Inorganic nutrients measured on water bottle samples from CTD Water-sampler system and ice cores during FAABulous project period (2015-2018)

The project "Future Algae Blooms" (FAABulous) was funded by the Norwegian Research Council under their OKOSYSTEM call in 2014, and runs from April 2015 until March 2020 (project nr. 243702). This project was intended to show how ongoing climate change will affect the development of algae blooms in sea ice and water in a future Arctic ocean. The final results will consist of an amalgamation of (i) extensive field studies in two Arctic fjord systems with contrasting environmental characteristics, (ii) experiments to study the combined effect of increased light and CO2 on natural algae communities and single species, and (iii) developing models that allow us to study the relative importance (and joint effects) of different stress factors and the effect of these three processes on Arctic algal blooms in sea ice and water, with a special focus on the control of the onset and development of a bloom. Inorganic nutrients were measured in water samples and ice cores throughout the project period from 2015 to 2017.