{"id":804,"date":"2017-08-04T15:42:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/?p=804"},"modified":"2017-08-04T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:48:12","slug":"more-new-arctos-phds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"More new ARCTOS PhDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

2017 will be a record year for ARCTOS in terms of PhD defenses with so far nine PhD defenses and more to come. In June, Ireen Vieweg and Ann Eileen Lennert successfully defended their theses (read more here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Ireen Vieweg defense (photo: Ulrike Grote)<\/p><\/div>\n

On July 28th, Marc Silberberger defended his thesis entitled ‘Spatial scales of benthic ecosystem in the sub-Arctic Lofoten-Vester\u00e5len region’ at Nord University in Bod\u00f8. Congratulations to all three and all the best for the future!<\/p>\n

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Marc Silberberger with supervisors Paul Renaud (left) and Henning Reiss (right)<\/p><\/div>\n

About Marc’s thesis:<\/p>\n

The marine ecosystem of the sub-Arctic Lofoten-Vester\u00e5len region is commercially and ecologically extremely valuable, due to its strong implications for the Norwegian and Barents Sea. As part of the marine ecosystem, seafloor (benthic) habitats play an important role for a variety of ecosystem services, including food production, carbon sequestration, or nutrient cycling.<\/p>\n

By studying spatial scales of benthic community structure, larval dispersal, and food-web structure, this dissertation contributes knowledge that is important to secure a sustainable marine spatial management of the Lofoten-Vester\u00e5len region. Collectively, epifauna and infauna reflect different environmental drivers of spatial variability.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, benthic ecosystem functioning in the Lofoten-Vester\u00e5len region is largely tied to distinct warm- and cold-water benthic communities associated with Atlantic and Arctic water masses, respectively.<\/p>\n

In addition, retention of larval stages on the continental shelf maintains the separation of these communities. A considerable habitat connectivity and a preserved food-web structure that supports different top predator fish species, characterize the local ecosystem on the continental shelf.<\/p>\n

The presented work illustrates the multiscale nature of benthic ecosystems and identifies environmental variables that can be used to assess benthic habitats and their resilience in areas with similar environmental settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2017 will be a record year for ARCTOS in terms of PhD defenses with so far nine PhD defenses and more to come. In June, Ireen Vieweg and Ann Eileen Lennert successfully defended their theses (read more here). On July 28th, Marc Silberberger defended his thesis entitled ‘Spatial scales of benthic ecosystem in the sub-Arctic Lofoten-Vester\u00e5len region’ at Nord University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arctos.uit.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Steinsfjorden_i_Lofoten.jpg?fit=3456%2C2304&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7h8E1-cY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1755,"url":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/?p=1755","url_meta":{"origin":804,"position":0},"title":"Gordon Research Conference 2025","author":"Anna Miettinen","date":"17 March 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Polar Marine Science took place in Tuscany, Italy, 9.-14.03.2025. This year' s topic was Sea Ice as a Nexus in Polar Seas Between the Ocean and the Atmosphere. The ARCTOS network was contributing strongly to the meeting with an invited oral presentation by Karley\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/?cat=10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arctos.uit.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GRC_25_pic_featured.png?fit=1200%2C408&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arctos.uit.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GRC_25_pic_featured.png?fit=1200%2C408&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arctos.uit.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GRC_25_pic_featured.png?fit=1200%2C408&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arctos.uit.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GRC_25_pic_featured.png?fit=1200%2C408&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arctos.uit.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GRC_25_pic_featured.png?fit=1200%2C408&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}