Data Records
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Vikberg Wernström J, Bluhm B A, Grzelak K, Hobæk A, Björling D, Altenburger A (2025): Meiofauna collected during the Nansen Legacy Project in the Barents Sea. v1.0. The Nansen Legacy Project. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://gbif.imr.no/ipt/resource?r=nansen_legacy_meiofauna&v=1.0
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is The Nansen Legacy Project. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
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Keywords
Samplingevent; meiofauna; barents sea; barentsz sea
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Geographic Coverage
Barents Sea
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [75, 28], North East [83, 35] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Marine benthic meiofauna.
| Phylum | Kinorhyncha, Nematoda, Arthropoda, Cnidaria |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2019-01-01 / 2021-01-01 |
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Project Data
The Nansen Legacy is a novel and holistic Arctic research project that will provide integrated scientific knowledge on the rapidly changing marine climate and ecosystem. A new knowledge base is required to facilitate a sustainable management of the northern Barents Sea and adjacent Arctic Basin through the 21st century. The Nansen Legacy unites about 280 researchers, students, and technicians from ten Norwegian research institutions. The research team includes interdisciplinary arctic marine expertise within physical, chemical, and biological oceanography, as well as geologists, modelers and underwater robotic engineers. Jointly we investigate the past, present and future climate and ecosystem of the northern Barents Sea. In total, the project will spend over 350 days at sea between 2018 and 2022, using the new Norwegian research icebreaker ‘Kronprins Haakon’ as main research platform. The ship-based sampling is complemented by the use of underwater robotics, year-round moored observing platforms and satellite-based observations. Complementary model tools are used to integrate field-based observations, and to investigate the dynamics of the physical and biological components of the northern Barents Sea climate and ecosystem at present and in the future. The Nansen Legacy is home to over 70 early career scientists, providing them with a unique collaborative community and supervision across institutions and disciplines. This gives rise to a new generation of holistic thinking Arctic research leaders. The Nansen Legacy runs for six years (2018–2023), and is funded by the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. They provide 50% of the budget while the participating institutions contribute 50% in-kind. The total budget for the Nansen Legacy project is 740 mill. NOK.
| Title | The Nansen Legacy project |
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| Study Area Description | Barents Sea |
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Sampling Methods
At each station, two sediment replicates were collected using a 50x50 cm giant box corer. After removing the overlying water, a meiofauna subsample was extracted from each replicate using a 5.5 cm diameter plastic sub-core. The subsamples were then sectioned into two 1 cm thick layers (0–1 cm and 1–2 cm). Each sediment fraction was transferred into separate 180 mL containers, gently shaken to break up clumps, preserved with rose bengal-stained 70% ethanol, and stored at room temperature.
| Study Extent | Sediment samples were collected along a predefined north-south transect in the Barents Sea aboard the R/V Kronprins Haakon, following protocols established by the Nansen Legacy project. Sampling was conducted across four seasons—March, May, August, and December. The stations spanned a broad depth range of approximately 300 to 3000 meters, extending from the Barents Sea continental shelf (stations P1 and P4) to the continental slope (station P6) and the Nansen Basin (station P7) in the Arctic Ocean. |
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Method step description:
- 1. sampling 2. fixation 3. manual sorting of meiofauna 4. identification by taxonomic experts
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://gbif.imr.no/ipt/resource?r=nansen_legacy_meiofauna |
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