DTU AQUA National Institute of Aquatic Resources
Section for Oceans and Arctic
Henrik Dams Allé
Building 202, room 4137
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
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New publication estimates that a significant amount of carbon (13 to 35 GtC) is sequestered in the deep oceans by seasonally migrating copepods.
BlueOcean, led by DTU Aqua, is one of four projects receiving funding from The Marine Research Programme of the North Atlantic Ocean and involving DTU Aqua. Beginning of March, researchers came to Tórshavn from Greenland, The Fareo Islands and Denmark to kick off the new marine co-research projects.
A new Ocean Life paper shows that overwintering of the copepod Calanus hyperboreus contributes significantly to the sequestration of carbon. We propose a general method, based on metabolic theory, as to how a global inventory can be built for observation-poor species in other parts of the world’s oceans.
Senior Research Scientist Sigrún Jónasdóttir will be defending her doctoral thesis on copepods at DTU—Technical University of Denmark. Not only do copepods ensure that we can get vital omega-3 fatty acids, they also remove large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Three DTU researchers will defend their doctoral theses this autumn.
Zooplankton no bigger than grains of rice play a much larger role in the transport and storage of CO2 in the ocean than previously thought