Research Interests

I am a biological oceanographer interested in understanding phytoplankton dynamics in polar environments. My main research focuses on how environmental drivers and changes are altering phytoplankton phenology, productivity and structure. In both polar regions (i.e., the Arctic and Southern oceans), climate change is drastically affecting the interplay between the atmosphere, the cryosphere and the oceans. My recent work, conducted with collaborators, shows how these fragile polar ecosystems are responding to warmer, more acidic and longer sea-ice free oceans by combining satellite, field and autonomous platform observations.

Education

2018 - 2021
Postdoctoral fellowship - Marie Curie «Outgoing» Fellowship
Stanford University / Sorbonne Université, USA / France

2015 - 2017
Postdoctoral fellowship - CNES Fellowship
Sorbonne Université, France

2010 - 2015
PhD in Oceanography
Université Laval, Canada
Les communautés phytoplanctoniques dans un océan Arctique en mutation: Biogéographie, phénologie, productivité.

2007 - 2010
M.Sc in Oceanography
ISMER (Institut des sciences de la mer) - UQAR, Canada
Influence des facteurs du milieu sur la structure et le fonctionnement des communautés phytoplanctoniques du Haut-Arctique canadien : distinction des régions oligotrophes et eutrophes.

2007 - 2008
M. Sc. Sciences, Mention Oceanography
Centre d'océanologie de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II), Marseille, France

2006 - 2007
B. Sc. Environment and marine sciences
Centre d'océanologie de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II), Marseille, France

2004 - 2006
Diploma of superior technician of the sea (DTSM)
INTECHMER (CNAM), Cherbourg, France

Research Experience

Researcher (2021 - present)
International Research Laboratory Takuvik (CNRS / ULaval) (IRL 3376)
Université Laval, Canada

Postdoctoral fellowship (2018 - 2021)
Marie Curie «Outgoing» Fellowship - Stanford University / Sorbonne Université
USA / France

Postdoctoral fellowship (2015 - 2017)
CNES Fellowship - Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV) / Sorbonne Université
France

Awards

2015
Étudiants-chercheurs étoiles, Fond de recherche du Québec

2014 & 2015
Attestation of excellence, Université Laval

2014
Fond Richard-Bernard fellowship

Publications

2022

Ibarbalz, F. M., Henry, N., Mahé, F., Ardyna, M., Zingone, A., Scalco, E., Lovejoy, C., Lombard, F., Jaillon, O., Iudicone, D., Malviya, S., Tara Oceans Coordinators, Sullivan, M. B., Chaffron, S., Karsenti, E., Babin, M., Boss, E., Wincker, P., Zinger, L., … Karp-Boss, L. (2023). Pan-Arctic plankton community structure and its global connectivity. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11(1), 00060. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00060

Joy-Warren, H. L., Lewis, K. M., Ardyna, M., Tremblay, J.-É., Babin, M., & Arrigo, K. R. (2023). Similarity in phytoplankton photophysiology among under-ice, marginal ice, and open water environments of Baffin Bay (Arctic Ocean). Elem Sci Anth, 11(1), 00080. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00080

2022

Ardyna, M., Hamilton, D. S., Harmel, T., Lacour, L., Bernstein, D. N., Laliberté, J., Horvat, C., Laxenaire, R., Mills, M. M., Van Dijken, G., Polyakov, I., Claustre, H., Mahowald, N., & Arrigo, K. R. (2022). Wildfire aerosol deposition likely amplified a summertime Arctic phytoplankton bloom. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), 201. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00511-9

Hamilton, D. S., Mahowald, N. M., Ardyna, M., Harmel, T., Perron, M., Tagliabue, A., Bernstein, D., Ito, A., Mills, M. M., Bowie, A. R., Lacour, L., Horvat, C., Laxenaire, R., Laliberté, J., van Dijken, G., Polyakov, I., Claustre, H., & Arrigo, K. R. (2022). Wildfires as a source of aerosol nutrients and impacts on marine biogeochemical cycles. 2022, B52J-0997. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022AGUFM.B52J0997H

2021

Chaffron, S., Delage, E., Budinich, M., Vintache, D., Henry, N., Nef, C., Ardyna, M., Zayed, A. A., Junger, P. C., Galand, P. E., Lovejoy, C., Murray, A. E., Sarmento, H., Tara Oceans coordinators, Acinas, S. G., Babin, M., Iudicone, D., Jaillon, O., Karsenti, E., … Eveillard, D. (2021). Environmental vulnerability of the global ocean epipelagic plankton community interactome. Science Advances, 7(35), eabg1921. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg1921

Trudnowska E., Lacour L., Ardyna, M., Rogge, A., Irisson, J.-O., Waite, A., Babin, M. & Stemmann, L. (2021). Marine snow morphology reflects the evolution of phytoplankton blooms and determines their subsequent vertical export. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22994-4

2020

Ardyna, M. & Arrigo, K.R. (2020). Phytoplankton dynamics in a changing Arctic Ocean. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0905-y

Ardyna, M., Mundy, C.J., Mayot, N., Matthes, L., Oziel, L., Horvat, C., Leu, E., Assmy, P., Hill, V., Gale, M., Matrai, P., Melnikov, I. & Arrigo, K.R. (2020). Under-ice phytoplankton blooms: shedding light on the ‘invisible’ part of Arctic primary production. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.608032

Ardyna, M., Mundy, C.J., Mills, M., Oziel, L., Grondin, P.-L., Lacour, L., Verin, G., van Dikjen, G., Ras, J., Alou, E., Babin, M., Gosselin, M., Tremblay, J.-É. Raimbault, P., Assmy, P., Nicolaus, M., Claustre, H. & Arrigo, K. R. (2020). Environmental drivers of under-ice phytoplankton bloom dynamics in the Arctic Ocean. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.430

Massicotte, P., Amiraux, R., Amyot, M.P., Archambault, P., Ardyna, M., … Babin, M. (2020). Green Edge ice camp campaigns: understanding the processes controlling the Arctic phytoplankton spring bloom. Earth System Science Data. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-151-2020

Mayot N., Matrai, P., Arjona, A., Bélanger, S., Marchese, C., Jaegler, T., Ardyna, M. & Steele, M. (2020). Springtime export of Arctic sea ice drives the phytoplankton production in the Greenland Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015799

Oziel L., Baudena, A., Ardyna, M., Randelhoff, A., Massicotte, P., Lacour, L., Sallée, J.-B., Ingvaldsen, R., Devred, E. & Babin, M. (2020). Faster Atlantic currents drive poleward expansion of temperate marine species in the Arctic Ocean. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15485-5

Sergi S., Baudena, A., Cotté, C., Ardyna, M., Blain, S. & d’Ovidio, F. (2020). Interaction of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current with seamounts fuels moderate blooms but vast foraging grounds for marine predators. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00416

2019

Ardyna, M., Lacour, L., Sergi, S., D’Ovidio, F., Sallée, J.-B., Rembauville, M., Blain, S., Jeandel, C., Schlitzer, R., Tagliabue, A., Arrigo, K.R. & Claustre, H. (2019). Hydrothermal vents trigger massive phytoplankton blooms in the Southern Ocean. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09973-6

Lacour, L., Claustre, H., Briggs, N., Ardyna, M. & Dall’Olmo, G. (2019). Intra-seasonal dynamics of the mixed layer pump in the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre: a Bio-Argo float approach. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GB005997

Gregory A.C., Zayed, A.A., Conceição-Neto, N., Temperton, B., Bolduc, B., Alberti, A., Ardyna, M., Arkhipova, K., Cruaud, C., Dimier, C., Ferland, J., Kandels-Lewis, S., Liu, Y., Marec, C., Pesant, S., Picheral, M., Pisarev, S., Poulain, J., Tremblay, J.-É., Vik, D. & Tara Oceans coordinators, Babin, M., Bowler, C., Dutilh, B.E., Iudicone, D., Karp-Boss, L., Roux, S., Sunagawa, S., Wincker, P. & Sullivan, M.B. (2019). Marine viral macro- and micro-diversity from pole to pole. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.03.040

2018

Hill, V., Ardyna, M., Lee, S.H. & Varela, D. (2018). Decadal trends in phytoplankton production in the Pacific Arctic Region from 1950 to 2012. Deep Sea Research Part 2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.12.015

Joli, N., Gosselin, M., Ardyna, M., Babin, M., Tremblay, J.-É., Onda, D.F. & Lovejoy, C. (2018). Need for focus on microbial species following ice melt and changing freshwater regimes in a Janus Arctic Gateway. Scientific Report. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27705-6

2017

Ardyna, M., Claustre, H., Sallée, J.-B., D’Ovidio, F., Gentili, B., van Dijken, G., D’Ortenzio, F. & Arrigo, K.R. (2017). Delineating environmental control of phytoplankton productivity and phenology in the Southern Ocean Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL072428

Ardyna, M., Babin, M., Devred, E., Forest, A., Raimbault, P., Gosselin, M. & Tremblay, J.-É. (2017). Shelf-basin gradients shape ecological phytoplankton niches and community composition in the coastal Arctic Ocean (Beaufort Sea). Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10554

Lacour L., Ardyna, M., K. Stec, K., Claustre, H., Prieur, L., Ribera D’Alcala, M. & Iudicone, D. (2017). Unexpected winter phytoplankton blooms in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo3035

Blais, M., Ardyna, M., Gosselin, M., Dumont, D., Bélanger, S., Tremblay, J.-É., Gratton, Y., Marchese, C. & Poulin, M. (2017). Contrasting interannual changes in phytoplankton productivity and community structure in the coastal Canadian Arctic Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10581

Rembauville M., Briggs, N., Ardyna, M., Uitz, J., Penkerc’ch, C., Poteau, A., Claustre, H. & Blain, S. (2017). Plankton assemblage estimated from BGC-Argo floats in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JC013067

Oziel L., Neukermans, G., Ardyna, M., Lancelot, C., Tison, J-L., Wassmann, P., Ruiz-Pino, D., Sirven, J. & Gascard, J. C. (2017). Role for Atlantic inflows and sea ice loss on shifting phytoplankton blooms in the Barents Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC012582

Simo Matchim, A.G., Gosselin, M., Poulin, M., Ardyna, M. & Lessard, S. (2017). Summer and fall distribution of phytoplankton in relation to environmental variables in Labrador fjords, northeastern Canada, with a wink to Phaeocystis pouchetii. Marine Ecology Progress Series. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12125

Bouchard-Marmen M., Kenchington, E., Ardyna, M. & Archambault, P. (2017). Influence of seabird colonies and other environmental variables on benthic community structure, Lancaster Sound Region, Canadian Arctic. Journal Marine Systems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2016.11.021

2015

Babin, M., Bélanger, S., Ellinsten, I., Forest, A., Le Fouest, V., Lacour, T., Ardyna, M. & Slagstad, D. (2015). Estimation of primary production in the Arctic Ocean using ocean colour remote sensing and coupled physical-biological models: strengths, limitations and how they compare. Progress in Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2015.08.008

Lee, Y., Matrai, P., Friedrichs, M., Saba, V., Antoine, D., Ardyna, M., Asanuma, I., Babin, M., Bélanger, S., Benoît-Gagné, M., Devred, E., Fernández-Méndez, M., Gentili, B., Hirawake, T., Kang, S.-H., Kameda, T., Katlein, C., Lee, S., Lee, Z., Mélin, F., Scardi, M., Smyth, T., Tang, S., Turpie, K., Waters, K. & Westberry, T. (2015). An assessment of phytoplankton primary productivity in the Arctic Ocean from satellite ocean color/in situ chlorophyll-a based models. Journal of Geophysical Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JC011018

2014

Ardyna, M., Babin, M., Gosselin, M., Devred, E., Rainville, L. & Tremblay, J.-É. (2014). Recent Arctic Ocean sea-ice loss allows novel fall phytoplankton blooms. Geophysical Research Letters, 41. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL061047

2013

Ardyna, M., Babin, M., Gosselin, M., Devred, E., Bélanger, S., Matsuoka, A. & Tremblay, J.-É. (2013). Parameterization of vertical chlorophyll a in the Arctic Ocean: Impact of the subsurface chlorophyll maximum on regional, seasonal and annual primary production estimates. Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-4383-2013

2011

Ardyna, M., Gosselin, M., Michel, C., Poulin, M. & Tremblay, J.-É. (2011). Environmental forcing of phytoplankton community structure and function in the Canadian High Arctic: contrasting oligotrophic and eutrophic regions. Marine Ecology Progress Series. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09378

Forest A., Tremblay, J.-É., Gratton, Y., Martin, J., Gagnon, J., Darnis, G., Sampei, M., Fortier, L., Ardyna, M., Gosselin, M., Hattori, H., Nguyen, D., Maranger, R., Vaqué, R., Marrasé, C., Pedrós-Alió, C., Sallon, A., Michel, C., Kellogg, C., Deming, J., Shadwick, E., Thomas, H., Link, H., Archambault, P. & Piepenburg, D. (2011). Biogenic carbon flows through the planktonic food web of the Amundsen Gulf (Arctic Ocean): A synthesis of field measurements and inverse modeling analyses. Progress in Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2011.05.002

May, I., Carlson, D., Ardyna, M., Geoffroy, M. & Heikkilä, M. (2011). Using new technologies to make sciences more accessible and transparent to the general public. Polar Research. https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v30i0.15315

Book chapters:

Gosselin M., Mundy, C.J., Ardyna, M., Belt, S., Brown, T., Comeau, A., Larouche, P., Font, E.A., Lovejoy, C., Massé, G., Medrinal, E., Nozais, C., Philippe, B., Poulin, M., Sallon, A., Roy, S., Terrado, R. & Thaler, M. (2012). Light, nutrients and primary production, dans: D. Barber, Tjaden, T., Leitch, D., Barber, L. & Chan, W. (Eds.). On the edge: From knowledge to action during the Fourth International Polar Year Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL) system study (2007-2008). University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.