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Finlo Cottier is affiliated with the Scottish Association For Marine Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, encompassing a total of 95 publications across these fields.

The scientist's subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry. Within these areas, their work focuses on Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, methane hydrates and related phenomena, marine and fisheries research, marine biology and ecology research, isotope analysis in ecology, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Frequent publication venues where Finlo Cottier has contributed include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Glaciology
  • AMBIO

Frequent co-authors collaborating with the scientist are:

  • Jørgen Berge
  • Marie Porter
  • Neil S. Banas
  • Malin Daase
  • Geir Johnsen

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Finlo Cottier include:

  • Variability and decadal trends in the Isfjorden (Svalbard) ocean climate and circulation - An indicator for climate change in the European Arctic, 2020, Progress In Oceanography
  • Artificial light during the polar night disrupts Arctic fish and zooplankton behaviour down to 200 m depth, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Iceberg melting substantially modifies oceanic heat flux towards a major Greenlandic tidewater glacier, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Shine a light: Under-ice light and its ecological implications in a changing Arctic Ocean, 2021, AMBIO
  • Can a key boreal Calanus copepod species now complete its life-cycle in the Arctic? Evidence and implications for Arctic food-webs, 2021, AMBIO

Best Publications

  • Water mass modification in an Arctic fjord through cross-shelf exchange: The seasonal hydrography of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard

    Finlo Cottier;Vigdis Tverberg;Mark Inall;Harald Svendsen

  • Fjord-shelf exchanges controlled by ice and brine production: The interannual variation of Atlantic Water in Isfjorden, Svalbard

    Frank Nilsen;Frank Nilsen;Finlo Cottier;Ragnheid Skogseth;S Mattsson

  • Wintertime warming of an Arctic shelf in response to large‐scale atmospheric circulation

    Finlo Cottier;Frank Nilsen;Frank Nilsen;Mark Inall;Sebastian Gerland

  • Calving rates at tidewater glaciers vary strongly with ocean temperature

    Adrian Luckman;Douglas I. Benn;Finlo Cottier;Suzanne Bevan

  • Arctic fjords: a review of the oceanographic environment and dominant physical processes

    F. R. Cottier;F. Nilsen;R. Skogseth;V. Tverberg

  • In the dark: A review of ecosystem processes during the Arctic polar night

    Jørgen Berge;Paul E. Renaud;Gerald Darnis;Finlo Cottier

  • Diel vertical migration of Arctic zooplankton during the polar night

    Jørgen Berge;Finlo Cottier;Øystein Varpe

  • The influence of advection on zooplankton community composition in an Arctic fjord (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard)

    Kate Willis;Finlo Cottier;Slawek Kwasniewski;Anette Wold

  • Moonlight Drives Ocean-Scale Mass Vertical Migration of Zooplankton during the Arctic Winter

    Laura Hobbs;Jørgen Berge;Andrew S Brierley

  • Unexpected Levels of Biological Activity during the Polar Night Offer New Perspectives on a Warming Arctic.

    Jørgen Berge;Malin Daase;Paul E. Renaud;William G. Ambrose

  • First records of Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) from the Svalbard archipelago, Norway, with possible explanations for the extension of its distribution

    Jørgen Berge;Kristin N. Heggland;Ole Jørgen Lønne;Finlo R. Cottier

  • Unsynchronised and synchronised vertical migration of zooplankton in a high Arctic fjord

    Finlo R. Cottier;Geraint A. Tarling;Anette Wold;Stig Falk-Petersen

  • Variability and decadal trends in the Isfjorden (Svalbard) ocean climate and circulation – An indicator for climate change in the European Arctic

    Ragnheid Skogseth;Léa L.A. Olivier;Léa L.A. Olivier;Frank Nilsen;Frank Nilsen;Eva Falck;Eva Falck

  • Comparison of zooplankton vertical migration in an ice-free and a seasonally ice-covered Arctic fjord: An insight into the influence of sea ice cover on zooplankton behavior

    Margaret I. Wallace;Finlo R. Cottier;Jørgen Berge;Geraint A. Tarling

  • The Kongsfjorden Transect:: seasonal and inter-annual variability in hydrography

    Vigdis Tverberg;Ragnheid Skogseth;Finlo Cottier;Arild Sundfjord

  • Oceanic heat delivery via Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord to the south‐east Greenland ice sheet

    Mark E. Inall;Tavi Murray;Finlo R. Cottier;Kilian Scharrer

  • At the rainbow's end: high productivity fueled by winter upwelling along an Arctic shelf

    Stig Falk-Petersen;Vladimir Pavlov;Jørgen Berge;Finlo Cottier

  • Effects of glacier runoff and wind on surface layer dynamics and Atlantic Water exchange in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard; a model study

    A. Sundfjord;J. Albretsen;Y. Kasajima;R. Skogseth

  • Linkages between salinity and brine channel distribution in young sea ice

    Finlo Cottier;Finlo Cottier;H. Eicken;P. Wadhams

  • Arctic complexity: a case study on diel vertical migration of zooplankton

    Jørgen Berge;Finlo Cottier;Øystein Varpe;Paul E. Renaud

  • Impact of warm water advection on the winter zooplankton community in an Arctic fjord

    Kate J. Willis;Finlo R. Cottier;Slawek Kwaśniewski

  • Pelagic food-webs in a changing Arctic:: A trait-based perspective suggests a mode of resilience

    Paul Eric Renaud;Malin Daase;Neil Banas;Tove M. Gabrielsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jørgen Berge
Jørgen Berge University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Mark Inall
Mark Inall Scottish Association For Marine Science
Geir Johnsen
Geir Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Frank Nilsen
Frank Nilsen University of Bergen
Paul E. Renaud
Paul E. Renaud University Centre in Svalbard
Stig Falk-Petersen
Stig Falk-Petersen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Øystein Varpe
Øystein Varpe University of Bergen
Janne E. Søreide
Janne E. Søreide University Centre in Svalbard
John A. Howe
John A. Howe Scottish Association For Marine Science
Andrew Sole
Andrew Sole University of Sheffield

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