responses of microbial communities in arctic sea ice after contamination by crude petroleum oil. | microbial communities associated with arctic fjord ice polluted with petroleum oils were investigated in this study. a winter field experiment was conducted in the van mijen fjord (svalbard) from february to june 2004, in which the ice was contaminated with a north sea paraffinic oil. holes were drilled in the ice and oil samples frozen into the ice at the start of the experiment. samples, including cores of both oil-contaminated and clean ice, were collected from the field site 33, 74, and 112 ... | 2008 | 17805918 |