... of Synedropsis hyperborea ) isolated from landfast sea ice near Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Crude oil inhibition of growth was complex and dependent on species and irradiance level. A. septentrionalis was generally tolerant to crude oil exposure, but toxicity was enhanced at the highest irradiance. The cryopelagic taxon...

... balance between thermodynamic and biological processes, where metal availability does not appear to limit sea-ice algal growth. Yet the high concentrations of dissolved Cu and Zn found in our sea-ice samples raise concern about their potential toxicity if unchelated by organic ligands. Finally...