The 3.3 million km2 marine ecosystem around the North Pole, defined as Central Arctic Ocean (CAO), is a blind spot on map of world’s fish stocks. CAO essentially comprises permanently ice-covered deep basins and ridges outside continental shelves, only accessible by ice-breakers. Traditional trawling for assessing stocks impossible under thick pack ice, coherent hydroacoustic surveys are unachi...

Microalgae growing within and attached to the bottom of Arctic sea ice (sympagic algae) can serve as a nutritious food resource for animals inhabiting sea-ice water interface (under-ice fauna), particularly during ice-algal bloom in spring. As consequence, under-ice fauna is likely impacted by decline changes primary production. To investigate this, samples pelagic (=PPOM) ice-associated partic...

An eastern Arctic marine food web was analyzed for perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS, C8F17SO3-), perfluorooctanoate (PFOA, C7F15COO-), perfluorooctane sulfonamide (PFOSA, C8F17SO2NH2), and N-ethylperfluorooctane sulfonamide (N-EtPFOSA, C8F17SO2NHCH2CH3) to examine the extent of bioaccumulation. PFOS was detected in all species analyzed, and mean concentrations ranged from 0.28 +/- 0.09 ng/g (arit...

We consider a model of inhomogeneous universe with the presence of a massless scalar field, where the inhomogeneity is assumed to consist of many black holes. This model can be constructed by following Lindquist and Wheeler, which has already been investigated without the presence of scalar field to show that an averaged scale factor coincides with that of the Friedmann model in Einstein gravit...

Nobutsugu Abe Seiichiro Abe Yasushi Adachi Parra-Blanco Adolfo Taiji Akamatsu Yuji Amano John Anderson Tiing Leong Ang Nobuo Aoyama Tetsuo Arakawa Tomiyasu Arisawa Everson Artifon Itsuko Asada-Hirayama Reiko Ashida Rajeev Attam Ji Young Bang Jamie Barkin Peter Basford Deepak Bhasin Leonidas Bourikas Jie Chen Peng-Jen Chen Han-Mo Chiu Massimo Conio Philip Craig Steven DeMeester Edward Despott Vi...