |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Project partnership with the Norwegian Polar Institute - access to berths on research cruises |
Organisation | Norwegian Polar Institute |
Country | Norway |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | ARISE have allocated a berth to NPI on the NERC Changing Arctic Ocean cruise JR17005 (to the Fram Strait- Greenland shelf) to allow them to collect CDOM, d18O and DOC samples at an undersampled time of year. |
Collaborator Contribution | NPI have given the ARISE team access to a berth on the RV Lance to enable sample collection: (1) MOSJ 2017 (Kongsfjorden and Hausgarten) and (2) FS2017 (Fram Strait) |
Impact | More than 500 samples collected for the ARISE project |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Stanford University: remote sensing data sets |
Organisation | Stanford University |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | No contribution yet. Too early. |
Collaborator Contribution | Research group led by Kevin Arrigo at Stanford University has provided remote sensing data sets. |
Impact | Too early for outcomes |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Stockholm University: access to sample archives for sediments |
Organisation | Stockholm University |
Country | Sweden |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Analysis of sediment samples by PhD student using specialised organic geochemical techniques to detect terrestrially derived organic matter |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided access to sediment samples collected from the continental shelves of the Arctic Ocean |
Impact | Too early. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | UBC: access to GEOTRACES datasets |
Organisation | University of British Columbia |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | No contribution yet |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to GEOTRACES dataset on the stable nitrogen and oxygen isotope composition of nitrate in the Arctic Ocean |
Impact | Too early |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | University of Connecticut: access to GEOTRACES data sets |
Organisation | University of Connecticut |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | No contribution yet |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to GEOTRACES data sets on stable nitrogen and oxygen composition of nitrate in the Arctic Ocean |
Impact | Too early |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | ASLO Ocean Sciences conference 2018: Poster presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Poster presentation at international conference on the objectives of the project and some preliminary data on the isoscape. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Cruise report for the UK Challenger Marine Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Informal blog describing the aims of the cruise and the activities that took place onboard. Designed to be easily accessible and to promote Arctic research. The coordinator reported the blog to have had one of the highest hit rates (> 100 reads). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://challengercaptainsblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/a-summer-spent-in-the-changing-arctic-ocean/ |
Description | Development of project website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | New website created for the project, including project team, objectives, fieldwork etc. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://arcticarise.wordpress.com |
Description | Dr. Camille de la Vega attended Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromso, Norway |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr. Camille de la Vega presented a poster on findings in ARISE at the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromso, Norway in February 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | ICES WGMME |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Meeting of annual working group for ICES |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Working_Group_on_Marine_Mammal_Ecology_WGMME_/2044... |
Description | Interview and on-line video with BBC Radio Solent for the first Chnaging Arctic Ocean cruise, JR16006 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Jo Hopkins was interviewed and filmed by a BBC Radio Solent news reporter onboard the RRS James Clark Ross just before the ship sailed for the first Changing Arctic Ocean research cruise. She explained the goals of the ARISE project and the wider Arctic programme and explained how many of the measurements would be made during the cruise. The Interview was broadcoast on the 29th June 2017 on the Julian Clegg show and the video posted on the BBC Radio Solent Facebook page. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.facebook.com/BBCRadioSolent/videos/1381007702019321/ |
Description | Interview for BBC radio Wales Weekly Science Cafe programme |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | BBC Radio Wales Science Cafe broadcast. Science radio programme for general public. Interview with Prof. C. Mahaffey and Dr R. Jeffreys on ARISE project and Arctic food webs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | James Grecian Presentation at Liverpool |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | James Grecian presented material based on preliminary ARISE work to colleagues at Liverpool University in a seminar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | James Grecian talk at Birmingham NERC Arctic Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Meeting attended by recipients of NERC Arctic research funding, policymakers and NERC staff |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Mahaffey and Jeffreys interviews for Science Cafe on Radio Wales |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Rachel Jeffreys and Claire Mahaffey were interviewed alongside Yeung Lenn for Science Cafe on BBC Radio Wales about the ARISE project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | NERC Artic Meeting Birmingham 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | NERC meeting for Arctic researchers, Birmingham, 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Oral presentation at the Nansen Legacy kick off meeting in Tromso Norway |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Oral presentation at the kick off meeting for the Norwegian led project, the Nansen Legacy. Invited to attend. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Poster presentation of ARISE at Ocean Sciences 2018, Portland, Oregon |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Poster presentation to Internatioal attendees of Ocean Sciences 2018 in Portland, Oregon. Louisa Norman, Rachel Jeffreys, Claire Mahaffey, Alessandro Tagliabue, George A Wolff, Andy Heath, Joanne Hopkins, Raja Ganeshram, Sophie Smout, Andy Yool, Rowena Stern, Claudia Castellani, Camille De La Vega, Robyn E Tuerena and James Grecian (2018), Can we detect changes in Arctic ecosystems? (ARISE) , Abstract HE44A-2965 presented at 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR, 12-16 Feb. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://osm.agu.org/2018/ |
Description | Poster presented at Arctic Frontiers Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Poster presented by Dr C. De La Vega on ARISE project stable isotopes in food webs at Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromso. Participants include, politicians, business and industry, academics, government researchers. Conference is about sustainable management of the Arctic, linking policy, business and research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | UK Arctic conference: Oral presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Oral presentation at UK Arctic conference on the objectives of the project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |