Dossier
North Pole (Arctic)
With the receding sea-ice in the Arctic, an increase in human activities such as shipping, oil and gas exploration, fisheries and tourism is expected in this region. Wageningen University & Research conducts impact assessments of these activities. This is needed to identify relevant mitigation measures to minimise impacts of these activities and to give advice to governments, industry and NGOs on sustainable developments in the Arctic.
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News about Arctic research
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Arctic seals photographed from space
- Around this time of year, the Arctic would normally be slowly awaking from its deep winter slumber. This year however, the annual ice melt started... -
To measure is to know: how long is a krill and how heavy is polar cod?
- A lot is measured and weighed in biological research. Researchers from Wageningen Marine Research and partners published measurements of more than... -
AI helps speed up ecological surveys
- Scientists at NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) and Wageningen University... -
Keynote prof. Edward Huijbens at the Nordic Symposium of Tourism and Hospitality Research
- The paper 'Future Perfect? Earthly tourism attachments' from Edward Huijbens will query future tourism from the perspective of developing earthly... -
Wageningen University & Research and PAME launch a capsule to track the journey of marine litter from the Netherlands online
- Last week, a special capsule was launched at sea, some 25 miles West of the island of Texel in the Netherlands. The live position of this 'Plastic in...
News 2016-2020
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After 389 days, the largest Arctic research expedition of all time comes to a successful end in Bremerhaven
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New knowledge on the sea ice of the polar oceans
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Photo impression MOSAiC expedition in the Arctic Ocean
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Former Wageningen Marine Research employee and ice net SUIT travel to Alaska
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Chlamydia-related bacteria discovered deep below the Arctic Ocean
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The MOSAiC expedition continues leg 2: Hardships and challenges in the Arctic winter
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One year in the ice
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A diet with ice: how does the food web underneath the ice of the polar oceans work?
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At least 100 Bowhead whales sighted in the East Greenland Sea
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Ingestion of plastic by Polar Cod
Projects in the Arctic
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Enhancing the Saliency of climate services for marine mobility Sectors in European Arctic Seas (SALIENSEAS)
The warming Arctic ocean has profound socio-economic consequences for local communities and various marine sectors. To make appropriate operational... -
The acute effects of oil in Arctic marine systems
Despite developments in ‘clean energy’ sources, the global demand for oil continues to increase. Excessive oil winning has depleted oil... -
Assessing ecological impacts at the population level for oil spill response in the Arctic
When ecological impacts of an oil spill are assessed, worst case (conservative) assumptions are commonly made. For example, it is often assumed that... -
The adequacy of Arctic marine data
This project is part of the EMODnet Sea Basin Checkpoints, in which the quality of the current observation monitoring data at the level of the... -
Developing benefit-sharing standards in the Arctic: Toward coexistence of oil and gas companies and traditional indigenous communities
Arctic indigenous communities do not necessarily benefit from oil and gas extraction as it threatens their traditional livelihoods of hunting, fishing...
Publications
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Coproducing Sea Ice Predictions with Stakeholders Using Simulation
Weather, climate and society 14 (2022)2. - ISSN 1948-8327 - p. 399 - 413. -
Climate opportunism and values of change on the Arctic agricultural frontier
Economic Anthropology 9 (2022)2. - ISSN 2330-4847 - p. 207 - 222. -
Sea-level rise and warming mediate coastal groundwater discharge in the Arctic
Environmental Research Letters 17 (2022)4. - ISSN 1748-9318 -
Catch sampling of the pelagic freezer trawler fishery operating in European waters in 2019-2020 : joint report of the Dutch and German national on-board sampling programmes
IJmuiden : Stichting Wageningen Research, Centre for Fisheries Research (CVO) (CVO report 22.008) - p. -
Extremely wet summer events enhance permafrost thaw for multiple years in Siberian tundra
Nature Communications 13 (2022)1. - ISSN 2041-1723 -
Deep demersal fish communities respond rapidly to warming in a frontal region between Arctic and Atlantic waters
Global Change Biology 28 (2022)9. - ISSN 1354-1013 - p. 2979 - 2990. -
Overview of the MOSAiC expedition- Atmosphere
Elementa: Science of Anthropocene 10 (2022)1. - ISSN 2325-1026 -
Growth rings show limited evidence for ungulates' potential to suppress shrubs across the Arctic
Environmental Research Letters 17 (2022)3. - ISSN 1748-9326 -
Unexpected fish and squid in the central Arctic deep scattering layer
Science Advances 8 (2022)7. - ISSN 2375-2548 -
Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost
Nature Reviews Earth and Environment 3 (2022)1. - ISSN 2662-138X - p. 68 - 84.
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