Collaborate with us: 27 polar research projects focusing on ice sheets, oceans, carbon and the climate

Are you doing research on the links between ice sheets, carbon cycles, ocean ecosystems and the climate in the Arctic or Antarctica?

We believe that polar research benefits from collaboration – across institutions, across borders, and especially across scientific disciplines.

We have therefore compiled a list of 27 research projects affiliated to iC3. We do not manage all of these projects, but in each case, one or several of our team members are part of the core project group. Taken together, and in combination with our partnership with Tromsø university, the Norwegian Polar Institute and NORCE, this broad engagement makes the iC3 Polar Research Hub a vibrant hive of ground-breaking interdisciplinary research.

If you want to design and run your own research project at iC3 as a postdoc, please check out our MSCA postdoctoral funding support programme.

26 ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC PROJECTS

1. ARCLIM develops and applies new techniques to better understand the earth’s climate system, with an emphasis on the response and sensitivity of the Arctic climate and marine environment to the ongoing anthropogenic changes.
2. Arctic Ocean Physics (Tore Hattermann)
3. BREATHE combines in situ, experimental and model-based approaches to address knowledge gaps on turbulent nutrient supply and ice algal respiration, with results that improve the accuracy of current and projected ice algal production estimates.
4. CLIM2Ant is improving projections of Antarctica’s contribution to sea level rise by combining glaciology, oceanography, numerical modeling, and statistical analysis techniques.
5. CRiceS focuses on improving model predictions of the role of polar processes in the climate system that consists of the oceans, ice and snow cover, and the atmosphere. It brings together 20 international research teams.
6. FACE-IT aims to enable adaptive co-management of social-ecological fjord systems in the Arctic in the face of rapid cryosphere and biodiversity changes.
7. GlaciGas is measuring and mapping methane emissions from bedrock in Svalbard that was previously covered by ice. In the atmosphere, methane is a powerful greenhouse gas.
8. GREASE aims to determine upper bounds for rates of sea-level contribution from the Greenland ice sheet, and to constrain climate change trajectories that lead to a stabilisation of the Greenland ice sheet.
9. HAVOC aims to understand the role of sea-ice ridges, that is sea ice that has been pushed together and formed deep keels and high sails from blocks of ice, as a habitat for the sea-ice associated ecosystem in the central Arctic Ocean
10. ICEBIO is a doctoral network that will train the next generation of glacier microbiology and biogeochemistry experts
11. I-CRYME aims to understand and quantify the impact of the melting cryosphere on the marine ecosystem of the Kong Håkon VII Sea, in the Southern Ocean
12. iMELT (Tore Hattermann)
13. Into the Blue (I2B) will explore the impact of a melting Arctic on the region and the entire earth system by taking a look into the past, at time periods warmer than the present
14. Marine Ecosystem Response to Rapid Arctic Climate Change is improve our understanding of past and present climate variables in the Nordic and Greenland Seas.
15. METALLICA investigates the cycling, export and ecosystem impacts of heavy metals released from Arctic glaciers to fjords.
16. METHANICE Examines the role of methane consuming microorganisms associated with terrestrial seasonal ice covering sub permafrost methane springs.
17. MSCA#1 – The impact of Arctic glacier forefield exposure on soil nitrogen cycling and export to coastal marine environments.
18. MSCA#2 – Characterise and quantify the fate of bioavailable nutrients, trace metals and carbon on phytoplankton productivity and their impact on the biological carbon pump in the Southern Ocean.
19. MSCA#3 – Develop an optical measurement technique to monitor and quantify dissolved iron in glacial meltwaters.
20. nuArctic investigates the remineralization of organic matter in the context of nutrients, oxygen and carbon cycling and models the ability of the Arctic Ocean to act as a carbon sink.
21. OCEAN:ICE assesses the impacts of key Antarctic Ice Sheet and Southern Ocean processes on Planet Earth, via their influence on sea level rise, deep water formation, ocean circulation and climate.
22. SEAMSTRESS aims at quantifying the effect of tectonic forcing on the release of greenhouse gases from the ocean floor in the Arctic.
23. SUDARCO is developing a comprehensive knowledge package to enable Norwegian authorities to improve their management of the Nansen and Amundsen basins.
24. The Nansen Legacy is a holistic Arctic research project providing integrated scientific knowledge on the rapidly changing marine climate and ecosystem. It unites about 280 researchers, students, and technicians from ten Norwegian research institutions. 
25. TiPACCs is investigating tipping points in Antarctic climate components that could cause a dramatic increase in global sea levels.
26. TONe: The Troll Observing Network is establishing a multidisciplinary observation network around the Norwegian Troll research station in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.
27. WOBEC is designing and applying a biodiversity and ecosystem monitoring framework for the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.

If you are interested in getting involved with any of the projects above, please contact iC3 manager Terri Souster.