What Starts Up, Must Go Down: Productivity in the Arctic Ocean with Dr. Clara Hoppe

In this specific lesson, Dr. Clara Hoppe sheds light on the small but mighty phytoplankton! You'll learn about MOSAiC's special interest in primary production, carbon export, and groundbreaking data scientists expect to glean from the expedition.

This video is part of a collection called “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic,” offered through the online course platform Coursera, about the extraordinary MOSAiC Arctic research mission that has frozen an icebreaker into the Arctic Ocean, where it will drift for 13 months (mosaic-expedition.org).

March 17, 2020

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Science Content Video 

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Educators

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Program Reference

Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)

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About the Presenter

Clara Hoppe is a phytoplankton ecophysiologist with focus on Arctic ice-covered and coastal environments. She is working on MOSAiC results, for her Kongsfjorden spring bloom monitoring data (since 20214) as well as experimental approaches towards process understanding. Her goal is to integrate approaches from classical ecology and biological oceanography into this field of research.

Additional Resources

Visit this page to access the “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic” Coursera.

In this course, you’ll hear directly from more than three dozen MOSAiC scientists and Arctic experts as they summarize the core of their research, what types of data they collect during MOSAiC on the ice, under the sea, and in the air and describe why this expedition is so key for increasing our understanding of the Arctic and global climate systems.