Ingrid Ellingsen and Dag Slagstad from SINTEF visited Lancaster on Thursday as part of the collaboration within the EU-funded project.
The SINTEF team specialise in modelling the ecology of the Arctic ocean under climate change scenarios, with distinct behaviours seen compared with the rest of the world’s oceans.
The response of Arctic primary production to warming climate could have implications for the long-term viability of fisheries and aquaculture in the Arctic region, and may also affect the net global carbon sink from the atmosphere to the ocean.
The team at Pentland centre, led by Gail Whiteman and Dmitry Yumashev, are looking to use these findings to explore potential regional, as well as global, economic impacts of the biological changes in the Arctic ocean under different climate change scenarios.