Reconstruction of recent and palaeo sea ice conditions in the Barents Sea

• Main Author: Navarro-Rodríguez, Alba
• Other Authors: Belt, Simon, Faculty of Science and Environment
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Plymouth University 2014
• Subjects: IP25; biomarker; sea ice; reconstructions; North Atlantic; sediments; GC-MS; Arctic; Barents Sea; Rijpfjorden; Svalbard; Phytoplankton; Rijpfjord*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3085

IP25 is a highly branched isoprenoid alkene derived from certain Arctic sea ice diatoms that, when detected in marine sediments, has been used as a proxy for past Arctic sea ice over the last decade. In the current study, the structure of this biomarker was determined following large-scale extractio...