• Float by Pennie Lindeque, DIAPOD

    Changing Arctic Ocean: Implications for marine biology and biogeochemistry

    Understanding and quantifying the impacts of climate change on Arctic ecosystems and their global consequences

  • DSC_1045 by Johan Faust, ChAOS

    Changing Arctic Ocean: Implications for marine biology and biogeochemistry

    Understanding and quantifying the impacts of climate change on Arctic ecosystems and their global consequences

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  • Bear reflection by Dr Emily Venables, Arctic PRIZE

    Changing Arctic Ocean: Implications for marine biology and biogeochemistry

    Understanding and quantifying the impacts of climate change on Arctic ecosystems and their global consequences

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The CAO Projects

The four large projects of the CAO Programme started in February 2017. Each one investigates different aspects of the Changing Arctic Ocean. Combined, the projects involve 18 UK research institutions and more than 80 scientists.

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  • 12 June 2018

    Impacts of climate change on Arctic Ocean ecosystem under scrutiny by UK scientists

    The second scientific cruise of the 2018 summer season sets off to the Arctic Ocean today. It is part of the £16 million, UK flagship research programme the Changing Arctic Ocean, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

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  • 08 June 2018

    Robots detect start to Arctic’s marine ‘spring bloom’

    On the BBC website: Underwater robots have detected the moment the Arctic’s marine ecosystem “wakes up” after the long dark winter season.

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