BIOPUMP - The biological pump in the Nordic seas: Copepods and appendicularians as producers and consumers of sinking particles

BIOPUMP is a NordForsk – financed research network investigating the vertical flux, its production and consumption, and how it is affected by the climate change. The main activities of the network are annual research workshops concentrating on diverse aspects of vertical flux, such as the role of different zooplankton groups in producing and degrading of sinking particles, and how will the changing temperature and CO2 concentrations of the ocean influence the dynamics of these groups.

BIOPUMP is also involved in organising a Nordic PhD course on vertical flux and factors influencing it.

BIOPUMP has participants from 9 universities / institutes in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Greenland, and is co-ordinated by the Section of Ocean Ecology and Climate at DTU Aqua. 

For more details of the activities, participants or the PhD course, please, click on the links.