The Malina Oceanographic Expedition: How Do Changes in Ice Cover, Permafrost and Uv Radiation Impact on Biodiversity and Biogeochemical Fluxes in the Arctic Ocean?

The MALINA oceanographic campaign was conducted during summer 2009 to investigate the carbon stocks and the processes controlling the carbon fluxes in the Mackenzie River estuary and the Beaufort Sea. During the campaign, an extensive suite of physical, chemical and biological variables was measured...

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Main Authors: Massicotte, Phillippe, Amon, Rainer, Antoine, David, Archambault, Philippe, Balzano, Sergio, Bélanger, Simon, Benner, Ronald, Boeuf, Dominique, Bricaud, Annick, Bruyant, Flavienne, Chaillou, Gwenaëlle, Malik, Malik, Charrière, Bruno, Chen, Jing, Claustre, Hervé, Coupel, Pierre, Delsaut, Nicole, Doxaran, David
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Scholar Commons 2009
Subjects:
Ice
Online Access:https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/geol_facpub/177
https://doi.org/10.17882/75345;
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/context/geol_facpub/article/1177/type/native/viewcontent/81515__1_.zip
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Summary:The MALINA oceanographic campaign was conducted during summer 2009 to investigate the carbon stocks and the processes controlling the carbon fluxes in the Mackenzie River estuary and the Beaufort Sea. During the campaign, an extensive suite of physical, chemical and biological variables was measured across seven shelf–basin transects (south-north) to capture the meridional gradient between the estuary and the open ocean. Key variables such as temperature, absolute salinity, radiance, irradiance, nutrient concentrations, chlorophyll-a concentration, bacteria, phytoplankton and zooplankton abundance and taxonomy, and carbon stocks and fluxes were routinely measured onboard the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen and from a barge in shallow coastal areas or for sampling within broken ice fields. This dataset is the results of a joint effort to tidy and standardize the collected data sets that will facilitate their reuse in further studies of the changing Arctic Ocean.