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CANOE project, south-west Greenland (2022 - 2026). Together with the Protistology and Aquatic Ecology Research Group of UGent, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), the Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR), the Marine Biology Research Group of Ghent University investigates biogeochemistry and food webs in fjords of south-west Greenland. We organized a 3 week field campaign with the new RV Belgica to Igaliku and Tunulliarfik fjord in July 2023.
Research project funded by Belspo. |
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IMAGIN project, West-Greenland (2021-2025). A consortium of the Marine Biology and Protistology and Aquatic Ecology Research Groups of UGent, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) jointly investigates the carbon cycle in West-Greenland’s fjords. We will test the hypothesis that the climate change-induced shift from marine-terminating glaciers to land-terminating glaciers ultimately results in a reduction in the carbon sink function of Greenland’s fjords. Project funded by FWO.
In Summer 2021 and Spring 2022, the UGent-NIOZ team investigated the pelagic and benthic environment of Gothabsfjord and Ameralik fjord. |
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North East Greenland 79°N benthos (2017 - 2021). During an expedition with RV Polarstern in September - October 2017, we studied the spatial patterns in benthic communities and biogeochemistry in the trough system close to the Nioghalvfjerdsbrae glacier (also termed shortly as 79°N glacier) in NE Greenland.
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Fram Strait 79°N (2014 - 2018). During two RV Polarstern expeditions in the summers of 2014 and 2015, we investigated the effect of sea ice cover on benthic communities and oxygen dynamics in the seafloor.
With the inflow of warmer Atlantic waters, temperate phytoplankton species occur more frequently in Fram Strait (deep water gateway to the Arctic Ocean). We studied how benthic communities degrade both the local phytoplankton communities and the temperate ones.
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