The team

Mathieu Ardyna is a biological oceanographer interested in understanding phytoplankton dynamics in polar environments. His main research focuses are on how environmental drivers and changes are altering phytoplankton phenology, productivity and structure in polar waters.

Marcel Babin is a senior biological oceanographer and an expert in marine optics and microalgal photophysiology. His research includes radiative transfer simulations, lab and field work on microalgal photosynthesis and growth, and experimental and theoretical studies on seawater optical properties.

My project focuses on the distribution of trace metals (Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb) in marine waters throughout the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Baffin Bay.

My PhD focuses on understanding water mass dynamics and their influence on macro-nutrients and phytoplankton distribution in Nares Strait.

My project focuses on phytoplankton mixotrophy. More specifically, on the two main pathways of mixotrophy in phytoplankton: osmotrophy and phagotrophy.

My PhD project aims to better understand how climate change influences the biodiversity and functioning of benthic communities, essential for nutrient recycling and carbon remineralization.

My project focuses on the phytoplankton community dynamics in the Arctic Ocean.

I am working on the functional traits of Arctic copepods using imaging data and an individual-based model to better understand what drives the emergence of these traits in this remote ecosystem and to better anticipate future changes and potential impacts on other individuals.

My project aims to combine high-resolution bathymetry and satellite imagery with sediment cores taken near Mittie and Cape Norton Shaw glaciers to provide a better understanding of the evolution of marine-terminating glaciers in the Canadian Arctic in the face of future climate change.

I work on the geomorphological and sedimentary signatures of tidewater glaciers to reconstruct glacier history and to identify drivers of glacier behaviour.

The goal of my research is to better understand how the new massive southward Arctic outflow of fresh meltwater that flows down within Baffin Bay impacts the benthic ecosystems functioning and more specifically their carbon absorption capacity.

My work focuses on the relationship between prokaryotes, methylmercury and dissolved organic matter.

My PhD project focuses on the interplay between phytoplankton, zooplankton and particles in the biological carbon pump in the Arctic Ocean.

My research project aims to understand variation in the dynamics of benthic food webs, using starfish as top predators, along a latitudinal gradient from the High Arctic to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

I am studying mechanical properties of sea ice floes as well as their interaction with swell in order to improve Arctic climate models.

The aim of my PhD project is to contribute to a better understanding of cryosphere and ecosystem changes in sensitive areas of the Arctic region during the Holocene epoch.

My work focuses on studying changes in salinity in regions of deep-water formations by documenting it using analysis of the 18O/16O and 2H/H isotope ratios of seawater.

My research investigates how climate-induced changes in the Arctic cryosphere, particularly sea ice decline, influence the biogeochemical cycling of mercury. I focus on the role of sea ice in regulating ocean-atmosphere exchanges of mercury.

My research work is focused on the relationship between organic matter coming from different sources and natural bacterial communities, to better understand how they both interact and influence each other, as well as its consequences for the global carbon cycle.

I am studying trace metals to understand their distributions throughout fjords along Ellesmere Island and Greenland.

My project focuses on the eco-physiological mechanisms of acclimation to prolonged periods of dusk in polar phytoplankton and their potentials impact on the phytoplankton communities.

My work focuses on the microstructure of sea ice and its macro- and micro-scale impact on radiative transfer.

My project focuses on studying two aspects of the carbon cycle: ocean acidification in the water column ; origin and degradation pathways of carbon sequestered in the sediments, using chemical and isotopic measurements.

My project focuses on modelling the impact of different public policy scenarios on plastic and microplastic pollution.

My project focus on the connectivity of zooplankton communities at the front between Arctic and subarctic waters in the Labrador Sea, in the vicinity of a future Nunatsiavut marine protected area. I'm also interested in the biodiversity, distribution and limits of distribution of zooplankton at very high latitudes in relation to ice dynamics.