• 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 ...
    • Changes in sea ice cover and ice sheet extent at the Yermak Plateau during the last 160 ka - Reconstructions from biomarker records 

      Kremer, A; Stein, R; Fahl, K.; Ji, Z; Yang, Z; Wiers, Steffen; Matthiessen, J; Forwick, Matthias; Löwemark, Ludvig; O'Regan, M; Chen, J; Snowball, Ian (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-02-15)
      The Yermak Plateau is located north of Svalbard at the entrance to the Arctic Ocean, i.e. in an area highly sensitive to climate change. A multi proxy approach was carried out on Core PS92/039-2 to study glacial-interglacial environmental changes at the northern Barents Sea margin during the last 160 ka. The main emphasis was on the reconstruction of sea ice cover, based on the sea ice proxy ...