The researchers Eva Doting (Postdoc at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research Tromsø, Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania), and Anne Kellerman (Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Scholar at the Florida State University) recently completed a High Arctic field campaign in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard and the NERC Arctic Research Station, tracking how meltwater from retreating glaciers carries carbon and nutrients from ice to fjord.

As part of the POLARIN funded project SCOOP (Sources and Cycling Of Organic matter along glacial-proglacial-fjord flow Paths), they sampled supraglacial streams, proglacial rivers, and fjord waters around Austre Brøggerbreen and Midtre Lovénbreen, capturing how newly exposed soils and melting ice are reshaping the flow of life-supporting elements into the Arctic Ocean.

Back in the lab, the team began analyzing how microbes break down this glacier-derived organic matter and nitrogen, helping reveal how Arctic fjord ecosystems may change as glaciers continue to retreat.

Step into the Arctic with Eva and Anne to discover how ice, soil, and sea are linked by climate change.

SCOOP was funded by POLARIN’s first call for Transnational Access to Research Infrastructures.