The BREATHE project brings together researchers from Norway, Denmark and Canada to study sea ice microbiology and biogeochemistry.

 

It will quantify the effective metabolism of sea ice; comprehensively summarizing how the ice BREATHEs, and thereafter, its dynamic role in O2 and carbon cycling within changing marine ecosystems. Through in situ, laboratory and model-based approaches the project will:​

• ​Characterize turbulence-driven nutrient supply for ice algal growth

• Define the respiratory costs for algae and bacteria living in sea ice 

• Improve the accuracy of ice algal production measurements in a time

        of rapid environmental change

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