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Field Work

AMBON uses an end-to-end approach to provide new biodiversity data from microbes to whales in the Chukchi Sea using field collections.  The AMBON team of scientists conducted two sampling seasons aboard the vessel R/V Norseman 2. The research team’s cruise journals can be read here for the 2015 cruise and the 2017 cruise.

AMBON Study Area

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A team of multi-disciplinary scientists are monitoring marine biodiversity in the U.S Arctic waters of the  Chukchi Sea. The  study stations (red circles) are shown together with the main water mass flow (arrows).

Arctic Ecosystem

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The Arctic ecosystem has 3 main ecosystem realms: the sea ice provides habitat for small organisms and supports larger megafauna; the pelagic system includes both important primary producers and grazers; and the well-developed benthic system helps drive a complex food web.

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