Ice algae don’t need much light to photosynthesize and grow.
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Monthly Archives: May 2016
After the long winter night, the sudden brightness
A large fraction of the Ocean in the Arctic is covered by ice in the winter. Very little light penetrates under the thick ice recovered by snow during the long polar night. Still phytoplankton, tiny unicellular algae a few 1/1000th of millimeters (1/1000 mm is called a micron) in size and which is at the base of arctic marine food chains, is present in these cold and dark waters.
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First Rendez-vous with children: Be curious about the ice-breaker!
Following our last post about the interactive and multimedia project In the wake of an ice-breaker in the Arctic, associated to the AOA educative website, the scientific team is setting up an original and innovative teaching device intended for primary schoolstudents, to allow them to discover the Arctic region, the scientific and non-scientific crew, as well as the challenges of the undertaking research in the area. Continue reading First Rendez-vous with children: Be curious about the ice-breaker!