Laura Dalman

Just arrived in Tromsø to start my SCAR fellowship work over the next couple of months focused on all things #icealgae. Thanks to the @SCAR_Tweets and @FPA2 for the support in making this possible. Excited to get things started! #Antarctic meets #Arctic

1⃣ At its peak, #Antarctic sea ice covers twice the area of Australia. That's a lot of habitat for the microscopic algae that live in and under sea ice – like 'a vast unseen meadow', says AAPP PhD student Laura Dalman @IMASUTAS (seen in action on a ice floe below). 📸 S Moreau

@drsianhenley @SOOSocean @BEPSII_seaice @SCAR_Tweets @GeosciencesEd Thanks so much, Sian! Couldn’t have done it without you!

Congratulations @polaur_! Wonderful to see this paper on sea ice organic carbon production out. You led the team expertly from the start and brought the paper home - well done! Thanks for having me in your team :-) @SOOSocean @BEPSII_seaice @SCAR_Tweets @GeosciencesEd

🚨New paper in GRL! 🚨We compiled 30 years of organic carbon data from 362 #Antarctic ice cores to provide a robust estimate of net community production in sea ice - key to understanding the role of ice algae in polar ecosystems. #seaice Open access: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

🌏 “Between @NASA and @NOAA, if we were to lose the capabilities of one or both of them, we’d be in a pretty dark place literally and figuratively, not knowing what’s going on with the Earth.” — Dr Alex Fraser, AAPP/@UTAS_ in @GuardianAus theguardian.com/science/2025/m…

🦠 @IMASUTAS PhD candidate Laura Dalman wins SCAR Fellowship, studying the response of algal cultures from #Antarctic sea-ice to changing 🌡️ temperatures 🧂 salinities 💡 light to simulate the future with global warming. @polaur_ @SCAR_Tweets @UTAS_ aappartnership.org.au/shedding-light…

Very grateful to receive the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation SCAR Fellowship! Can’t wait to get my project focused on the responses of Antarctic ice algae to changing environmental conditions started in Norway with @klc_algae lab at UiT! 👩🏼‍🔬 Thank you @SCAR_Tweets @FPA2 !

Submitted my PhD! Yew! It focuses on the physical influences on ice-associated primary production in the Antarctic 🇦🇶

Big congratulations to @klc_algae on receiving ERC funding! 👏🏼🎉

@MarloWordyBird Ahh I missed meeting you! Next time !

Some of the @IMASUTAS crew attending the #SCAR2024 conference over the last week. Had a blast, great networking and enjoyed the beautiful views that Chile has to offer!

Presented some of my PhD work that focuses on estimating net community production in Antarctic sea ice using a biomass accumulation approach at #SCAR2024

Excited to share our new paper out today in @Nature: We found that windblown iron-rich dust supports a third of the Southern Ocean’s biological productivity, highlighting the vital role dust plays in the global carbon cycle. 🌬️🏜️🌊🌱 📝 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Scientists from @IMASUTAS, @CSIRO, @ClimateExtremes, @AntarcticSciAus & AAPP use robotic floats to find dust from land fertilises 🅞🅝🅔-🅣🅗🅘🅡🅓 of the Southern Ocean’s productivity — revealing the key role of dust in carbon storage and global climate. aappartnership.org.au/windblown-dust…

What can the new Hyperspectral Imaging (HI) ROV #HIcyBot do? · Works in two modes: sea-ice and benthic scanning (two highly interconnected worlds). · Every frame of the high frequency imager is timestamped via GPS clock to acoustically provided underwater position and attitude.

Thank you @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience for telling our story. Antarctic science is more important than ever in today's changing world. We just feel 'gutted' by this huge loss. science.org/content/articl…

New Research: Vertical distributions of organic matter components in sea ice near Cambridge Bay, Dease Strait, Canadian Archipelago: Ice algae thriving within sea ice play a crucial role in transferring energy to higher trophic levels and… #MarineScience frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Potentially serve as an additional early food source for higher trophic levels following sea ice melt. @FrontMarineSci (2/2)

New 📄: Vertical distributions of organic matter in sea ice profiles in the Canadian Archipelago. We highlight that while bottom ice is the peak ice algal bloom dominated by micro-sized cells, the upper sections also provide particulate matter that (1/2) frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Beluga habitat use in summer is important to identify for future management decisions. We used multiple discriminate analysis to differentiate between beluga habitat areas based on environmental variables and how variables related to prey availability. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/as…