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A recently paper published in PNAS,  members of the CEES Marine Group explore potential climate effects on Calanus finmarchicus, a key zooplankton species in the North Atlantic. The paper shows how the combination of shallow mixed-layer-depth and increased wind apparently increases chlorophyll biomass in spring, and in turn C. finmarchicus biomass in summer. These findings strongly suggest bottom-up effects of food availability on zooplankton, and highlight the need to consider climate effects “beyond temperature” when projecting zooplankton dynamics under climate change.

MARmaED Early Stage Researcher from Italy has started working at the Institute of Hydrobiology and Fisheries at the University of Hamburg on 1 February 2016.

MARmaED Early Stage Researcher from Sweden has started working at the Theoretical Ecology Group at the University of Bergen on 1st February 2016

Marine phytoplankton contribute nearly 50% to global primary production, support zooplankton production and play a vital role in regulating Carbon sequestration. Phytoplankton productivity fluctuations are caused by various direct and indirect effects of temperature, the balance of which show large-scale geographical patterns. 

MARmaED Early Stage Researcher from Turkey will start working at Department of Economics and Management of the University of Helsinki in Finland

MARmaED Early Stage Researcher from Germany will start at the Theoretical Ecology Group at the University of Bergen the 1st February 2016.

MARmaED Early Stage Researcher from Taiwan started working at Department of Economics and Management of the University of Helsinki in Finland

MARmaED was present in Brussels for the Coordinator information day.

Friday 11 December 2015, Kristina Øie Kvile has defended her PhD about the climate effects on Calanus finmarchicus dynamics with success. 

MARmaED Early Stage Researcher from The Netherlands started working at the National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark in November

MARmaED new Early Stage Researcher from Germany will work on trophic interactions at the functional level based at The Centre of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis of the University of Oslo

Penguins are highly visible species for the public. Their life has been portrayed in many movies. Unfortunately they are also species impacted by climate change. In a recent publication a team led by Charles Bost used long-term data to relate the large-scale climatic anomalies in the Southern Hemisphere to the foraging behaviour and population dynamics of the king penguin.

Interdisciplinarity is a central focus for many funding agencies. The argument for this is that only with scientists working together that some of the major questions of today could be answered. In a recent paper, a collection of students and post-doc from the NorMER network explored the difference of perception of scientists in function of their discipline: social science or natural science.

A PhD Research Fellowship in Population Genomics/genetics is available at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences.

1 PhD position in Marine Science is open at The Centre for Ocean Life, The National Institute for Aquatic Resources, the Technical University of Denmark.

Interdisciplinarity is often presented as the solution to answer some of the major questions of today. Master student Djuna Buizer reflected on the subject in a post.

The 1st of October partners of MARmaED met in Stockholm for the first meeting of the project

Two PhD (early-stage researcher) fellowships in Marine Science available at Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

The toxicity resulting from exposure to oil droplets in marine fish embryos and larvae is still subject for debate while at the same time worldwide energy demands have resulted in increased hydrocarbon extraction activity. 

2 PhD positions are open in The Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group (ENR) at the Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR). The preferred starting date is 15 January, 2016.

1 PhD position in Climatology is open at The Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques in Toulouse within the Climate Research Group of Météo-France.

2 PhD positions are open in the Theoretical Ecology Group at the University of Bergen. The position commences on 1 January 2016

1 PhD position in Ecology is open at The Centre of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis of the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Opening the sea areas around Lofoten and Vesterålen islands for petroleum activities is a highly debated topic. One of the main concerns has been to what extent an accidental oil-spill may affect the ecologically and economically important species of fish that spawn in the area. We have investigate how an increased mortality event at the egg and larval stage in cod may affect the population.

2 PhD positions are open in the group of Prof Lindroos at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Helsinki . The positions commences on 1 January 2016