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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.

Follow our expeditions

• MOSAiC expedition 2019-2020
• Arctic Marine Litter Expedition
• Svalbard expedition 2018

News about Arctic research

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  31 October 2022

  Combination microscopy and DNA analysis reveals new insights in the diet of polar cod

  - Polar cod is an important part of the food web of the Arctic. Sarah Maes (KU Leuven) and Fokje Schaafsma (Wageningen Marine Research) investigated the...
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  20 September 2022

  Plastic and debris in Arctic fox poo in Iceland

  - Recently, researchers associated with Wageningen Marine Research published an article in the scientific journal Polar Biology, where they discuss...
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  13 September 2022

  Using eyes in the sky to locate seals in a rapidly changing Arctic

  - The polar regions are some of the most inaccessible places of our planet. Figuring out where different seal species reside in this fast-changing...
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  05 April 2022

  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...
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  04 February 2022

  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...

News 2016-2020

• 01 December 2021

  AI helps speed up ecological surveys

• 06 October 2021

  Keynote prof. Edward Huijbens at the Nordic Symposium of Tourism and Hospitality Research

• 09 June 2021

  Wageningen University & Research and PAME launch a capsule to track the journey of marine litter from the Netherlands online

• 08 March 2021

  Plastic soup detectives: beach litter West Greenland is of local origin

• 19 October 2020

  After 389 days, the largest Arctic research expedition of all time comes to a successful end in Bremerhaven

• 16 October 2020

  New knowledge on the sea ice of the polar oceans

• 01 September 2020

  Photo impression MOSAiC expedition in the Arctic Ocean

• 02 July 2020

  Former Wageningen Marine Research employee and ice net SUIT travel to Alaska

• 05 March 2020

  Chlamydia-related bacteria discovered deep below the Arctic Ocean

• 31 January 2020

  The MOSAiC expedition continues leg 2: Hardships and challenges in the Arctic winter

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Projects in the Arctic

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  Arctic Marine Litter Project

  Take a moment to visualise the Arctic: icebergs, snow-capped mountains, polar bears, walruses...But the truth is quite the opposite. Many of the...
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  Social License to Operate in the Arctic

  The Arctic is rapidly changing. Snow and ice cover are decreasing and opening up the Arctic for (increased) economic activities such as fisheries,...
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  The role of sea ice in the polar ocean

  The PhD project Iceflux-NL aims at estimating the level at which polar ecosystems and their living resources are affected by changing sea ice habitats...
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  Forecast quality of Arctic climate predictions

  This project aims to provide reliable seasonal to decadal probabilistic predictions of the Arctic sea ice and assess the value of this information for...
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  Sustainable Ecosystem Management and Use by Marine Communities in two exemplary regions

  Marine ecosystems are under major and diverse threats, be it to a different extent and in different ways for distinct marine ecosystems. Managing...

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Publications

• Pan-Arctic marine biodiversity and species co-occurrence patterns under recent climate

  Alabia, Irene D. , García Molinos, Jorge , Hirata, Takafumi , Mueter, Franz J. , David, Carmen L. (2023) Scientific Reports 13 (2023)1. - ISSN 2045-2322

• Spaceborne Observations of Lightning NO2 in the Arctic

  Zhang, Xin , A, Ronald van der , Ding, Jieying , Eskes, Henk , Geffen, Jos van , Yin, Yan , Anema, Juliëtte , Vagasky, Chris , L. Lapierre, Jeff , Kuang, Xiang (2023) Environmental Science and Technology 57 (2023)6. - ISSN 0013-936X - p. 2322 - 2332.

• Wildfire adaptation in the Russian Arctic : A systematic policy review

  Canosa, I.V. , Biesbroek, R. , Ford, J. , McCarty, J.L. , Orttung, R.W. , Paavola, J. , Burnasheva, D. (2023) Climate Risk Management 39 (2023). - ISSN 2212-0963 - 12 p.

• Low ozone dry deposition rates to sea ice during the MOSAiC field campaign: Implications for the Arctic boundary layer ozone budget

  Barten, Johannes G.M. , Ganzeveld, Laurens N. , Steeneveld, Gert-Jan , Blomquist, Byron W. , Angot, Hélène , Archer, Stephen D. , Bariteau, Ludovic , Beck, Ivo , Boyer, Matthew , Gathen, Peter Von der , Helmig, Detlev , Howard, Dean , Hueber, Jacques , Jacobi, Hans-Werner , Jokinen, Tuija , Laurila, Tiia , Posman, Kevin M. , Quéléver, Lauriane , Schmale, Julia , Shupe, Matthew D. , Krol, Maarten C. (2023) Elementa: Science of Anthropocene 11 (2023)1. - ISSN 2325-1026

• Barnacle geese Branta leucopsis breeding on Novaya Zemlya : current distribution and population size estimated from tracking data

  Lameris, Thomas K. , Pokrovskaya, Olga B. , Kondratyev, Alexander V. , Anisimov, Yuriy A. , Buitendijk, Nelleke H. , Glazov, Petr M. , Jeugd, Henk P. van der , Kampichler, Christian , Kruckenberg, Helmut , Litvin, Konstantin E. , Loshchagina, Julia A. , Moonen, Sander , Müskens, Gerard J.D. , Nolet, Bart A. , Schreven, Kees H.T. , Sierdsema, Henk , Zaynagutdinova, Elmira M. , Boom, Michiel P. (2023) Polar Biology 46 (2023)1. - ISSN 0722-4060 - p. 67 - 76.

• Single-Column atmospheric chemistry and meteorological Model simulations for MOSAiC

  Barten, J.G.M. , Ganzeveld, L.N. (2022) : Zenodo

• Seal Abundance and Distribution

  Banga, R. , Russell, D.J.F. , Carter, M.I.D. , Chaudry, F. , Gilles, A. , Abel, C. , Ahola, M. , Authier, M. , Bjorge, A. , Brasseur, S.M.J.M. , Carlsson, A. , Calstrom, J. , Christensen, A. , Dinis, A. , Engene, N. , Galatius, A. , Geelhoed, S.C.V. , Granquist, S. , Haelters, J. , Jess, A. , Morris, C. , Murphy, S. , O’cadhla, O. , Persson, S. , Pierce, G. , Poncet, S. , Rosing-Asvid, Aqqalu , Saavedra, C. , Taylor, N. , Teixeira, A. , Neer, A. van , Vasconcelos, R.P. , Vincent, C. (2022) London : OSPAR Commission (The 2023 Quality Status Report for the Northeast Atlantic )

• Satellite Images Show Unprecedented Arctic Fires

  Sheil, Douglas (2022) Satellite Images Show Unprecedented Arctic Fires, Eurasia Review, 2022-11-07

• Mapping the relative abundance of soil microbiome biodiversity from eDNA and remote sensing

  Skidmore, Andrew K. , Siegenthaler, Andjin , Wang, Tiejun , Darvishzadeh, Roshanak , Zhu, Xi , Chariton, Anthony , Groot, Arjen de (2022) Science of Remote Sensing 6 (2022). - ISSN 2666-0172

• Mobilization of subsurface carbon pools driven by permafrost thaw and reactivation of groundwater flow : a virtual experiment

  Mohammed, Aaron A. , Guimond, Julia A. , Bense, Victor F. , Jamieson, Rob C. , McKenzie, Jeffrey M. , Kurylyk, Barret L. (2022) Environmental Research Letters 17 (2022)12. - ISSN 1748-9318

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