• Ballasting by cryogenic gypsum enhances carbon export in a Phaeocystis under-ice bloom 

      Wollenburg, JE; Katlein, C; Nehrke, Gernot; Nöthig, E.-M; Matthiessen, J; Wolf-Gladrow, Dieter A.; Nikolopoulos, A.; Gazquez-Sanchez, F; Rossmann, L; Assmy, Philipp; Babin, Marcel; Bruyant, F; Beaulieu, Michaël; Dybwad, Christine; Peeken, Ilka (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-05-16)
      Mineral ballasting enhances carbon export from the surface to the deep ocean; however, little is known about the role of this process in the ice-covered Arctic Ocean. Here, we propose gypsum ballasting as a new mechanism that likely facilitated enhanced vertical carbon export from an under-ice phytoplankton bloom dominated by the haptophyte Phaeocystis. In the spring 2015 abundant gypsum crystals ...
    • Floating Ice-Algal Aggregates below melting Arctic Sea Ice 

      Assmy, P; Ehn, Jens K.; Fernandez-Mendez, M; Hop, H; Katlein, C; Sundfjord, Arild; Bluhm, K; Daase, Malin; Engel, A.; Fransson, A.; Granskog, M.A.; Hudson, SR; Kristiansen, Svein; Nicolaus, M.; Peeken, I.; Renner, AHH; Spreen, Gunnar; Tatarek, Agnieszka; Wiktor, Josef (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      During two consecutive cruises to the Eastern Central Arctic in late summer 2012, we observed floating algal aggregates in the melt-water layer below and between melting ice floes of first-year pack ice. The macroscopic (1-15 cm in diameter) aggregates had a mucous consistency and were dominated by typical ice-associated pennate diatoms embedded within the mucous matrix. Aggregates maintained ...