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Check out the video from this year’s cruise! was ocean-bound June 7 - 14 as part of the SFI Harvest project. Watch how scientists collect...
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Copepods under lockdown – a swarm of copepods blocked in by a Transport Barrier in Northern Norway
The Stressors team set out to investigate the location and migration of copepods in the waters off Lofoten-Veterålen in northern Norway...
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How fast are copepods? – part 3
All the experiments are finished and we have now started to analyze the data, i.e. we finally measured the copepods velocities! Using...
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How fast are copepods? – part 2
Coastline close to Ramfjorden Finally we collected some copepods in the fjords around Tromso. We took the small boat from UiT, R/V...
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How fast are copepods?
Copepods are only a few mm by size and thus can’t move against oceanic currents that often are in the order of several centimetres per...
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Day 13 - PhD student Huizi Dong from Shanghai Jiaotong University
Hi, everyone! This is Huizi Dong, a PhD student from Shanghai Jiaotong University. I am very happy to be one of 25 members in this...
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Day 10 - Biological Oceanographer Nicholas Weidberg
We cross the shelf break towards the open Arctic Ocean. Weather is not good now, with 2-3m swell and persistent winds from the Northeast....
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Day 9 - Physical Oceanographer Zhaoru Zhang
Hi, This is Zhaoru Zhang, a physical oceanographer working on coastal dynamics and polar oceanography. This is my first open ocean...
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Day 7 - eDNA
Hi, I am Paulina, on the cruise I am responsible for sampling eDNA to compare the biodiversity found inside and outside of eddies. eDNA...
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Day 6 - Guest post by Mathilde Servan, Master student in Marine Ecology at Nord University
Escaping the waves The weather was unfortunately not on our side today. The initial plan was to sample offshore of Lofoten, but too high...
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Day 5 - Yiwu Zhu from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Hello! This is Yiwu Zhu, a scientist from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Happy to participate in the Stressor project and at the cruise!...
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Day 4 - Guest post by Rui Meng from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
My name is Rui Meng, and I am a graduate student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. I was born near Beijing area and got my...
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Day 3 - VISTA Fellowship
Hi everyone! My name is Sofia Aniceto and I have a VISTA fellowship for a postdoc at the Arctic University of Norway. We are now close to...
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Artist-on-Board takes over the Blog
Wednesday 24 / 4 / 2019 Helsinki, sunny, clear sky, +18 (!), wind speed 4m / s, visibility 23 km, length of day is 15h 22min. My Helmer...
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Day 1 - Guest post by a visiting student
Hi everyone, Guillaume here (right, that’s my name), the 21 year-old french intern of Dr Basedow. I’m honoured to set things off with...
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Overwintering
Check out the second scientific research article of the Sea Patches project. While spring has arrived many places in the northern...
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Stressor officially launched!
Twenty-five scientists gathered in Tromsø 27-28 March 2019 for the official Kick-Off Meeting of the Stressor project.
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Copepods from Space!
In our first scientific publication we show that the pigments of the small (approximately 3 millimetre long) crustacean Calanus...