Lofoten Research Blog

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...

Overwintering

Check out the second scientific research article of the Sea Patches project. While spring has arrived many places in the northern...

Copepods from Space!

In our first scientific publication we show that the pigments of the small (approximately 3 millimetre long) crustacean Calanus...

Sea Patches on the TV

Sea Patches research was on TV! Watch it here (in Norwegian) and see an interesting satellite images of a very large zooplankton patch,...

Research Days 2018

A week of public outreach Research Days takes place across Norway every Autumn. The community is invited to universities, institutes, and...

This year's sampling is completed!

During this year's research cruise from 16-27 June we performed sampling along 6 transects and at 18 stations, using a variety of...

Recent Updates

March 2018: Sea Patches scientists participated at the ARCTOS research network meeting at Sommarøy, Troms, Norway...

Back from our first project cruise

We just came back from a very successful cruise to the area outside Lofoten-Vesterålen islands, where we were looking for (and finding!)...

See what can happen to plankton swarms

Researches from Oregon State University have been able to film blue whales gulping swarms of krill. But which swarm is worth feeding on...