CEOAS Professor Lorenzo Ciannelli and Ph.D. student Haley Carlton are part of a research team that is exploring Greenland's changing glacial fjord system. The five-year project (2021-2026) is part of the National Science Foundation funded program Navigating the New Arctic. This project includes four research cruises in Sermilik Fjord in Southeast Greenland and Melville Bay in Northwest Greenland. Seven institutions - Oregon State University, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Darmouth University, and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and the University of Oregon - are studying fjord systems dominated by marine-terminating glaciers, with different research groups focusing on everything from the physics of water movement to the anthropological component. The CEOAS research group is focused on the mid-trophic level, on fish larvae and zooplankton, where they are in the fjords and in what abundances, and these change depending on different water masses. This footage was taken by Alex Rivest. This video was produced and edited by Kim Kenny.
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