Happy World Ocean Day!

In six years, over 280 researchers walked in Nansen’s footsteps, and research everything from the bottom of the sea to observe the earth from satellites in space. This has given us over 200 scientific publications with knowledge on the rapidly changing marine climate and ecosystem. Today we present a few of these stories from bottom to space, so maybe you can understand the Arctic better.

The word Actic comes from the greek word "Arktos" (Bear) as seen in the bear constellation. These help you finding the North Star (Polaris), used to navigate towards the north

We have gathered some links for you to read under each picture.

Happy reading! 

Space Frida

We can observe remote places safe and secure from space. This gives us some answers, but not all: 

How to model and observation goes hand in hand to give us a better picture of reality.

We can understand and assess the status of the sea through colors seen from space

Atmosfære Frida

The weather in Arctic is changing. How will the safety at sea be?

Storm tracks are corridors, where the storm systems like to travel. They are mainly over the oceans – there is one in the North Atlantic, one in the North Pacific – as well as in the southern hemisphere

Sea ice surface

The thick sea ice is kindergarten, playground, hunting ground and feeding ground. When this sea ice disappears, so will the species living there too. But some fishes find their way north. Is that good news?  

Food web and small creatures in the sea ice 

Pancakes in the waves – a field report from the wintry Barents sea

How can we improve weather forecast by measuring waves? 

What is sea ice? Ice ridges, sea ice structure, and Old sea ice – an almost extinct habitat

Ice factories cutting production because of warmer water 

Measure cracks in the sea ice, can stone theory helps us to be more precise? 

Aliens living inside the sea ice?  

Illustrasjon Frida

The sea has a lot to offer us but it is also very sensitive to changes: 

Harp seals has poorer body condition then they had 30 years ago

Mercury levels in the sea

Marine heatwaves and their ecological implications

Successive extreme climatic events lead to immediate, large-scale, and diverse responses from fish in   the Arctic

Norwegian: Trålet under isen i Polhavet for første gang: – Foruroligende

Super genes can save polar cod

Bottom Frida

And finally from the bottom, stories from spiders to food places provided by methane:

Lets talk dirty – a story about mud 

Technology on ground, a story about fail and wins

Species outside the ordinary – Spider in the sea???

Hope you enjoy some of our stories from the project.

The more we learn, the more we understand.

Happy World Ocean day!