HE31A:
Changing Biogeochemical Fluxes, Biodiversity, and Ecological Processes in the Polar Seas, with Special Emphasis on the Coastal Arctic and Sustaining an Integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System II

Session ID#: 92317

Session Description:
Inextricably linked to climate change, the Polar Seas are undergoing drastic changes with global implications. Arctic and Antarctic sea ice and ice sheets are melting, the ocean is acidifying, freshwater fluxes and mixing regimes are changing. Yet, the impacts on marine biodiversity, biogeochemistry, and the function of polar communities and ecosystems remain poorly characterized. These factors, among others, will influence the design, implementation, and enhancement of sustained and integrated polar ocean observing systems urgently needed to assess current conditions and enable improved predictions. This session will bring together modelers, observationalists, and other stakeholders to exchange information and improve understanding on the current state-of-knowledge, gaps, and challenges in observing and modelling the coupled physical, biogeochemical, and ecological processes in the rapidly changing polar oceans, with an emphasis on the coastal Arctic. Submissions are also encouraged on multipurpose observing technology and platforms that form an integrated shared infrastructure for use in the Arctic Ocean (e.g., acoustics and cabled systems). We seek interdisciplinary data and synthesis products that relate climate change to biodiversity changes, altered biogeochemical cycles, and ecological shifts across spatial scales, how feedbacks and controls operate and, ultimately, what new conditions might be present in Earth’s polar systems on decadal and longer time scales.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • CP - Coastal and Estuarine Processes
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies
  • ME - Marine Ecology and Biodiversity
Index Terms:

1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
9315 Arctic region [GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION]
9315 Arctic region [GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION]
9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
Primary Chair:  Maria Tzortziou, Columbia University of New York, New York, United States
Co-chairs:  Ilka Peeken, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Polar Biological Oceanography, Bremerhaven, Germany and Dr. Bruce M Howe, PhD, University of Hawaii, Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering (ORE), School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Honolulu, United States
Primary Liaison:  Maria Tzortziou, Columbia University of New York, New York, United States
Moderators:  Maria Tzortziou, Columbia University of New York, New York, United States, Atsushi Matsuoka, Universite Laval, Department of Biology, Québec, Canada, Dr. Bruce M Howe, PhD, University of Hawaii, Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering (ORE), School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Honolulu, United States and Ilka Peeken, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Polar Biological Oceanography, Bremerhaven, Germany
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Agnieszka Beszczynska-Moeller, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

HE31A-01
Directly Measuring Physical and Biogeochemical Proxies of the Kuparuk and Sagavanirktok Rivers during the Spring Freshet, in Adjacent Ice-covered Coastal Arctic Waters (646352)
Samuel R Laney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, Stephen R Okkonen, University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, United States, Krista Longnecker, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States and Luka Anthony Catipovic, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States
HE31A-02
Dissolved Organic Matter in Alaskan Coastal Waters: Dynamics of Riverine Discharge Effects on the Quantity and Quality of CDOM and DOC (655256)
Michael G Novak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Peter J Hernes, University of California - Davis, Davis, United States, Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert G Spencer, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States and Maria Tzortziou, Columbia University of New York, New York, United States
HE31A-03
Variability and degradation of colored dissolved organic matter along the Yukon River-plume-coastal ocean continuum (646261)
Brice Grunert, CUNY City College of New York, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States, Maria Tzortziou, CUNY City College of New York, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, United States, Alana Menendez, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, Patrick Neale, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, United States, Peter J Hernes, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Antonio Mannino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robert G Spencer, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States
HE31A-04
Delivery of terrigenous nutrients from rivers and coastal erosion sustain up to one third of Arctic Ocean Net Primary Production (652493)
Ronny Lauerwald1,2, Jens Terhaar2,3, Pierre A. G. Regnier4, Nicolas Gruber5 and Laurent Bopp6, (1)Université Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Geoscience, Environment and Society, Brussels, Belgium, (2)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (3)Université Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, (4)Department of Geosciences, Environment & Society (DGES), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, (5)Environmental Physics, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, (6)Ecole normale supérieure (ENS), Département de Géosciences, Paris, France
HE31A-05
Remote Sensing of Coastal Waters in the North Slope of Alaska (647156)
Wesley Moses, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States and Steven Ackleson, Naval Research Laboratory, Falls Church, VA
HE31A-06
CAATEX Expedition to the North Pole (655297)
Hanne Sagen1, Espen Storheim1, Florian Geyer1, Peter F. Worcester2, Agnieszka Beszczynska-Moeller3, Stein Sandven1, Andreas Kjøl4 and Nick Hughes5, (1)Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway, (2)Univ of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, (4)Norwegian Coastal Administration, Norway, (5)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
HE31A-07
INTAROS: Integrated Arctic observation system development under Horizon 2020 (655535)
Stein Sandven1, Hanne Sagen1 and INTAROS consortium, (1)Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway
HE31A-08
Coordinating Observations of Arctic Change: A Model for the Greater Arctic Region (656912)
Molly McCammon and Carol Janzen, Alaska Ocean Observing System, Anchorage, AK, United States
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