NOC scientists to celebrate Greenland Science Week

A team of National Oceanography Centre scientists will be taking their place at Greenland Science Week in Nuuk on the 12th and 13th November.
 

Elena Garcia-Martin, Christine Gommenginger and David McCann will be presenting their research around Greenland and the Arctic and engage with local stakeholders and community representatives in Greenland.
 

Elena Garcia-Martin will present the preliminary results from a two-week cruise in Greenland fjords as part of her Arctic Carbon project, a philanthropic Initiative funded by Augmentum. 

During this cruise, Elena and Nathan Hubot visited three different fjords - two fjords influenced by marine-terminating glaciers and one fjord influenced by land-terminating glaciers to study the influence of the different glaciers on the dissolved organic carbon and plankton composition. 

The preliminary results indicate different physicochemical properties (water masses and composition of organic carbon), and different plankton communities. 

Professor Christine Gommenginger and David McCann will showcase their work in the AEROSTATS project, funded by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA).
 

Partnering with technologists and scientists from Radarmetrics, Noveltis and Pixalytics Ltd, the AEROSTATS team is exploring new approaches to low-cost low-carbon sustainable ocean observing. Building on advanced autonomous airborne platforms and innovative remote sensing instruments, the goal is to help build an early warning system for climate tipping points in the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre. 

In addition, the team will be highlighting NOC’s current involvement and contributions to Arctic research, including its focus on supporting the UK’s vision for Arctic science in the face of accelerating environmental change. 

It forms part of NOC’s commitment to collaboration and to co-developing innovative, ethical research on the critical issues facing the Arctic. 

The conference, held in Nuuk as part of Greenland Science Week, aims to connect scientific knowledge with societal needs by bringing together Arctic experts and stakeholders across many countries and disciplines.