Major EU consortium project funded

Our research in the polar regions is set to be bolstered further through our partnership in a major EU HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions grant which will run over the next 4 years. Our successful proposal, entitled ‘Polar Ocean Mitigation Potential (POMP)’, will advance the scientific understanding of how climate change impacts biodiversity and carbon sequestration potential in emerging and rapidly changing polar marine ecosystems. Partners include numerous top polar researchers based in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Greenland, France, the UK, and Canada. The project, which is coordinated by our close collaborator, Prof. Mikael Sejr (Aarhus University), is expected to start in early 2024.

Our roles in the project include developing new benthic primary production models for Arctic and Antarctic regions and estimating their CO2 uptake and sequestration capabilities on pan-Arctic and pan-Antarctic scales. We will be recruiting a PhD student or Postdoc in the first half of 2024. Please get in touch if you think this might be something for you.

Eddy covariance instruments ready for deployment in Young Sound, NE Greenland, August 2022. Photo (C) Karl Attard