This August, POMP researchers Karl Attard, Leah Brinch-Iversen, Maria Papadimitraki, Thomas Gjerluff Ager, Mikael Sejr, together with SeaQuester colleagues Mie Winding, Carl Isaksen, and Lorenz Meire, went on a field campaign in Northeast Greenland’s Young Sound fjord to study the impact of climate factors on polar ecosystems.
This campaign focused on investigating how climatic factors influence light and nutrient availability in the polar regions, information which will allow researchers to determine future productivity and CO2 uptake of these remote ecosystems.
The teams also collected data for the annual survey of the fjord’s physical, chemical, and biological conditions, which has been ongoing since 2003 as part of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) programme. GEM is a long-term monitoring research programme on ecosystems and climate change effects in the Arctic.
These research efforts will improve our understanding of the interactions between climate change and polar ecosystems, which will support the implementation of mitigation strategies and conservation policies in polar regions.
