Tagging of narwhals in Kangerlussuaq, East Greenland
General
Organisation
Department
Project start
15.08.2017
Project end
10.09.2017
Type of project
Research
Project theme
Marine ecosystems
Project topic
Biology
Marine mammals
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Fieldwork / Study
Fieldwork country
Greenland (DK)
Fieldwork region
Greenland, Mid-East
Fieldwork location
Geolocation is 68.229761021618, -32.019653320312
Fieldwork start
15.08.2017
Fieldwork end
10.09.2017
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Project details
24.09.2018
Science / project plan
The population identity of narwhals in Kangerlussuaq in East Greenland is unknown and satellite tracking will be used to identify the connections to neighboring summering stocks of narwhals.
| Title | Course start date | End date | Organisation | Department | Project study region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community-based monitoring of Common Eider, Southwest Greenland | 15.06.2017 | 30.06.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, South-West |
| Polar bears in the Greenland Sea | 01.07.2017 | 30.09.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, North-East |
| 2012 ASP Scoresby Sund campaign | 01.03.2012 | 21.03.2012 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, Mid-East |
| Acoustic monitoring of marine mammals in a changing Arctic: East Greenland | 29.01.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, Mid-East | |
| Acquisition of oceanographic measurements from baleen whales | 01.05.2018 | 31.05.2018 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Baffin Bay |
| Aerial survey (counting ringed seals) in Kangia – The icefjord next to Ilulissat | 21.05.2018 | 21.05.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Aerial survey for marine mammals in the Thule region | 05.04.2018 | 20.04.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, North-West |
| Aerial survey for narwhals in Dove Bay, out of Danmarkshavn | 20.08.2018 | 10.09.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland Sea |
| Aerial survey of marine mammals in East Greenland | 18.08.2017 | 10.09.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, North-East |
| Aerial survey of marine mammals in the North East Water polynya | 27.03.2017 | 09.04.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, North-East |
| Aerial winter survey of seabirds in Southwest Greenland | 28.02.2017 | 21.03.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, South-West |
| Arctic Marine Benthos 2017 | 08.08.2017 | 12.08.2017 | UiT University of Tromsø | Svalbard | |
| Arctic tern monitoring | 18.06.2018 | 27.06.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Disko Bay |
| Biodiversity dynamics and processes of planktonic organisms over the annual cycle in the Arctic | 01.04.2017 | 30.04.2018 | Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) | Greenland, Mid-West | |
| Blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou): behaviour and distribution in Greenland waters | 15.03.2016 | 15.03.2016 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, Mid-East |
| Capelin Migration and Stock Structure using Otolith | 12.06.2017 | 10.07.2017 | Technical University of Denmark (DTU) | DTU Aqua | Greenland Sea |
| Community-based monitoring of Common Eider, Northwest Greenland | 15.06.2018 | 08.07.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, North-West |
| Community-based monitoring of Common Eider, Northwest Greenland | 28.06.2017 | 15.07.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, North-West |
| Community-based monitoring of Common Eider, Southwest Greenland | 11.06.2018 | 11.06.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, South-West |
| Contrasting plankton diversity and interactions with organic matter flux in Arctic fjord systems subject differential climatic forcing mechanisms along the coast of Svalbard 2017 | 28.07.2017 | 18.08.2017 | Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) | Svalbard | |
| Data-loggers on ringed seals and Greenland halibuts in Kangia (The icefjord next to Ilulissat) | 23.07.2018 | 08.07.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Data-loggers on ringed seals and Greenland halibuts in Sermilik (The icefjord next to Tasiilaq) | 23.07.2018 | 11.08.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, South-East |
| Drivers and patterns of thermal tolerance of Greenland marine biota | 25.08.2016 | 02.09.2016 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, South-West |
| Ecological hotspots in the Baffin Bay; spatial and food chain linkages betweem seabirds and lower trophic levels. | 31.05.2016 | 17.07.2016 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Baffin Bay |
| Ecosystem survey of Ilulissat Icefjord | 01.11.2018 | 31.10.2021 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Effect of freshwater and terrestrial organic carbon loading on the carbon turnover in Young Sound, NE Greenland | 28.07.2015 | 18.08.2015 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, North-East |
| Environmental monitoring at the Nalunaq Goldmine | 22.08.2017 | 29.08.2017 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, South-West |
| Evolutionary potential and contemporary evolution in a changing Arctic environment: Arctic charr and three-spine stickleback in Greenland | 23.09.2013 | 02.10.2013 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, South-West |
| First survey on marine litter in West Greenland - Nuuk | 23.05.2016 | 05.06.2016 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Harp seal pup telemetry - distribution and dive behavior | 03.04.2017 | 19.04.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland Sea |
| Humpback whale ecology study | 01.05.2019 | 01.11.2019 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Ichtyoplankton and pelagic fish sampling as validation for echoes of EK80 | 01.08.2018 | 15.08.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, North-West |
| Importance of benthic primary production assessed by in situ eddy-correlation measurements | 22.07.2014 | 12.08.2014 | University of Southern Denmark (SDU) | Department of Biology, SDU | Greenland, North-East |
| Initiating North Atlantic Benthos Monitoring (INAMon) | 28.05.2017 | 27.09.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, South-West |
| Instrumentation of bowhead whales with CTD tags | 05.05.2017 | 18.05.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, Mid-West |
| INuit Feeding on Legacy Un-wanted Xenobiotics (INFLUX). | 01.09.2016 | 30.10.2016 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, Mid-East |
| Linking primary producers to top-predators: The role of capelin and sandeel in the Godthåbsfjord area | 04.05.2013 | 15.05.2013 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Little auk foraging ecology at Kap Høegh | 01.07.2018 | 10.08.2018 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, North-East |
| Maarmorilik - Environmental studies | 31.07.2017 | 15.08.2017 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Marin Basis Zackenberg | 25.07.2017 | 23.08.2017 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, North-East |
| Marin Basis Zackenberg | 24.07.2018 | 15.08.2018 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, North-East |
| Marin Basis Zackenberg 2019 | 01.01.2019 | 31.12.2019 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, North-East |
| Marine Litter in Greenland | 01.06.2017 | 30.09.2017 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, Mid-West |
| MarineBasis Zackenberg | 25.07.2018 | 16.08.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, North-East |
| MarineBasis-Nuuk | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, South-West |
| MarineBasis-Nuuk | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, South-West |
| Mercury transport and transformation across the sea ice environment | 06.04.2013 | 17.04.2013 | University of Manitoba (UoM) | Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) | Greenland, South-West |
| Microplastics in benthic fauna and sediments in Arctic waters | 24.07.2017 | 30.07.2017 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Microplastics in benthic fauna and sediments in Arctic waters | 26.06.2017 | 26.06.2017 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Svalbard |
| Microplastics in benthic fauna and sediments in Arctic waters – Part 2 | 01.07.2018 | 31.08.2018 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Svalbard |
| Mytilus species in Greenland – climate related distribution and implications for environmental monitoring | 15.08.2016 | 23.08.2016 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, Mid-West |
| NERC Changing Arctic Ocean | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2022 | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | NERC Changing Arctic Ocean (CAO) | Arctic Ocean |
| NERC Changing Arctic Ocean Cruise JR17005 | 06.05.2018 | 29.05.2018 | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | NERC Changing Arctic Ocean (CAO) | Greenland Sea |
| NERC Changing Arctic Ocean Cruise JR17006 | 05.06.2018 | 30.06.2018 | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | NERC Changing Arctic Ocean (CAO) | Barents Sea |
| NERC Changing Arctic Ocean Cruise JR17007 | 06.07.2018 | 27.07.2018 | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | NERC Changing Arctic Ocean (CAO) | Barents Sea |
| North Water Polynya Scientific Conference in Copenhagen | 21.11.2017 | 24.11.2017 | Aarhus University (AU) | Greenland, North-West | |
| Otoliths and mussel shells as recorders of potential future pollution on a transect from Nuuk to the proposed Isua iron-mine | 05.09.2013 | 15.09.2013 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, South-West |
| Otoliths, shells and plants as potential archives of heavy metal pollution in Greenland investigated using LA-ICP-MS - 2016 | 15.08.2016 | 23.08.2016 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Paamiut cruise 1: Shrimp and Fish survey in West Greenland | 28.05.2017 | 12.06.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Paamiut cruise 2: Shrimp and Fish survey in West Greenland | 15.06.2017 | 04.07.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, North-West |
| Paamiut cruise 3: Shrimp and Fish survey in West Greenland | 07.07.2017 | 18.07.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, South-West |
| Paamiut cruise 4: Trawlsurvey in East Greenland | 21.07.2017 | 09.08.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, South-East |
| Paamiut cruise 5: Whale Survey in Scoresby Sund | 12.08.2017 | 21.08.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, Mid-East |
| Paamiut cruise 6: Trawlsurvey in East Greenland | 24.08.2017 | 10.09.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, South-East |
| Paamiut cruise 7: Greenland halibut trawlsurvey in West Greenland | 13.09.2017 | 29.09.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Davis Strait |
| Paamiut cruise 8: Greenland halibut trawlsurvey in Canadian region of Baffin Bay | 03.10.2017 | 02.11.2017 | Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Baffin Bay | |
| Pelagic ecosystem survey in South-East Greenland | 19.07.2017 | 07.08.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, South-East |
| pH and the possible buffering role of the expanding marine vegetation against ocean acidification in coastal waters of Greenland | 26.08.2013 | 27.09.2013 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Polar bears in East Greenland | 15.03.2017 | 20.04.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, South-East |
| POLAR BEARS IN THE GREENLAND SEA | 07.04.2018 | 07.05.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, North-East |
| Processes deternining the quantity and fate of net primary production | 07.05.2013 | 15.05.2013 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Proportions of different cod populations in the inshore fishing for cod (PIFT) | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Quantifying the influences of biogeochemical processes on carbon dynamics in the Godthåbsfjord | 07.05.2013 | 15.05.2013 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, South-West |
| Research Cruise Greenland Sea Aug/Sep 2017 | 23.08.2017 | 11.09.2017 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland Sea |
| Ringed seal biology in Kangia (Jacobshavn Icefjord) near Ilulissat | 01.01.2017 | 30.06.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Ringed seal telemetry - distribution and dive behavior | 14.08.2017 | 15.09.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, North-East |
| RV Sanna cruice 2 Maniitsoq area cod survey | 19.05.2018 | 28.05.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, Mid-West |
| RV Sanna cruice 3 - Sisimiut area - Cod and Snowcrab survey | 31.05.2018 | 23.06.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, Mid-West |
| RV SANNA CRUICE 4 - Disko Bay - Greenland halibut and Snowcrab survey | 27.06.2018 | 16.07.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, North-West |
| RV SANNA CRUICE 5 - Uummannaq fjord - Greenland halibut survey | 20.07.2018 | 01.08.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, North-West |
| RV SANNA CRUICE 6 - Upernavik fjords - Greenland halibut survey | 05.08.2018 | 18.08.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, North-West |
| RV SANNA CRUICE 9 - Nuuk Fjord and Ameralik - Greenland halibut, shrimp and cod trawl survey | 10.09.2018 | 21.09.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Sampling of biopsies from bowhead whales in Disko Bay | 15.02.2017 | 15.05.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, North-West |
| Sandlance larval ecology in West Greenland | 12.01.2018 | 30.06.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Sanna cruise 10: Greenland halibut, Upernavik | 22.08.2017 | 04.09.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, North-West |
| Sanna cruise 11: Craig Lee | 08.09.2017 | 21.09.2017 | University of Washington | Davis Strait | |
| Sanna cruise 13: Nuuk inshore trawl survey | 05.10.2017 | 11.10.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, South-West |
| Sanna cruise 1: Greenland shark | 27.04.2017 | 06.05.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, South-West |
| Sanna cruise 2: Nuuk education | 09.05.2017 | 18.05.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, South-West |
| Sanna cruise 3: Maniitsoq cod survey | 21.05.2017 | 28.05.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Sanna cruise 4: Maniitsoq snowcrab and juvenile cod survey | 31.05.2017 | 24.06.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Sanna cruise 5: Kangaatsiaq cod survey | 27.06.2017 | 03.07.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Sanna cruise 6: Climate research | 06.07.2017 | 11.07.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, North-West |
| Sanna cruise 7: Greenland halibut and Snowcrab survey, Disko Bay | 13.07.2017 | 29.07.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Sanna cruise 8: Greenland halibut, Uummannaq | 02.08.2017 | 14.08.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Sanna cruise 9: Equipment, Melville Bugt | 18.08.2017 | 20.08.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Baffin Bay |
| Seabird monitoring, Disko Bay | 15.07.2017 | 31.07.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton production in a glacier influenced fjord | 07.05.2013 | 15.05.2013 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Sensitivity of juvenile Arctic char to heavy metals | 13.08.2016 | 14.10.2016 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, South-West |
| Silicic acid limitation, diatom bloom termination and carbon sequestration in an Arctic bloom | 15.04.2017 | 15.06.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, South-West |
| Southampton Island Marine Ecosystem Project (SIMEP) | 01.08.2018 | 20.08.2018 | University of Manitoba (UoM) | Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) | Hudson Bay |
| Surfacing time of minke and fin whales in West Greenland | 01.07.2017 | 30.09.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Tagging of bowhead whales in the Greenland Sea | 23.05.2017 | 17.06.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland Sea |
| Tagging of narwhals in Scoresby Sound , East Greenland | 15.07.2017 | 31.08.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, Mid-East |
| The Baffin Bay System Study - Sanna Campaign 2016 | 11.08.2016 | 31.08.2016 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Baffin Bay |
| The Blue Shelf | 01.05.2018 | 31.08.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Fish and Shellfish | Greenland, Mid-West |
| Thick-billed murre studies, Ittoqqortoormiit | 15.07.2018 | 31.07.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, Mid-East |
| Thick-billed murre studies, Maniitsoq | 15.07.2018 | 31.07.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, South-West |
| Thick-billed murre studies, Maniitsoq | 15.07.2017 | 31.07.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, South-West |
| Thick-billed murre studies, Upernavik | 01.07.2018 | 31.07.2018 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, North-West |
| Thick-billed murre studies, Upernavik | 15.07.2017 | 31.07.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, North-West |
| Top predators in a changing ecosystem | 01.09.2017 | 30.09.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Greenland Climate Research Centre | Greenland, South-East |
| Walruses in Upernavik | 15.05.2017 | 31.12.2017 | Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) | Department of Birds and Mammals | Greenland, North-West |
| Young Sund Campaign 2016 | 26.07.2016 | 18.08.2016 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, North-East |