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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Paul Wassmann is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Social Sciences, with particular contributions in subfields including Atmospheric Science, Sociology and Political Science, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Geology.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, marked by a strong emphasis on Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Arctic and Russian Policy Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Geological Studies and Exploration. Additional areas include Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Wassmann has published in a variety of academic venues, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Biogeosciences
  • Polar Research

Their recent significant papers include:

  • Towards a unifying pan-arctic perspective: A conceptual modelling toolkit (2020), Progress In Oceanography
  • Borealization of the Arctic Ocean in Response to Anomalous Advection From Sub-Arctic Seas (2020), Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Revisiting the footprints of climate change in Arctic marine food webs: An assessment of knowledge gained since 2010 (2023), Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Still Arctic?-The changing Barents Sea (2023), Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Arctic (Svalbard islands) active and exported diatom stocks and cell health status (2020), Biogeosciences

In addition to journal articles, Wassmann has contributed to book literature, including the publication titled "Towards a Unifying Pan-Arctic Perspective of the Contemporary and Future Arctic Ocean" released by Frontiers Media in 2021.

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Wassmann's research career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Bodil A. Bluhm
  • Igor V. Polyakov
  • Kristina A. Brown
  • Eddy C. Carmack
  • Melissa Chierici

Paul Wassmann was recognized as a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Footprints of climate change in the Arctic marine ecosystem

    Paul F. Wassmann;Carlos M. Duarte;Susana Agustí;Mikael K. Sejr

  • Food webs and physical–biological coupling on pan-Arctic shelves: Unifying concepts and comprehensive perspectives ☆

    Eddy Carmack;Paul Wassmann

  • Food webs and carbon flux in the Barents Sea

    Paul Wassmann;Marit Reigstad;Tore Haug;Bert Rudels

  • Phaeocystis blooms and nutrient enrichment in the continental coastal zones of the North sea

    Christiane Lancelot;Gilles Billen;A. Sournia;T. Weisse

  • Future Arctic Ocean Seasonal Ice Zones and Implications for Pelagic-Benthic Coupling

    Paul Wassmann;Marit Reigstad

  • 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

  • Retention versus export food chains: processes controlling sinking loss from marine pelagic systems

    Paul Wassmann

  • Arctic marine ecosystems in an era of rapid climate change

    Paul Wassmann

  • Evaluating primary and secondary production in an Arctic Ocean void of summer sea ice: An experimental simulation approach

    D. Slagstad;I.H. Ellingsen;P. Wassmann;P. Wassmann

  • Mass sedimentation of Phaeocystis pouchetii in the Barents Sea

    P. Wassmann;M. Vernet;BG Mitchell;F. Rey

  • Variations in hydrography, nutrients and chlorophyll a in the marginal ice-zone and the central Barents Sea

    Marit Reigstad;Paul Wassmann;Christian Wexels Riser;Sigrid Øygarden

  • Nutrient cycling in the south east Levantine basin of the eastern Mediterranean: Results from a phosphorus starved system

    M.D. Krom;E.M.S. Woodward;B. Herut;N. Kress

  • Physical constrains and productivity in the future Arctic Ocean

    Dag Slagstad;Paul F. J. Wassmann;Ingrid Ellingsen

  • Spring Bloom Development in the Marginal Ice Zone and the Central Barents Sea

    Paul Wassmann;Tatjana Ratkova;Inger Andreassen;Maria Vernet

  • The contiguous domains of Arctic Ocean advection: Trails of life and death

    P. Wassmann;K.N. Kosobokova;D. Slagstad;K.F. Drinkwater

  • Modelling the ecosystem dynamics of the Barents Sea including the marginal ice zone: II. Carbon flux and interannual variability

    Paul Wassmann;Dag Slagstad;Christian Wexels Riser;Marit Reigstad

  • Relationship between primary and export production in the boreal coastal zone of the North Atlantic

    Paul Wassmann

  • Seasonal variation in vertical flux of biogenic matter in the marginal ice zone and the central Barents Sea

    Kalle Olli;Christian Wexels Riser;Paul Wassmann;Tatjana Ratkova

  • Abrupt climate change in the Arctic

    Carlos M. Duarte;Carlos M. Duarte;Timothy M. Lenton;Peter Wadhams;Paul Wassmann

  • Seasonal variation and spatial distribution of phyto- and protozooplankton in the central Barents Sea

    Tatjana N. Rat'kova;Paul Wassmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Marit Reigstad
Marit Reigstad University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Susana Agustí
Susana Agustí King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jesús M. Arrieta
Jesús M. Arrieta Spanish Institute of Oceanography
Cliff S. Law
Cliff S. Law National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Maria Vernet
Maria Vernet University of California, San Diego
Michael D. Krom
Michael D. Krom University of Haifa
Nurit Kress
Nurit Kress Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Eva-Maria Nöthig
Eva-Maria Nöthig Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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