Arctic Century 2021 – an interdisciplinary expedition to the Kara and Laptev Seas to study ocean, atmosphere and land processes in the changing Arctic
- 1University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (gabriela.schaepman@ieu.uzh.ch)
- 2Swiss Polar Institute, Sion, Switzerland
- 3GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany
- 4Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 5Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
- *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract
The region of the Kara and Laptev Seas in the Russian Arctic has been experiencing one of the highest warming rates globally during past decades. From 5 August – 6 September 2021, the Arctic Century science team gathered unique data during a research expedition, along marine transects and on seven high Arctic islands that are very rarely accessible. The aim of the expedition is to contribute to the understanding of the dynamics and interactions between the ocean, cryosphere, land and atmosphere in the face of global change. Here we provide an overview of the main research topics and investigations performed, including: dynamics of Atlantic water masses; biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in the ocean and on high Arctic islands, at the margin of life; dynamics of the atmosphere and interactions with the ocean and land; past climate change and sea level history reconstruction based on sediment and ice cores; and amount and flow of macro- and microplastic in the ocean and along the shoreline. First analyses of samples and data are currently being performed by the expedition consortium. After an initial moratorium, the data will be made openly accessible to the wider science community.
Aleksey Aksenov (AARI), Dmitriy Bolshiyanov (AARI), Brahimsamba, Ibrahima, Otis Bomou (UNIL), Esther Sophie Breuninger (ETH Zurich), Manuel Burkhardt (GEOMAR), Ekaterina Cherniavskaia (AARI), Ian Arburua Delaney (UNIL), Ksenia Ermokhina (IEE RAS), Florian Evers (GEOMAR), Fabian Fopp (ETH Zurich), Beat Frey (WSL), Ivan Gangnus (MSU, AARI), Frédéric Herman (UNIL), Jens Alfons Hölemann (AWI), Samuel Laurent Jaccard (UNIL), Mélissa Jaquier (ETH Zurich), Zamin Kanji (ETH Zurich), Heidemarie Kassens (GEOMAR), Nikita Kusse-Tiuz (AARI), Georgiy Lebedev (AARI), Guangyu Li (ETH Zurich), Mikhail Makhotin (AARI), Stanislav Malinovskiy (AARI), Viktor Merkulov (AARI), Hanno Martin Meyer (AWI), Athanasios Nenes (EFPL), Thomas Opel (AWI), Loïc Pellissier (ETH Zurich), Habacuc Uematzin Perez Tribouillier (UNIL), Vasiliy Povazhny (AARI), Arianna Rocchi (ICM), Manuel Jannis Ruben (AWI), Eugenio Ruiz Castillo (AWI), Joël Rüthi (WSL), Peter Geoffrey Ryan (UCT), Gabriela Schaepman-Strub (UZH, SPI), Julia Schmale (EPFL), Ekaterina Taldenkova (MSU, AARI), Iris Livia Thurnherr (UiB), Anabel Charlott von Jackowski (GEOMAR), Natalia Vyazigina (AARI), David Johannes Wangner (GEOMAR), André Welti (FMI), Heini Wernli (ETH Zurich), Nadezda Zakharova (AARI), Vitalii Zemlianskii (UZH), Natalia Zhuravliova (AARI), (AARI - Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; AWI - Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven and Potsdam, Germany; EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; ETH Zurich - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; FMI - Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; GEOMAR - GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany; ICM - Institute of Marine Sciences ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; IEE RAS _ A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; SPI - Swiss Polar Institute, Sion, Switzerland; UCT - University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; UiB - University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; UNIL - University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; UZH - University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; WSL - Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland; MSU - Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
How to cite: Schaepman-Strub, G., Kassens, H., Jaccard, S. L., and Makhotin, M. and the Arctic Century science team: Arctic Century 2021 – an interdisciplinary expedition to the Kara and Laptev Seas to study ocean, atmosphere and land processes in the changing Arctic, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-7738, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-7738, 2022.
