Project title – Arctic Ocean Diversity Census of Marine Life (Cluster lead)

Project web site – www.arcodiv.org

Activity leader(s) (name, affiliation, email address) – Rolf Gradinger, Bodil Bluhm, Russ Hopcroft, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks AK 99775; Andrey Gebruk, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia

Project goals (1-2 sentences) – ArcOD’s goal is to inventory biodiversity in the Arctic sea ice, water column and sea floor from the shallow shelves to the deep basins using a three-level approach: compilation of existing data, taxonomic identification of existing samples, and new collections focusing on taxonomic and regional gaps.

Geographic focus – Pan-Arctic

Taxonomic focus – From microbes to vertebrates

Countries involved in activity – Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Poland, UK, Russia

Expedition dates and vessels – see entries of cluster participants; in addition: Prof. Lavrentev Aug/Sep 2008, Healy Mar/Apr 2008, BASC May 2008

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