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<\/a>Dr. Snorre Flo successfully defended his PhD thesis on May 26, 2025 at UNIS in Longyearbyen. The title of his thesis was: \u201cOn the appetites of small copepods and nematodes in the Arctic Barents Sea and Nansen Basin: In situ trophic interactions revealed by brute force prey metabarcoding\u201d, which can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His supervisory team has been: Associate professor Anna Vader (UNIS) and Professors Camilla Svensen, Bodil A. Bluhm and Kim Pr\u00e6bel (all UiT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Flo\u2019s thesis consists of three papers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paper I: Flo, S., Vader, A. & Pr\u00e6bel, K. (2024). Brute force prey metabarcoding to explore the diets of small invertebrates. Ecology and Evolution, 14<\/em>(5), e11369. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ece3.11369<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Paper II: Flo, S., Svensen, C., Pr\u00e6bel, K., Bluhm, B.A. & Vader, A. (2024). Dietary plasticity in small Arctic copepods as revealed with prey metabarcoding. Journal of Plankton Research, 46<\/em>(5), 514. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/plankt\/fbae042<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Paper III: Flo, S., Bluhm, B.A., Svensen, C., Pr\u00e6bel, K. & Vader, A. Eukaryote food acquisition in Arctic marine nematodes across seasons and shelf-to-basin gradients. (Manuscript).<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Cheshtaa Chitkara successfully defended her PhD thesis on May 28, 2025 at UNIS in Longyearbyen. The title of her thesis was: \u201cArctic marine microbial eukaryotes \u2013 Spatiotemporal drivers of community structure and ecological impacts of Atlantification\u201d, which can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her supervisors have been Associate Professor Anna Vader (UNIS) and Professor Tove M. Gabrielsen (UiA\/UNIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Chitkara\u2019s thesis consists of three papers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paper I: Chitkara, C., Juul-Pedersen, T., Krawczyk, D., S\u00f8reide, J., Vader, A., Gradinger, R. R., HS Winding, M. & Vonnahme, T. R. (2024). Seasonality in phytoplankton communities and production in three Arctic fjords across a climate gradient. Progress in Oceanography<\/em>, 227, 103317. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.pocean.2024.103317<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Paper II: Chitkara, C., Gabrielsen, T.M., Vonnahme, T., Skogseth, R., Krabber\u00f8d, A. K., Petelenz, E. A., Larsen, A., Vader, A. ( Unpublished manuscript). Tracking the effects of Atlantification on microbial eukaryotes in an Arctic marine time series, IsA<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paper III: Chitkara, C., Gabrielsen T. M., Skogseth, R., Desc\u00f4teaux, R. & Vader A. (Unpublished manuscript). Seasonality of planktonic microbial eukaryotic communities in Arctic versus Atlantic Spitsbergen fjords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Antonia Kl\u00f6cker has successfully defended her PhD thesis on June 2, 2025 at UiO in Oslo. The title of her thesis was: \u201cOn the move: The movement ecology of sharks in high-latitude waters and Beyond\u201d, which can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her supervisory team has been: Researcher Claudia Junge (IMR), Associate Professor \u00d8ystein Langangen (UiO), Researcher Mikko Vihtakari (IMR) and Principal Researcher Nuno Queiroz (University of Porto).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Kl\u00f6cker\u2019s thesis consists of four papers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paper I: Kl\u00f6cker et al. Seasonal habitat use and diel vertical migration in female spurdog in Nordic waters. Movement Ecology<\/em>, 2024, 12(1):62. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s40462-024-00498-2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Paper II: Kl\u00f6cker, C. A., Schlindwein, A., Arostegui, M. C., Bruvold, I. M., Wernstr\u00f6m, J. V., Martin-Armas, M., Sims, D. W., Straube, N., Altenburger, A., & Junge, C. (2025). Giants in the cold: Morphological evidence for vascular heat retention in the viscera but not the skeletal muscle of the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus<\/em>). Journal of Fish Biology<\/em>, 1\u201320. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jfb.70052<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/a>