Research > Minigrants I

MiniGrant List: 2006-2007

• Speciation by Deep-sea Arctic Echinoderms
• Benthic Boundary Layer Zooplankton
• Mesozooplankton in Franklin Bay
• Archiving of Specimens, Notes and Photographs from NARL
• Polychaetes and Bivalves of the East Siberian Sea
• Epibenthos in Nearshore Boulder Communities
• Western Arctic Marine Fish Distribution
• Compilation of data sets from Kiel University
• Amphipoda from the Greenlandic Shelf
• Benthic Harpacticoid Copepods from Kongsfjorden
• Zooplankton of the Barents Sea and Nearby Basins
• Phytoplankton and ice-algae of the White & Barents Seas, and Nearby Basins
• Macrophytes from Hornsund Fjord

Title: Polychaetes and bivalves of the East Siberian Sea

Principal Investigators Sergey Gagaev Andrey Voronkov Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Russia

Project goals
Identification of polychaetes and bivalves from 60 grab and 112 trawl samples from the poorly studied East Siberian Sea.

Results (ongoing)
60 van Veen grab samples, 66 mini trawl samples and 46 boat trawl samples were taken during a 2004 expedition to the East Siberian Sea and are currently being sorted and identified.