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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: Phytoplankton and ice algae species from the White Sea, Barents Sea, Amundsen Basin & Nansen Basin

Principal Investigators Tatjana Ratkova Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Moscow, Russia Paul Wassmann UNorwegian College of Fishery Science, Univ. Tromsø, Norway

Project goals
Over the last 15 years extensive sampling and analysis of phytoplankton and ice algae has been carried out in the White Sea, Barents Sea and Amundsen and Nansen Basins by the PIs and colleagues. There are more then 1000 samples, analyzed down to the nearest taxon. There are some more samples that have not been analyzed as yet. We suggest to make these data available to the ArcOD database and fill gaps by analyzing unsorted samples.

Results
Data were compiled and formatted to fit the ArcOD / OBIS schemas. Metadata were generated for each data set. Unidentified samples were identified. The data are comprised of >20,000 records.