11 Dec 2017 – The Nansen Legacy

Relevant news from the Arctic: Nations put science before fishing in the Arctic

By: 11 Dec 201713 Dec 2017

The central Arctic is off-limits to commercial activites for the next 16 years, giving scientist the lead for better understanding an Arctic of environments in change.

Background: Driftwood and ocean currents

By: 11 Dec 201724 Apr 2018

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The Arctic Ocean has been covered by sea ice for several hundred thousand years. However, even the oldest ice floes are less that 10 years old because it continually drifts…

Three Legacy members announced lead authors for the sixth IPCC Assessment Report

By: mvelle68 11 Dec 20174 Jul 2018

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Three of the 19 Norwegian scientists elected as authors to the sixth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are members of the Nansen Legacy. The 6th scientific IPCC report, will be published in 2021 and 2022 and is the most comprehensive and important basis for international climate policy.

Recent publications

Rebault J, Müller M, Voermans J, Brazhnikov D, Marchenko A, Biuw M, Nose, T, Waseda T, Johansson M, Breivik Ø, et al. (2023) A dataset of direct observations of sea ice drift and waves in ice. Scientific Data 10, 251.

Fransner F, Olsen A, Årthun M, Counillon F, Tjiputra J, Samuelsen A, Keenlyside N (2023) Phytoplankton abundance in the Barents Sea is predictable up to five years in advance. Nature Communications Earth & Environment 4, 141.

Langbehn TJ, Aarflot JM, Freer JJ, Varpe Ø (2023) Visual predation risk and spatial distributions of large Arctic copepods along gradients of sea ice and bottom depth. Limnology and Oceanography.