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1. Carbon Export in the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone North of Svalbard From Winter to Late Summer

Author

Christine Dybwad, Lasse Mork Olsen, Agnieszka Tatarek, Thomas Krumpen, Marit Reigstad, Philipp Assmy, Ilka Peeken, Anna Nikolopoulos, Achim Randelhoff, and Józef Wiktor

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0106 biological sciences, Krill, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, lcsh:QH1-199.5, Ocean Engineering, Aquatic Science, lcsh:General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution, Oceanography, 01 natural sciences, Algal bloom, Phytoplankton, Sea ice, 14. Life underwater, vertical carbon export, lcsh:Science, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Water Science and Technology, VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400, Total organic carbon, Global and Planetary Change, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, biology, seasonality, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, under-ice bloom, VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400, 15. Life on land, biology.organism_classification, Arctic ice pack, sea ice, 13. Climate action, Sediment trap, phytoplankton, Environmental science, lcsh:Q, Arctic ocean, Surface water
Abstract

Phytoplankton blooms in the Arctic Ocean's seasonal sea ice zone are expected to start earlier and occur further north with retreating and thinning sea ice cover. The current study is the first compilation of phytoplankton bloom development and fate in the seasonally variable sea ice zone north of Svalbard from winter to late summer, using short-term sediment trap deployments. Clear seasonal patterns were discovered, with low winter and pre-bloom phytoplankton standing stocks and export fluxes, a short and intense productive season in May and June, and low Chl a standing stocks but moderate carbon export fluxes in the autumn post-bloom conditions. We observed intense phytoplankton blooms with Chl a standing stocks of >350 mg m−2 below consolidated sea ice cover, dominated by the prymnesiophyte Phaeocystis pouchetii. The largest vertical organic carbon export fluxes to 100 m, of up to 513 mg C m−2 day−1, were recorded at stations dominated by diatoms, while those dominated by P. pouchetii recorded carbon export fluxes up to 310 mg C m−2 day−1. Fecal pellets from krill and copepods contributed a substantial fraction to carbon export in certain areas, especially where blooms of P. pouchetii dominated and Atlantic water advection was prominent. The interplay between the taxonomic composition of protist assemblages, large grazers, distance to open water, and Atlantic water advection was found to be crucial in determining the fate of the blooms and the magnitude of organic carbon exported out of the surface water column. Previously, the marginal ice zone was considered the most productive region in the area, but our study reveals intense blooms and high export events in ice-covered waters. This is the first comprehensive study on carbon export fluxes for under-ice phytoplankton blooms, a phenomenon suggested to have increased in importance under the new Arctic sea ice regime.

Published
2021

2. Environmental factors influencing the seasonal dynamics of spring algal blooms in and beneath sea ice in western Baffin Bay

Author

Dany Dumont, Patrick Raimbault, Jens K. Ehn, C. J. Mundy, Guislain Bécu, Marcel Babin, P. Coupel, Claudie Marec, Nicole Garcia, Joannie Ferland, Yannis Cuypers, Laurent Oziel, Virginie Galindo, Marie-Hélène Forget, Léo Lacour, Philippe Massicotte, Marie-Noëlle Houssais, Achim Randelhoff, Pascale Bouruet-Aubertot, Simon Lambert-Girard, Anda Vladoiu, Takuvik Joint International Laboratory ULAVAL-CNRS, Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Processus et interactions de fine échelle océanique (PROTEO), Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Variabilité de l'Océan et de la Glace de mer (VOG), CNES (project #131425), IPEV (project #1164), CSA, Fondation Total, ArcticNet, LEFE and the French Arctic Initiative (Green Edge project), ANR-14-CE01-0017,Green Edge,Productivité biologique dans l'Océan Arctique: réponse passée, présente et future aux fluctuations climatiques, et impacts sur les flux de carbone, le réseau trophique et les communautés humaines locales(2014), Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-École normale supérieure - 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Brest (IFREMER Centre de Bretagne)

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Light and mixing, Under-ice bloom, Phytoplankton and sea ice algae, Arctic Ocean, Baffin Bay, Environmental conditions, Oceanography, 01 natural sciences, Algal bloom, Water column, Phytoplankton, Sea ice, 14. Life underwater, lcsh:Environmental sciences, [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, lcsh:GE1-350, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Ecology, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, Geology, Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology, Snow, Arctic ice pack, Arctic, 13. Climate action, Environmental science, Bloom
Abstract

Arctic sea ice is experiencing a shorter growth season and an earlier ice melt onset. The significance of spring microalgal blooms taking place prior to sea ice breakup is the subject of ongoing scientific debate. During the Green Edge project, unique time-series data were collected during two field campaigns held in spring 2015 and 2016, which documented for the first time the concomitant temporal evolution of the sea ice algal and phytoplankton blooms in and beneath the landfast sea ice in western Baffin Bay. Sea ice algal and phytoplankton blooms were negatively correlated and respectively reached 26 (6) and 152 (182) mg of chlorophyll a per m2 in 2015 (2016). Here, we describe and compare the seasonal evolutions of a wide variety of physical forcings, particularly key components of the atmosphere–snow–ice–ocean system, that influenced microalgal growth during both years. Ice algal growth was observed under low-light conditions before the snow melt period and was much higher in 2015 due to less snowfall. By increasing light availability and water column stratification, the snow melt onset marked the initiation of the phytoplankton bloom and, concomitantly, the termination of the ice algal bloom. This study therefore underlines the major role of snow on the seasonal dynamics of microalgae in western Baffin Bay. The under-ice water column was dominated by Arctic Waters. Just before the sea ice broke up, phytoplankton had consumed most of the nutrients in the surface layer. A subsurface chlorophyll maximum appeared and deepened, favored by spring tide-induced mixing, reaching the best compromise between light and nutrient availability. This deepening evidenced the importance of upper ocean tidal dynamics for shaping vertical development of the under-ice phytoplankton bloom, a major biological event along the western coast of Baffin Bay, which reached similar magnitude to the offshore ice-edge bloom.

Published
2019
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3. The advective origin of an under-ice spring bloom in the Arctic Ocean using multiple observational platforms

Author

Marit Norli, Cecilie von Quillfeldt, Geir Johnsen, Ian Robbins, Jørgen Berge, Mark A. Moline, Finlo Cottier, and Kai Sørensen

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Water mass, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Photoacclimation, Advection of cells, Chlorophyll a, Biology, 01 natural sciences, Water column, Arctic, Phytoplankton, Sea ice, Autonomous underwater vehicle, VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Marine biology: 497, Pulse amplitude modulated fluorescence (PAM), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, geography, Original Paper, geography.geographical_feature_category, Sea-ice algae, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, Chaetoceros, VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Marinbiologi: 497, Spring bloom, biology.organism_classification, Oceanography, Satellite, Under-ice bloom, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Bloom
Abstract

Source at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2278-5. Under-ice blooms of phytoplankton in the Chukchi Sea have been observed, with strong implications for our understanding of the production regimes in the Arctic Ocean. Using a combination of satellite remote sensing of phytoplankton biomass, in situ observations under sea ice from an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), and in vivo photophysiology, we examined the composition, magnitude and origin of a bloom detected beneath the sea ice Northwest of Svalbard (Southern Yermak Plateau) in May 2010. In situ concentration of up to 20 mg chlorophyll a [Chl a] m−3, were dominated by the northern planktonic spring species of diatoms, Thalassiosira nordenskioeldii, T. antarctica var. borealis, Chaetoceros socialis species complex and Fragilariopsis oceanica. These species were also found south of the marginal ice zone (MIZ). Cells in the water column under the sea ice were typically high-light acclimated, with a mean light saturation index (Ek) of 138 μmol photons m−2 s−1 and a ratio between photoprotective carotenoids (PPC) and Chl a (w:w) of 0.2. Remotely sensed data of [Chl a] showed a 32,000 km2 bloom developing south of the MIZ. In effect, our data suggest that the observed under-ice bloom was in fact a bloom developed in open waters south of the ice edge, and that a combination of northward-flowing water masses and southward drifting sea ice effectively positioned the bloom under the sea ice. This have implications for our general understanding of under-ice blooms, suggesting that their origin and connection with open water may be different in different regions of the Arctic.

Published
2018

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