Steve Allen is an Ocean Frontier Institute researcher at Dalhousie University in Canada. He received his doctorate with the University of Strathclyde on microplastic and nanoplastic transport and characterization, sampling techniques and transport modeling.
Last summer, we travelled to the remote Arctic Hausgarten observatory area in the eastern Fram Strait (west of Svalbard, Norway) on a research ship. The samples we collected there included ice cores, sea water and ice algae from large packs of floating ice called ice floes. These form 1–2 meter thick “plates” of sea ice […]
