The Green Edge cruise: investigating the marginal ice zone processes during late spring and early summer to understand the fate of the Arctic phytoplankton bloom

• Published in: Earth System Science Data
• Main Authors: Bruyant, Flavienne, Amiraux, Rémi, Amyot, Marie-Pier, Archambault, Philippe, Artigue, Lise, Barbedo de Freitas, Lucas, Bécu, Guislain, Bélanger, Simon, Bourgain, Pascaline, Bricaud, Annick, Brouard, Etienne, Brunet, Camille, Burgers, Tonya, Caleb, Danielle, Chalut, Katrine, Claustre, Hervé, Cornet-Barthaux, Véronique, Coupel, Pierre, Cusa, Marine, Cusset, Fanny, Dadaglio, Laeticia, Davelaar, Marty, Deslongchamps, Gabrièle, Dimier, Céline, Dinasquet, Julie, Dumont, Dany, Else, Brent, Eulaers, Igor, Ferland, Joannie, Filteau, Gabrielle, Forget, Marie-Hélène, Fort, Jérome, Fortier, Louis, Galí, Martí, Gallinari, Morgane, Garbus, Svend-Erik, Garcia, Nicole, Gérikas Ribeiro, Catherine, Gombault, Colline, Gourvil, Priscilla, Goyens, Clémence, Grant, Cindy, Grondin, Pierre-Luc, Guillot, Pascal, Hillion, Sandrine, Hussherr, Rachel, Joux, Fabien, Joy-Warren, Hannah, Joyal, Gabriel, Kieber, David
• Other Authors: Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie (MIO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR) (LEMAR), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Baffin; Phytoplankton
• Online Access: https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03987075; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4607-2022

Abstract. The Green Edge project was designed to investigate the onset, life, and fate of a phytoplankton spring bloom (PSB) in the Arctic Ocean. The lengthening of the ice-free period and the warming of seawater, amongst other factors, have induced major changes in Arctic Ocean biology over the last decades. Because the PSB is at the base of the Arctic Ocean food chain, it is crucial to understand how changes in the Arctic environment will affect it. Green Edge was a large multidisciplinary, collaborative project bringing researchers and technicians from 28 different institutions in seven countries together, aiming at understanding these changes and their impacts on the future. The fieldwork for the Green Edge project took place over two years (2015 and 2016) and was carried out from both an ice camp and a research vessel in Baffin Bay, in the Canadian Arctic. This paper describes the sampling strategy and the dataset obtained from the research cruise, which took place aboard the Canadian Coast Guard ship (CCGS) Amundsen in late spring and early summer 2016. The sampling strategy was designed around the repetitive, perpendicular crossing of the marginal ice zone (MIZ), using not only ship-based station discrete sampling but also high-resolution measurements from autonomous platforms (Gliders, BGC-Argo floats …) and under-way monitoring systems. The dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.17882/86417 (Bruyant et al., 2022).