The Green Edge cruise: Understanding the onset, life and fate of the Arctic phytoplankton spring bloom

• Main Authors: Bruyant, Flavienne, Amiraux, Rémi, Amyot, Marie-Pier, Archambault, Philippe, Artigue, Lise, Bardedo de Freitas, Lucas, Bécu, Guislain, Bélanger, Simon, Bourgain, Pascaline, Bricaud, Annick, Brouard, Etienne, Brunet, Camille, Burgers, Tonya, Caleb, Danielle, Chalut, Katrine, Clautre, Hervé, Cornet-Barthaux, Véronique, Coupel, Pierre, Cusa, Marine, Cusset, Fanny, Dadaglio, Laeticia, Davelaar, Marty, Deslongchamps, Gabriele, Dimier, Céline, Dinasquet, Julie, Dumont, Dany, Else, Brent, Eulaers, Igor, Ferland, Joannie, Filteau, Gabrielle, Forget, Marie-Hélène, Fort, Jérôme, Fortier, Louis, Galí-Tapías, 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, Hussher, Rachel, Joux, Fabien, Joy-Warren, Hannah, Joyal, Gabriel, Kieber, David
• Other Authors: Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne (LOMIC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls (OOB), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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)
• 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.science/hal-03782664; https://hal.science/hal-03782664/document; https://hal.science/hal-03782664/file/Bruyant%20et%20al%202022%20ESSD%20HAL.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-41

International audience 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 into 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 the Baffin Bay, canadian arctic. This paper describes the sampling strategy and the data set obtained from the research cruise, which took place aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) Amundsen in spring 2016. The dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.17882/59892 (Massicotte et al., 2019a).