Lofoten Research Blog

Ever wonder what a research cruise looks like?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

All Back!

We successfully finished our cruise on May 12. Today, May 27, ur two autonomous platforms, the SeaGlider and the Sailbuoy, were...

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...

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....

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...