The Green Edge cruise: investigating the marginal ice zone processes during late spring and early summer to understand the fate of the Arctic phytoplankton bloom

Flavienne Bruyant (1) , Rémi Amiraux (1, 2) , Marie-Pier Amyot (1) , Philippe Archambault (1) , Lise Artigue (3) , Lucas Barbedo de Freitas , Guislain Bécu (1) , Simon Bélanger , Pascaline Bourgain , Annick Bricaud (4) , Etienne Brouard (1) , Camille Brunet (5) , Tonya Burgers , Danielle Caleb , Katrine Chalut , Hervé Claustre (4) , Marcel Babin (1) , Antoine Sciandra (4) , Véronique Cornet-Barthaux (5) , Pierre Coupel (5) , Marine Cusa , Fanny Cusset (1) , Laeticia Dadaglio (6) , Marty Davelaar , Gabrièle Deslongchamps (1) , Céline Dimier (4) , Julie Dinasquet (6) , Dany Dumont (3) , Brent Else , Igor Eulaers , Joannie Ferland (1) , Gabrielle Filteau (1) , Marie-Hélène Forget (1) , Jérome Fort (7) , Louis Fortier (1) , Martí Galí (1) , Morgane Gallinari , Svend-Erik Garbus , Nicole Garcia (5) , Catherine Gérikas Ribeiro (8) , Colline Gombault , Priscilla Gourvil (8, 9) , Clémence Goyens , Cindy Grant (1) , Pierre-Luc Grondin (1) , Pascal Guillot , Sandrine Hillion , Rachel Hussherr , Fabien Joux (6) , Hannah Joy-Warren , Gabriel Joyal (1) , David Kieber , Augustin Lafond (5) , José Lagunas (1) , Patrick Lajeunesse (1) , Catherine Lalande (1) , Jade Larivière (1) , Florence Le Gall (8) , Karine Leblanc (5) , Mathieu Leblanc (1) , Justine Legras , Keith Lévesque , Kate-M. Lewis , Edouard Leymarie (4) , Aude Leynaert , Thomas Linkowski , Martine Lizotte (1) , Adriana Lopes dos Santos , Claudie Marec (1, 10) , Dominique Marie (8) , Guillaume Massé (1) , Philippe Massicotte (1) , Atsushi Matsuoka (1) , Lisa A. Miller , Sharif Mirshak , Nathalie Morata , Brivaela Moriceau , Philippe-Israël Morin (1) , Simon Morisset , Anders Mosbech , Alfonso Mucci , Gabrielle Nadaï (1) , Christian Nozais , Ingrid Obernosterer (6) , Thimoté Paire (1) , Christos Panagiotopoulos (5) , Marie Parenteau (1) , Noémie Pelletier , Marc Picheral (4) , Bernard Quéguiner (5) , Patrick Raimbault (5) , Joséphine Ras (4) , Eric Rehm (1) , Llúcia Ribot Lacosta (1) , Jean-François Rontani (5) , Blanche Saint-Béat (1, 11) , Julie Sansoulet (1) , Noé Sardet , Catherine Schmechtig (12) , Richard Sempéré (5) , Caroline Sévigny , Jordan Toullec , Margot Tragin (8) , Jean-Éric Tremblay (1) , Annie-Pier Trottier (1) , Daniel Vaulot (8) , Anda Vladoiu (13, 14) , Lei Xue , Gustavo Yunda-Guarin (1)

1 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2 LEMAR - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR)
3 LEGOS - Laboratoire d'études en Géophysique et océanographie spatiales
4 LOV - Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche
5 MIO - Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie
6 LOMIC - Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne
7 LIENSs - LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés
8 SBR - Station biologique de Roscoff = Roscoff Marine Station
9 FR2424 - Fédération de recherche de Roscoff
10 IUEM - Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer
11 IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
12 UPCité - Université Paris Cité
13 APL-UW - Applied Physics Laboratory [Seattle]
14 PROTEO - Processus et interactions de fine échelle océanique

The Green Edge project was designed to investigate the onset, life, and fate of a phytoplankton spring bloom (PSB) in the Arctic Ocean. The lengthening of the ice-free period and the warming of seawater, amongst other factors, have induced major changes in Arctic Ocean biology over the last decades. Because the PSB is at the base of the Arctic Ocean food chain, it is crucial to understand how changes in the Arctic environment will affect it. Green Edge was a large multidisciplinary, collaborative project bringing researchers and technicians from 28 different institutions in seven countries together, aiming at understanding these changes and their impacts on the future. The fieldwork for the Green Edge project took place over two years (2015 and 2016) and was carried out from both an ice camp and a research vessel in Baffin Bay, in the Canadian Arctic. This paper describes the sampling strategy and the dataset obtained from the research cruise, which took place aboard the Canadian Coast Guard ship (CCGS) Amundsen in late spring and early summer 2016. The sampling strategy was designed around the repetitive, perpendicular crossing of the marginal ice zone (MIZ), using not only ship-based station discrete sampling but also high-resolution measurements from autonomous platforms (Gliders, BGC-Argo floats …) and under-way monitoring systems. The dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.17882/86417 (Bruyant et al., 2022).

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

Flavienne Bruyant, Rémi Amiraux, Marie-Pier Amyot, Philippe Archambault, Lise Artigue, et al.. The Green Edge cruise: investigating the marginal ice zone processes during late spring and early summer to understand the fate of the Arctic phytoplankton bloom. Earth System Science Data, 2022, 14, pp.4607-4642. ⟨10.5194/essd-14-4607-2022⟩. ⟨insu-03863335⟩