- Source: FjordEco Project
The FjordEco Project, formally titled Fjord Ecosystem Structure and Function on the West Antarctica Peninsula – Hotspots of Productivity and Biodiversity?(FjordEco), is an integrated field and modeling study supported by the United States National Science Foundation. The study conducted research cruises to Andvord Bay in Nov-Dec 2015, April 2016, and Mar-Apr 2017 to evaluate physical oceanographic processes, glacial inputs, plankton dynamics, and benthic community structure and function in the bay.
Publication
Scientific publications from the project include the following:
Christensen, K., 2017. The Upper Layer Structure and Variability of an Antarctic Glacio-marine Fjord: Andvord Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula.
Cusick, A.M., Gilmore, R., Bombosch, A., Mascioni, M., Almandoz, G.O. and Vernet, M., 2020. Polar tourism as an effective research tool. Oceanography, 33(1), pp. 50–61.
Eidam, E.F., Nittrouer, C.A., Lundesgaard, Ø., Homolka, K.K. and Smith, C.R., 2019. Variability of sediment accumulation rates in an Antarctic fjord. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(22), pp. 13271–13280.
Ekern, L., 2017. Assessing seasonal primary production in Andvord Bay, Antarctica (Master thesis, UC San Diego).
Forsch, K., Hahn-Woernle, L., Sherrell, R., Roccanova, J., Bu, K., Burdige, D., Vernet, M. and Barbeau, K.A., 2021. Seasonal dispersal of fjord meltwaters as an important source of iron to coastal Antarctic phytoplankton. Biogeosciences Discussions, pp. 1–49.
Hahn-Woernle, L., Powell, B., Lundesgaard, Ø. and van Wessem, M., 2020. Sensitivity of the summer upper ocean heat content in a Western Antarctic Peninsula fjord. Progress in Oceanography, 183, p. 102287.
Hamilton, M., 2021. The Molecular Diversity and Physiology of Polar Phytoplankton (Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz).
Lewis, M., 2018. Assessing the down-fjord mechanistic relationships of biodiversity and abundance of Antarctic benthic macrofauna of Andvord Bay (Senior Thesis, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa).
Lundesgaard, Ø., 2018. Physical processes in a Western Antarctic Peninsula fjord (Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawai'i at Manoa).
Lundesgaard, O., Powell, B., Merrifield, M., Hahn-Woernle, L. and Winsor, P. 2019, Response of an Antarctic Peninsula Fjord to Summer Katabatic Wind Events, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 49, 1485–1502, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-18-0119.1
Lundesgaard, O., Winsor, P., Truffer, M., Merrifield, M., Powell, B., Statscewich, H., Eidam, E., and Smith, C.R., 2020. Hydrography and energetics of a cold fjord: Andvord Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula. Progress in Oceanography, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102224.
Mascioni, M., Almandoz, G.O., Ekern, L., Pan, B.J. and Vernet, M., 2021. Microplanktonic diatom assemblages dominated the primary production but not the biomass in an Antarctic fjord. Journal of Marine Systems, 224, p. 103624.
Pan, B.J., 2020. The Impact of Seasonal Environmental Variables on Phytoplankton Ecology at the Antarctic Ice-Ocean Boundary: Studies Through Field Work, Numerical Models, Data Science, and Machine Learning. University of California, San Diego.
Pan, B.J., Vernet, M., Manck, L., Forsch, K., Ekern, L., Mascioni, M., Barbeau, K, Almandoz, G., and Orona, A.J., 2020, Environmental Drivers of Phytoplankton Taxonomic Composition in an Antarctic Fjord, Progress in Oceanography, 183, 102295, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102295
Pan, B.J., Vernet, M., Reynolds, R.A., and Mitchell, B.G., 2020, The optical and biological properties of glacial meltwater in an Antarctic fjord, PLoS ONE, 14, 2, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211107
Smith Craig, R., Vernet, M., Winsor, P., Lundesgaard, O., Powell, B., Truffer, M., Merrifield, M., Sweetman, A., Nunnally, C., Ziegler, A. and Lewis, M., 2017, July. Multi-disciplinary studies of Andvord Bay indicate katabatic wind forcing, pulses of export flux, and high food availability and benthic abundance in inner fjord basins. In Book of Abstracts (p. 429).
Ziegler, A., 2019. Environmental Drivers of Benthic Community Structure and Function in Fjords of the West Antarctic Peninsula. PhD Dissertation, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Ziegler, A.F., Cape, M., Lundesgaard, Ø. and Smith, C.R., 2020. Intense deposition and rapid processing of seafloor phytodetritus in a glaciomarine fjord, Andvord Bay (Antarctica). Progress in Oceanography, 187, p. 102413.
Ziegler, A.F., Hahn-Woernle, L., Powell, B., and Smith, C. R., 2020. Larval dispersal modeling suggests limited ecological connectivity between fjords on the West Antarctic Peninsula. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icaa094, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa094
Ziegler, A.F., Smith, C.R., Edwards, K.F. and Vernet, M., 2017. Glacial dropstones: islands enhancing seafloor species richness of benthic megafauna in West Antarctic Peninsula fjords. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 583, pp. 1–14.
Further reading
J. B. Anderson, Antarctic Marine Geology, pp. 126–129
Reuters, ‘Artificial ice’ could save giant Antarctic ice sheet from collapsing, July 18, 2019
Zhihua Zhang, Editor, ‘Artificial ice’ could save giant Antarctic ice sheet from collapsing, 2019 Feb 6.
