The use of high-frequency water quality monitoring has increased over several decades. This has mostly been motivated by curiosity-driven research and has significantly improved our understanding of hydrochemical processes. Despite these scientific successes and the growth in sensor technology, the large-scale uptake of high-frequency water quality monitoring by water managers is hampered by a lack of comprehensive practical g...

Satellite telemetry (ST) has played a critical role in the management and conservation of polar bears ( Ursus maritimus ) over the last 50 years. ST data provide biological information relevant to subpopulation delineation, movements, habitat use, maternal denning, health, human-bear interactions, and accurate estimates of vital rates and abundance. Given that polar bears are distributed at low densities over vast and remote h...

Calcification is a major failure mode of bioprosthetic heart valves. So far, cost and time saving in vitro analyses of calcification potentials are unreliable, mostly due to superficial or spontaneous precipitation of the applied fluids. In this study, we developed a near-physiological non-spontaneously precipitating fluid for an accelerated in vitro calcification assessment, and validated it by analyzing the calcification pot...

The effects of declining Arctic sea ice on local ecosystem productivity are not well understood but have been shown to vary inter‐specifically, spatially, and temporally. Because marine mammals occupy upper trophic levels in Arctic food webs, they may be useful indicators for understanding variation in ecosystem productivity. Polar bears ( Ursus maritimus ) are apex predators that primarily consume benthic and pelagic‐feeding...

Polar bears ( Ursus maritimus ) have experienced substantial changes in the seasonal availability of sea ice habitat in parts of their range, including the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering Seas. In this study, we compared the body size, condition, and recruitment of polar bears captured in the Chukchi and Bering Seas ( CS ) between two periods (1986–1994 and 2008–2011) when declines in sea ice habitat occurred. In addition, we co...

Cardiomyopathy syndrome ( CMS ) in A tlantic salmon, S almo salar L ., is a severe cardiac disease characterized by a necrotizing myocarditis involving the atrium and the spongious part of the ventricle. The disease is caused by piscine myocarditis virus ( PMCV ), a double‐stranded RNA virus likely belonging to the family Totiviridae . The objective of this study was to evaluate the genetic variation in Norwegian PMCV isolates...