The Tara Polar Station has been designed by the teams of the Tara Ocean Foundation to accelerate research in the Arctic ocean, sentinel of the climate. To understand the biology of this unique Arctic ecosystem, a complete set of instruments are deployed to study the physicochemical interactions between the atmosphere, snow, sea ice and the underlying Ocean over the next 20 years, until 2045. Researcher from over 12 countries and 30 institutes will coordinate their research on the atmosphere, sea ice, pelagic ecosystems, biogeochemistry, oceanography, omics, and pollution.
Within the pelagic ecosystems group, the SEDNA project aims to identify and quantify the links between seasonal and spatial changes in physical ocean conditions and the pelagic (i.e. water column) ecosystem of the Central Arctic Ocean. Within this consortium, we are responsible of the ecoacoustics tasks and will assess the effects of Atlantification on the dynamics of Arctic soundscapes.
