The Arctic ocean estuary

JW McClelland, RM Holmes, KH Dunton… - Estuaries and …, 2012 - Springer
Large freshwater contributions to the Arctic Ocean from a variety of sources combine in what
is, by global standards, a remarkably small ocean basin. Indeed, the Arctic Ocean …

From sea to sea: Canada's three oceans of biodiversity

P Archambault, PVR Snelgrove, JAD Fisher… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Evaluating and understanding biodiversity in marine ecosystems are both necessary and
challenging for conservation. This paper compiles and summarizes current knowledge of the …

Climate variability and physical forcing of the food webs and the carbon budget on panarctic shelves

E Carmack, D Barber, J Christensen… - Progress in …, 2006 - Elsevier
Brief overviews of the Arctic's atmosphere, ice cover, circulation, primary production and
sediment regime are given to provide a conceptual framework for considering panarctic …

Variability in oceanographic and ecological processes in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

C Michel, RG Ingram, LR Harris - Progress in Oceanography, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper brings together unpublished historical data sets and published literature to
review the role of climatic, oceanographic and ecological processes in the marine …

The contiguous panarctic Riverine Coastal Domain: A unifying concept

E Carmack, P Winsor, W Williams - Progress in Oceanography, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Riverine Coastal Domain (RCD) is a narrow (∼< 15 km), shallow (∼ 10 m)
contiguous feature that is primarily forced driven by an aggregate of continental runoff …

Hydrocarbon biodegradation by Arctic sea-ice and sub-ice microbial communities during microcosm experiments, Northwest Passage (Nunavut, Canada)

MÈ Garneau, C Michel, G Meisterhans… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The increasing accessibility to navigation and offshore oil exploration brings risks of
hydrocarbon releases in Arctic waters. Bioremediation of hydrocarbons is a promising …

Towards a unifying pan-arctic perspective: A conceptual modelling toolkit

P Wassmann, EC Carmack, BA Bluhm… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Arctic Ocean is overwhelmingly forced by its lateral boundaries, and interacts
with, the global system. For the development of nested conceptual models of the Arctic …

The International Polar Year (IPY) Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL) system study: overview and the physical system

DG Barber, MG Asplin, Y Gratton, JV Lukovich… - Atmosphere …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL) system study is a Canadian‐led International
Polar Year (IPY) initiative with over 350 participants from 27 countries. The study is …

The impact of rising sea temperatures on an Arctic top predator, the narwhal

P Chambault, OM Tervo, E Garde, RG Hansen… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Arctic top predators are expected to be impacted by increasing temperatures associated with
climate change, but the relationship between increasing sea temperatures and population …

Environmental drivers of the Canadian Arctic megabenthic communities

V Roy, K Iken, P Archambault - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Environmental gradients and their influence on benthic community structure vary over
different spatial scales; yet, few studies in the Arctic have attempted to study the influence of …