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Michael L. Carroll is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these broader disciplines, they focus on several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research

Michael L. Carroll has published frequently in several scientific venues. These include:

  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate Environment and Climate Report Series
  • Earth system science data
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Selected recent publications by the scientist feature the following works:

  • CASCADE - The Circum-Arctic Sediment CArbon DatabasE, 2021, Earth system science data
  • Cold Seeps in a Warming Arctic: Insights for Benthic Ecology, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Fundamental questions and applications of sclerochronology: Community-defined research priorities, 2020, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Persistent Multidecadal Variability Since the 15th Century in the Southern Barents Sea Derived From Annually Resolved Shell-Based Records, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Ontogenetic movements of cod in Arctic fjords and the Barents Sea as revealed by otolith microchemistry, 2020, Polar Biology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors, including:

  • William G. Ambrose
  • Emmelie K. L. Åström
  • Madelyn Mette
  • Arunima Sen
  • JoLynn Carroll

Best Publications

  • Food webs and carbon flux in the Barents Sea

    Paul Wassmann;Marit Reigstad;Tore Haug;Bert Rudels

  • Organic enrichment of sediments from salmon farming in Norway: environmental factors, management practices, and monitoring techniques

    Michael L Carroll;Sabine Cochrane;Reinhold Fieler;Roger Velvin

  • Seasonal food web structures and sympagic–pelagic coupling in the European Arctic revealed by stable isotopes and a two-source food web model

    Janne E. Søreide;Haakon Hop;Michael L. Carroll;Stig Falk-Petersen

  • Carbonate clumped isotope compositions of modern marine mollusk and brachiopod shells

    Gregory A. Henkes;Benjamin H. Passey;Alan D. Wanamaker;Ethan L. Grossman

  • Benthic community response to ice algae and phytoplankton in Ny Ålesund, Svalbard

    Kelton W. McMahon;William G. Ambrose;Beverly J. Johnson;Ming-Yi Sun

  • Seasonal feeding strategies of Calanus in the high-Arctic Svalbard region

    Janne E. Søreide;Stig Falk-Petersen;Stig Falk-Petersen;Else Nøst Hegseth;Haakon Hop

  • Trophic relationships and pelagic-benthic coupling during summer in the Barents Sea Marginal Ice Zone, revealed by stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements

    Tobias Tamelander;Paul E. Renaud;Haakon Hop;Michael L. Carroll

  • 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

  • Sympagic-pelagic-benthic coupling in Arctic and Atlantic waters around Svalbard revealed by stable isotopic and fatty acid tracers

    Janne E. Søreide;Michael L. Carroll;Haakon Hop;William G. Ambrose

  • Pelagic–benthic coupling in the western Barents Sea: Processes and time scales

    Paul E. Renaud;Nathalie Morata;Michael L. Carroll;Stanislav G. Denisenko

  • Long-term patterns of rocky bottom macrobenthic community structure in an Arctic fjord (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard) in relation to climate variability (1980–2003)

    Frank Beuchel;Bjørn Gulliksen;Michael L. Carroll

  • Postglacial response of Arctic Ocean gas hydrates to climatic amelioration

    Pavel Serov;Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta;Jurgen Mienert;Henry Patton

  • The Arctic seas

    Michael L. Carroll;JoLynn Carroll

  • Variation in Serripes groenlandicus (Bivalvia) growth in a Norwegian high-Arctic fjord : evidence for local- and large-scale climatic forcing

    William G. Ambrose;William G. Ambrose;Michael L. Carroll;Michael Greenacre;Simon R. Thorrold

  • Pelagic and sympagic contribution of organic matter to zooplankton and vertical export in the Barents Sea marginal ice zone

    Tobias Tamelander;Tobias Tamelander;Marit Reigstad;Haakon Hop;Michael L. Carroll

  • Linking large‐scale climate variability with Arctica islandica shell growth and geochemistry in northern Norway

    Madelyn J. Mette;Alan D. Wanamaker;Michael L. Carroll;William G. Ambrose

  • Bivalves as indicators of environmental variation and potential anthropogenic impacts in the southern Barents Sea.

    Michael L. Carroll;Beverly J. Johnson;Gregory A. Henkes;Kelton W. McMahon

  • Benthic infauna of the seasonally ice-covered western Barents Sea: Patterns and relationships to environmental forcing

    Michael L. Carroll;Stanislav G. Denisenko;Paul E. Renaud;William G. Ambrose

  • Methane cold seeps as biological oases in the high‐Arctic deep sea

    Emmelie K. L. Åström;Michael L. Carroll;William G. Ambrose;Arunima Sen

  • Environmental factors regulating gaping activity of the bivalve Arctica islandica in Northern Norway

    Irene Ballesta-Artero;Rob Witbaard;Michael L. Carroll;Jaap van der Meer

  • Recent sediment accumulation rates for the Western margin of the Barents Sea

    Agata Zaborska;JoLynn Carroll;Carlo Papucci;Leonardo Torricelli

Frequent Co-Authors

William G. Ambrose
William G. Ambrose Coastal Carolina University
JoLynn Carroll
JoLynn Carroll University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Haakon Hop
Haakon Hop Norwegian Polar Institute
Stig Falk-Petersen
Stig Falk-Petersen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Janne E. Søreide
Janne E. Søreide University Centre in Svalbard
Paul E. Renaud
Paul E. Renaud University Centre in Svalbard
Keith A. Hobson
Keith A. Hobson University of Western Ontario
Alan D. Wanamaker
Alan D. Wanamaker Iowa State University
Marit Reigstad
Marit Reigstad University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Bryan Andrew Black
Bryan Andrew Black University of Arizona

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