Antarctic landfast sea ice (fast ice) is stationary sea ice that is attached to the coast,
grounded icebergs, ice shelves, or other protrusions on the continental shelf. Fast ice forms …

Around Antartica the annual five-fold growth and decay of sea ice is the most prominent
physical process and has a profound impact on marine life there. In winter the pack ice …

The extensive pack and fast ice that forms in both Antarctic and Arctic regions provides a
unique habitat for polar microbial assemblages (reviewed by Mock & Thomas, 2005). Algal …

Sea ice in the Arctic (16 million km2) and Antarctic (19 million km2) comprises one of the
largest ecosystems on Earth. Algal communities flourish within micro‐habitats that are …

The study of the chemistry of the oceans has been at the forefront of oceanographic
endeavours ever since the first expeditions took their first water samples. During the past 50 …

Basal melt of ice shelves is not only an important part of Antarctica's ice sheet mass budget,
but it is also the origin of platelet ice, one of the most distinctive types of sea ice. In many …

This study examines the relationships linking methanesulfonic acid (MSA, arising from the
atmospheric oxidation of the biogenic dimethylsulfide, DMS) in atmospheric aerosol, satellite …

Fast ice and underlying water of the northern Baltic Sea were sampled at 1 wk intervals
during winter 2000 in a coastal location in SW Finland. To investigate seasonal succession …

Background Plankton is the essential ecological category that occupies the lower levels of
aquatic trophic networks, representing a good indicator of environmental change. However …

Global climate change is having profound impacts on polar ice with changes in the duration
and extent of both land‐fast ice and drift ice, which is part of the polar ice pack. Sea ice is a …