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Rolf Gradinger 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 notable work in several key subfields including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research topics cover a range of areas within polar and marine science, including:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Climate change and permafrost

They have contributed to multiple scientific publications, frequently publishing in these venues:

  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Polar Biology

Recent scholarly articles authored or co-authored by Rolf Gradinger include:

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Atmosphere, 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice, 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Physical oceanography, 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Arctic Report Card 2020: The MOSAiC Expedition: A Year Drifting with the Arctic Sea Ice, 2020, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - NOAA Central Library
  • Changes in Sea-Ice Protist Diversity With Declining Sea Ice in the Arctic Ocean From the 1980s to 2010s, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

In addition to journal articles, Rolf Gradinger has contributed to book publications such as Arctic Sea Ice Ecology published by Springer Nature (Netherlands) in 2020.

The scientist often collaborates with a set of frequent co-authors including:

  • Bodil A. Bluhm
  • Philipp Assmy
  • Mats A. Granskog
  • Lars Chresten Lund-Hansen
  • Dorte Haubjerg Søgaard

Best Publications

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition—Atmosphere

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  • Regional variability in food availability for Arctic marine mammals.

    Bodil A. Bluhm;Rolf Gradinger

  • Arctic spring awakening – Steering principles behind the phenology of vernal ice algal blooms

    E. Leu;C.J. Mundy;P. Assmy;K. Campbell

  • Sea-ice algae: Major contributors to primary production and algal biomass in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas during May/June 2002

    Rolf Gradinger

  • The pan-Arctic biodiversity of marine pelagic and sea-ice unicellular eukaryotes: a first-attempt assessment

    Michel Poulin;Niels Daugbjerg;Rolf Gradinger;Ludmila Ilyash

  • 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

  • Implications of brine channel geometry and surface area for the interaction of sympagic organisms in Arctic sea ice

    C Krembs;R Gradinger;M Spindler

  • Biological Response to Recent Pacific Arctic Sea Ice Retreats

    Jacqueline M. Grebmeier;Sue E. Moore;James E. Overland;Karen E. Frey

  • 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

  • Sediment transport by sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas: Increasing importance due to changing ice conditions?

    H. Eicken;R. Gradinger;A. Gaylord;A. Mahoney

  • Abundance, biomass and composition of the sea ice biota of the Greenland Sea pack ice

    R. Gradinger;C. Friedrich;M. Spindler

  • Organism incorporation into newly forming Arctic sea ice in the Greenland Sea

    R. Gradinger;J. Ikävalko

  • Sea ice: A cast technique to examine and analyze brine pockets and channel structure

    Jiirgen Weissenberger;Gerhard Dieckmann;Rolf Gradinger;Michael Spindler

  • Chytrids dominate arctic marine fungal communities.

    B. T. Hassett;R. Gradinger

  • Vertical fine structure of the biomass and composition of algal communities in Arctic pack ice

    R. Gradinger

  • Plankton distribution and the impact of copepod grazing on primary production in Fram Strait, Greenland Sea

    Hans-Jürgen Hirche;M. E. M. Baumann;Gerhard Kattner;R. Gradinger

  • Determination of Arctic ice algal production with a new in situ incubation technique

    Thomas Mock;Rolf Gradinger

  • Standing stocks, production, and respiration of phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria in the western Arctic Ocean

    David L. Kirchman;Victoria Hill;Matthew T. Cottrell;Rolf Gradinger

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

    Bodil Bluhm;Andrey Gebruk;Rolf Gradinger;Russell Hopcroft

  • Integrated abundance and biomass of sympagic meiofauna in Arctic and Antarctic pack ice

    R. Gradinger

  • Occurrence of an algal bloom under Arctic pack ice

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  • Arctic Report Card 2020: The MOSAiC Expedition: A Year Drifting with the Arctic Sea Ice

    Matthew D. Shupe;M. Rex;K. Dethloff;E. Damm

  • The Biology of Polar Regions

    D.N. Thomas;G.E. Fogg;P. Convey;C.H. Fritsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Bodil A. Bluhm
Bodil A. Bluhm University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Katrin Iken
Katrin Iken University of Alaska Fairbanks
David N. Thomas
David N. Thomas University of Helsinki
Peter Convey
Peter Convey British Antarctic Survey
Johanna Laybourn-Parry
Johanna Laybourn-Parry University of Bristol
Klaus M Meiners
Klaus M Meiners Australian Antarctic Division
Russell R. Hopcroft
Russell R. Hopcroft University of Alaska Fairbanks
David L. Kirchman
David L. Kirchman University of Delaware
Brian K. Sorrell
Brian K. Sorrell Aarhus University
Hajo Eicken
Hajo Eicken Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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