SeaQUESTER Blue Carbon sequestration in Polar Ecosystems

SEA-Quester is investigating marine carbon cycling in novel ecosystems in the polar seas that are emerging due to climate change. Melting sea ice, changing currents, and a warmer ocean are already changing species distribution, behaviour, and metabolism. How these will further impact marine biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, like carbon sequestration, in the polar seas is poorly understood. However, this potentially has large consequences for meeting biodiversity and climate change mitigation targets.

SEA-Quester runs from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2028, and is a collaboration between the following partners: Technical University of Denmark, DTU-Aqua (Denmark, Lead), University of Bremen (Germany), Greenland Climate Research Centre, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR, Greenland), Alfred-Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar & Marine Research (Germany), Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW, Germany), Åbo Akademi University (Finland), Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN), GRID-Arendal (Norway), Hereon Helmholtz-Zentrum (Germany), Imperial College London, and Aarhus University (Denmark).

SEA-Quester received funding under Grant Agreement No: 101136480. Our sister project, Polar Ocean Mitigation Potential (POMP) was also funded under the same call HORIZON-CL6-2023-CLIMATE-01-3.