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Project Information
Collaborative research aboard Icebreaker Oden: ASPIRE (Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition)
Start Date:
2009-08-15
End Date:
2013-09-30
Description/Abstract
This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).

The Amundsen Sea Polynya is areally the most productive Antarctic polynya, exhibits higher chlorophyll levels during peak bloom and greater interannual variability than the better-studied Ross Sea Polynya ecosystem. Polynyas may be the key to understanding the future of polar regions as their extent is expected to increase with anthropogenic warming. The project will examine 1) sources of iron to the Amundsen Sea Polynya as a function of climate forcing, 2) phytoplankton community structure in relation to iron supply and mixed-layer depths, 3) the efficiency of the biological pump of carbon to depth and 4) the net flux of carbon as a function of climate and micronutrient forcing. The research also will compare results for the Amundsen Sea to existing data synthesis and modeling efforts for the Palmer LTER and Ross Sea. The project will 1) build close scientific collaborations between US and Swedish researchers; 2) investigate climate change implications with broad societal relevance; 3) train new researchers; 4) encourage participation in research science by underrepresented groups, and 5) involve broad dissemination of results via scientific literature and public outreach, including close interactions with NSF-supported PolarTrec and COSEE K-12 teachers.
Personnel
Person Role
Yager, Patricia Investigator
Funding
Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems Award # 0839069
Deployment
Deployment Type
NBP1005 ship expedition
Data Management Plan
None in the Database
Product Level:
Not provided
Datasets
Repository Title (link) Format(s) Status
R2R Expedition data of NBP1005 None exists
Publications
  1. Swalethorp, R., Dinasquet, J., Logares, R., Bertilsson, S., Kjellerup, S., Krabberød, A. K., … Riemann, L. (2019). Microzooplankton distribution in the Amundsen Sea Polynya (Antarctica) during an extensive Phaeocystis antarctica bloom. Progress in Oceanography, 170, 1–10. (doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2018.10.008)
  2. Yager, P., & Sherrell, R. (2019). ASPIRE station data used to develop 1-D and 3-D numerical models from the Nathaniel B. Palmer in the Amundsen Sea from 2010-12-14 through 2011-01-05. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office. (doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.765081.1)
Platforms and Instruments

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