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PROJECT IDENTIFICATION Project acronym: B.B.Polar Project title: Bivalves pan-arctique comme bio-archives polaires Scientific officer: Laurent CHAUVAUD Address: Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR UMR6539) Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer Université de Bretagne Occidentale Rue Dumont d'Urville 29280 Plouzané France Phone: 02.98.49.86.33 E-mail address: Laurent.Chauvaud@univ-brest.fr Date of commencement of project: March 1, 2013 End date of the project: March 1, 2016 Project website: French version: http://www-iuem.univ-brest.fr/observatoire/observation-outre-mer/spitzberg/observation-outre-mer/spitzberg/b-b-polar English version: http://www-iuem.univ-brest.fr/observatoire/observation-outre-mer/spitzberg/observation-outre-mer/spitzberg/b-b-polar-en Date of preparation of the present report: 14 April 2014 Period covered by the present report: the first year of the project from March 1, 2013 to March 1, 2014.

PROJECT PROGRESS

Description of project progress – Scientific Part

In B.B. Polar project, we propose to use marine bivalves as biological archives of

environmental changes in Arctic Ocean. These biological tools will be implemented to monitor the

parameters of the Arctic environment at different time scales (daily to decadal) and space (from the

single fjord to pan-Arctic view) by using two bivalve species, Chlamys islandica and Astarte spp.

B.B. polar proposes to apply the methods of describing the recent past environment in order to

obtain:

1. A calibration and validation of the environmental descriptors of the sites already

instrumented (Kongsfjorden and Rijpfjorden in Svalbard)

2. A description of the environmental variations during the last decades coupling data on

Chlamys islandica and the long-lived species Astarte spp.

3. A description of the environmental variations at the Pan-Arctic scale by enhancing the

geographical area to non-instrumented sites in the Greenland and Canadian Arctic.

To address these objectives, the first year of the project was dedicated to instrumentation and

sampling during four scientific missions:

• April 30 to May 17: 1st mission in Kongsfjorden (Svalbard)

• 9 to 23 May: 1st Mission in Nuuk (Greenland)

• 24 August to 5 September: 2nd mission in Nuuk (Greenland)

• 23 September to 7 October: 2nd mission in Kongsfjorden (Svalbard)

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ANR project - ECOTAB (N. Morata) also working on Chlamys islandica.

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An international exhibition project is being prepared gathering creations of:

- Jean Gaumy / France

- Sandrine Paumelle / France

- Erwan Amice / France

- Jean-Pierre Aubé/ Quebec (http://www.kloud.org/ )

- Jacynthe Carrier / Quebec (http://jacynthecarrier.com/)

In such multi art project, it needs a curator. Franck Michel held this position. Indeed, through

the diversity of artistic practices and the multitude of possible works interpretations, the role of the

curator is to make sense, direct reading, make works coexist in a coherent whole with a thematic or a

given theoretical concept. The Curator shall establish a significant dialogue between works. To do so,

he develops a central idea and approach, accompanies and supports artists in their efforts and also

ensures the space in the exhibition space. Its mandate is to establish a bridge between the works and

the public by providing key readings and interpretation to facilitate access to works.

Approached locations to host this project are:

- Paris - Museum of Natural History, Paris

- Brest - Océanopolis

- Brest - Passerelle

- Lyon - Confluence Museum

- Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Rimouski

- Norway - Tromso, Oslo (please specify)

Provisional timetable for the exhibition:

New meeting with Franck Michel June 2014

Funding research End June 2014

Finalization of project design and scenography January 2015

Creations production (individual and communal) February à December 2015

Tour begins January 2016

Consortium meetings

Members of BB Polar project had the opportunity to meet twice during the first year of the

project.

The first meeting was held September 13, 2013 with a representative of all scientific and artistic

project partners. This meeting was an opportunity:

- exchange between the partners after 6 months of project

- evaluate the two missions realized in May 2013 and organize the next two for the end of 2013

and 2014

- Present the artistic partners projects

The second meeting was held on 6 March 2014 allowing scientists, artists, photographers,

coordinators and organizers of the project to discuss following the mission in Svalabard in September

2013. This meeting was an opportunity to:

- Share this common experience

- To present the status of various artistic projects: Jean Gaumy, Sandrine Paumelle and Erwan Amice

- Present the exhibition projects and the possibility to product a book.

Publication et congrès

Communications scientifiques

1. Sclérochronologie des mollusques polaires pour l’observation des variations environnementales

(2013) Colloque «Arctique : les grands enjeux scientifiques» acte fondateur du Chantier Arctique,

3 au 5 juin 2013 au Collège de France, à Paris

2. Bivalves Pan-Arctiques comme bioarchives polaires : Projet scientifique B.B Polar (2013)

Colloque «Arctique : les grands enjeux scientifiques» acte fondateur du Chantier Arctique, 3 au 5

juin 2013 au Collège de France, à Paris

3. Effets du couplage pélago-benthique sur la dynamique des populations du bivalve filtreur

Bathyarca glacialis (J E Gray, 1824) d’environnements contrastés de l’Arctique Canadien (2013)

Colloque «Arctique : les grands enjeux scientifiques» acte fondateur du Chantier Arctique, 3 au 5

juin 2013 au Collège de France, à Paris

4. Pan-Arctic Bivalves as polar bioarchives (2014) Bivarc Workshop « Bivalves in Artic » in Tromsø,

Norway, 18-19th of February 2014

5. Ecophysiological study of the bivalve, Chlamys islandica, in situ versus ex situ approaches (2014)

Bivarc Workshop « Bivalves in Artic » in Tromsø, Norway, 18-19th of February 2014

6. Chlamys islandica biology studied in field experiments (2014) « Kongsfjorden Ecosystem – new

views after more than a decade of research», Workshop in Hamn i Senja, Norway, 10-17 March

2014

7. Coupling multi-trophic markers and sclera-chronology/-chemistry methods on arctic bivalves to

assess climate change effects on the pelagic-benthic coupling (2014) Ocean Sciences Meeting in

Hononulu, Hawaii, USA, 23-28 February 2014

Communications artistiques

1. Bivalves Pan-Arctiques comme bioarchives polaires : Projet artistique B.B Polar (2013) Colloque

«Arctique : les grands enjeux scientifiques» acte fondateur du Chantier Arctique, 3 au 5 juin 2013

au Collège de France, à Paris

2. Sandrine Paumelle dans la revue Artension (n° 121, Septembre - Octobre 2013)

3. Sandrine Paumelle dans la revue Artension (n°122, Novembre - Décembre 2013)

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