In recent decades, the land-ocean aquatic continuum, commonly defined as the interface, or
transition zone, between terrestrial ecosystems and the open ocean, has undergone …

Photoautotrophic marine ecosystems can lock up organic carbon in their biomass and the
associated organic sediments they trap over millennia and are thus regarded as blue carbon …

Approximately 60% of Svalbard's land areas are glaciated at the present time. The
Archipelago has more than 1100 glaciers (> 1 km 2) and 163 of these are “tidewater …

Glacial environments may provide an important but poorly constrained source of potentially
bioavailable iron and manganese phases to the coastal ocean in high-latitude regions. Little …

Twelve glaciers, representing various types, were investigated between 2000 and 2005, in a
region adjacent to the northern reaches of Billefjorden, central Spitsbergen (Svalbard). On …

The aim of this study was to estimate the spatial variability of organic carbon (C org) and
total nitrogen (N tot) concentrations, C org/N tot ratios, stable isotopes of carbon and …

Global environmental changes not only contribute to the modification of global pollution
transport pathways but can also alter contaminant fate within the Arctic. Recent reports …

Multi-proxy analyses of two sediment cores from central Isfjorden were used to reconstruct
the glacial history in central Spitsbergen during the Late Weichselian and the Holocene, and …

Two methods–in situ sediment trap experiments and an isotopic method based on
measurements of 210 Pb activities in the sediment cores taken near the traps–were applied …

The Little Ice Age (∼ 1600–1900 AD) and 20th century sediment accumulation rates in
Billefjorden, a subpolar fjord on Svalbard, were reconstructed by applying 210Pb, 137Cs …