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Mar Fernández-Méndez
Researcher at Norwegian Polar Institute
Publications - 32
Citations - 1538
Mar Fernández-Méndez is an academic researcher from Norwegian Polar Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sea ice & Arctic. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 25 publications receiving 1245 citations. Previous affiliations of Mar Fernández-Méndez include Max Planck Society & Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
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Export of Algal Biomass from the Melting Arctic Sea Ice
Antje Boetius,Sebastian Albrecht,Karel Bakker,Christina Bienhold,Janine Felden,Mar Fernández-Méndez,Stefan Hendricks,Christian Katlein,Catherine Lalande,Thomas Krumpen,Marcel Nicolaus,Ilka Peeken,Benjamin Rabe,Antonina Rogacheva,Elena Rybakova,Raquel Somavilla,Frank Wenzhöfer +16 more
TL;DR: Large-scale algal aggregates of the diatom Melosira arctica were observed hanging beneath multiyear and seasonal ice across a wide range of latitudes and a widespread deposition of ice algal biomass of on average 9 grams of carbon per square meter to the deep-sea floor of the central Arctic basins.
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Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ice
Philipp Assmy,Mar Fernández-Méndez,Pedro Duarte,Amelie Meyer,Achim Randelhoff,Achim Randelhoff,Christopher John Mundy,Lasse Mork Olsen,Hanna M. Kauko,Allison Bailey,Melissa Chierici,Lana Cohen,Anthony P. Doulgeris,Jens K. Ehn,Agneta Fransson,Sebastian Gerland,Haakon Hop,Haakon Hop,Stephen R. Hudson,Nick Hughes,Polona Itkin,Geir Johnsen,Geir Johnsen,J. King,Boris P. Koch,Zoé Koenig,Slawomir Kwasniewski,Samuel R. Laney,Marcel Nicolaus,Alexey Pavlov,Chris Polashenski,Christine Provost,Anja Rösel,Marthe Sandbu,Gunnar Spreen,Gunnar Spreen,Lars Henrik Smedsrud,Lars Henrik Smedsrud,Arild Sundfjord,Torbjørn Taskjelle,Agnieszka Tatarek,Józef Wiktor,Penelope Mae Wagner,Anette Wold,Harald Steen,Mats A. Granskog +45 more
TL;DR: Phytoplankton blooms beneath snow-covered ice might become more common and widespread in the future Arctic Ocean with frequent lead formation due to thinner and more dynamic sea ice despite projected increases in high-Arctic snowfall.
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Photosynthetic production in the central Arctic Ocean during the record sea-ice minimum in 2012
Mar Fernández-Méndez,Christian Katlein,Benjamin Rabe,Marcel Nicolaus,Ilka Peeken,Karel Bakker,Hauke Flores,Antje Boetius +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present results from the central Arctic Ocean collected during summer 2012, when sea-ice extent reached its lowest ever recorded since the onset of satellite observations, and show that ice algae can contribute up to 60% to primary production in the Central Arctic Ocean at the end of the productive season.
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Floating ice-algal aggregates below melting arctic sea ice.
Philipp Assmy,Jens K. Ehn,Mar Fernández-Méndez,Mar Fernández-Méndez,Haakon Hop,Christian Katlein,Arild Sundfjord,Katrin Bluhm,Malin Daase,Anja Engel,Agneta Fransson,Mats A. Granskog,Stephen R. Hudson,Svein Kristiansen,Marcel Nicolaus,Ilka Peeken,Ilka Peeken,Angelika H. H. Renner,Gunnar Spreen,Agnieszka Tatarek,Józef Wiktor +20 more
TL;DR: This paper observed floating algal aggregates in the melt-water layer below and between melting ice floes of first-year pack ice during two consecutive cruises to the Eastern Central Arctic in late summer 2012.
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An assessment of phytoplankton primary productivity in the Arctic Ocean from satellite ocean color/in situ chlorophyll‐a based models
Younjoo Lee,Patricia A. Matrai,Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs,Vincent S. Saba,David Antoine,Mathieu Ardyna,Ichio Asanuma,Marcel Babin,Simon Bélanger,Maxime Benoît‐Gagné,Emmanuel Devred,Mar Fernández-Méndez,Bernard Gentili,Toru Hirawake,Sung-Ho Kang,Takahiko Kameda,Christian Katlein,Sang Heon Lee,Zhongping Lee,Frédéric Mélin,Michele Scardi,Timothy J Smyth,Shilin Tang,Kevin R. Turpie,Kirk Waters,Toby K. Westberry +25 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated 32 net primary productivity (NPP) models by assessing skills to reproduce inte-grated NPP in the Arctic Ocean and found that most of the models were not able to fully reproduce the variability of in situ NPP, whereas some of them exhibited almost no bias.