26. mars 2025 blogg

The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Polar Marine Science took place in Tuscany, Italy, March 9. - 14.. The conference topic was Sea Ice as a Nexus in Polar Seas Between the Ocean and the Atmosphere. Prof Marcel Babin was chairing the conference with Lisa Miller as vice chair.

Akvaplan-niva was represented by Eva Leu who presented a poster about the role of Melosira arctica in the future Arctic carbon cycle – a contribution supported by both the FRAM centre project SUDARCO and the EU Horizon project POMP: Polar Ocean mitigation potential.

Nine researchers and students associated with the POMP project were present at the conference. But also the ARCTOS network was contributing strongly to the meeting with an invited oral presentation by Karley Campbell, and in total ten posters from various projects. Bodil Bluhm from UiT The Arctic University of Norway was leading the session on Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics in the Presence of Sea Ice.

ARCTOS members at the GRC 2025: Paul Wassmann, Marja Gächter, Marit Reigstad, Sebastien Moreau, Zoe König, Rosalie McKay, Eva Leu, Karley Campbell and Bodil Bluhm. Missing on the picture: Marlena Szeligowska, Elizabeth Jones, Megan Lenss and Mats Granskog (Photo: Kristina Brown).