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  • 2020 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

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Bodil A. Bluhm is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with extensive contributions to Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry. The scientist's work often addresses topics related to Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, marine biology and ecology research, isotope analysis in ecology, methane hydrates and related phenomena, marine and coastal plant biology, marine and fisheries research, and Arctic and Russian policy studies.

Several recent publications highlight the range of their scientific inquiries. These include:

  • "Borealization of the Arctic Ocean in Response to Anomalous Advection From Sub-Arctic Seas" (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Latitudinal, seasonal and depth-dependent variation in growth, chemical composition and biofouling of cultivated Saccharina latissima (Phaeophyceae) along the Norwegian coast" (2020), published in Journal of Applied Phycology
  • "Changes in Sea-Ice Protist Diversity With Declining Sea Ice in the Arctic Ocean From the 1980s to 2010s" (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "The Pan-Arctic Continental Slope: Sharp Gradients of Physical Processes Affect Pelagic and Benthic Ecosystems" (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "What Feeds the Benthos in the Arctic Basins? Assembling a Carbon Budget for the Deep Arctic Ocean" (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent co-authors of Bodil A. Bluhm include:

  • Rolf Gradinger
  • Paul E. Renaud
  • Lis Lindal Jørgensen
  • Randi B. Ingvaldsen
  • Miriam Marquardt

The scientist's work has been published often in several key venues, such as:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Polar Biology
  • Scientific Reports

Bodil A. Bluhm has contributed to book publications as well, including a title published by Frontiers Media: "Towards a Unifying Pan-Arctic Perspective of the Contemporary and Future Arctic Ocean" (2021).

Recognition of their work includes being named a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Freshwater and its role in the Arctic Marine System: Sources, disposition, storage, export, and physical and biogeochemical consequences in the Arctic and global oceans

    Edward C. Carmack;Michiyo Yamamoto-Kawai;Thomas W. N. Haine;Sheldon Bacon

  • Regional variability in food availability for Arctic marine mammals.

    Bodil A. Bluhm;Rolf Gradinger

  • Global Patterns and Predictions of Seafloor Biomass Using Random Forests

    Chih-Lin Wei;Gilbert T. Rowe;Elva Escobar-Briones;Antje Boetius

  • Borealization of the Arctic Ocean in response to anomalous advection from sub-Arctic seas.

    Igor V. Polyakov;Igor V. Polyakov;Matthew B. Alkire;Bodil A. Bluhm;Kristina A. Brown

  • Ecosystem characteristics and processes facilitating persistent macrobenthic biomass hotspots and associated benthivory in the Pacific Arctic

    Jacqueline M. Grebmeier;Bodil A. Bluhm;Bodil A. Bluhm;Lee W. Cooper;Seth L. Danielson

  • Benthic food-web structure under differing water mass properties in the southern Chukchi Sea

    Katrin Iken;Bodil Bluhm;Kenneth Dunton

  • In-situ observations on the distribution and behavior of amphipods and Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) under the sea ice of the High Arctic Canada Basin

    Rolf R. Gradinger;Bodil A. Bluhm

  • Food web structure in the high Arctic Canada Basin: evidence from δ13C and δ15N analysis

    K Iken;BA Bluhm;R Gradinger

  • Community structure of epibenthic megafauna in the Chukchi Sea

    B. A. Bluhm;K. Iken;S. Mincks Hardy;B. I. Sirenko

  • Towards a pan-Arctic inventory of the species diversity of the macro- and megabenthic fauna of the Arctic shelf seas

    Dieter Piepenburg;Philippe Archambault;William G. Ambrose;Arny L. Blanchard

  • A tale of two basins: An integrated physical and biological perspective of the deep Arctic Ocean

    B.A. Bluhm;B.A. Bluhm;K.N. Kosobokova;E.C. Carmack

  • The future of Arctic benthos: Expansion, invasion, and biodiversity

    Paul E. Renaud;Mikael K. Sejr;Bodil A. Bluhm;Bodil A. Bluhm;Boris Sirenko

  • Diversity of the arctic deep-sea benthos

    Bluhm A. Bodil;William G. Ambrose;Melanie Bergmann;Lisa M. Clough

  • Arctic Marine Biodiversity: An Update of Species Richness and Examples of Biodiversity Change

    Bodil Bluhm;Andrey Gebruk;Rolf Gradinger;Russell Hopcroft

  • Amphipod prey of gray whales in the northern Bering Sea : Comparison of biomass and distribution between the 1980s and 2002-2003

    Kenneth O. Coyle;Bodil Bluhm;Brenda Konar;Arny Blanchard

  • Benthic macrofauna and megafauna assemblages in the Arctic deep-sea Canada Basin

    Ian R. MacDonald;Bodil A. Bluhm;Katrin Iken;Sergey Gagaev

  • Trait-based approaches in rapidly changing ecosystems: A roadmap to the future polar oceans

    Renate Degen;Magnus Aune;Bodil A. Bluhm;Camilla Cassidy

  • Using stable isotopes to assess carbon and nitrogen turnover in the Arctic sympagic amphipod Onisimus litoralis

    Mette R. Kaufman;Rolf R. Gradinger;Bodil A. Bluhm;Diane M. O’Brien

  • Abundance and composition of the sea-ice meiofauna in off-shore pack ice of the Beaufort Gyre in summer 2002 and 2003

    Rolf R. Gradinger;Klaus Meiners;Gerry Plumley;Qing Zhang

  • Arctic sea-ice ridges—Safe heavens for sea-ice fauna during periods of extreme ice melt?

    Rolf Gradinger;Bodil Bluhm;Katrin Iken

  • Age determination in the antarctic shrimp Notocrangon antarcticus (Crustacea : Decapoda), using the autofluorescent pigment lipofuscin

    B. A. Bluhm;Thomas Brey

  • Macro- and megabenthic communities in the high Arctic Canada Basin: initial findings

    B. A. Bluhm;I. R. MacDonald;C. Debenham;K. Iken

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Gradinger
Rolf Gradinger University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Katrin Iken
Katrin Iken University of Alaska Fairbanks
Russell R. Hopcroft
Russell R. Hopcroft University of Alaska Fairbanks
Jacqueline M. Grebmeier
Jacqueline M. Grebmeier University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Seth L. Danielson
Seth L. Danielson University of Alaska Fairbanks
Igor V. Polyakov
Igor V. Polyakov University of Alaska Fairbanks
Paul E. Renaud
Paul E. Renaud University Centre in Svalbard
Eddy C. Carmack
Eddy C. Carmack Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Haakon Hop
Haakon Hop Norwegian Polar Institute
Brenda Konar
Brenda Konar University of Alaska Fairbanks

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