List of participants and cooperation partners:
- The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS): Jørgen Berge (Project leader), Janne Søreide (zooplankton, trophic transfer), Geir Johnsen (Remote sensing, biooptics)
- Norwegian Polar Institute (NP): Stig Falk-Petersen (lipids), Eva Leu (light, ice algae, phytoplankton), Vladimir Pavlov (climate, sea ice, modelling)
- University of Oslo (UiO): Dag O. Hessen (stoichiometry, nutrients, P-cycling)
- Norwegian College of Fishery Sciences (NCFS): Svein Kristiansen (nutrients)
- Scottish Association of Marine Sciences (SAMS, UK): Finlo Cottier (hydrography, mooring data)
- Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAS, Poland): Jozef Wiktor, Magdalena Rozanska (taxonomy of ice algae and phytoplankton), Slawomir Kwasniewski, Agata Weydmann (taxonomy of zooplankton, genetics)
- Göteborg University (GU, Sweden): Angela Wulff (pigments, light stress)
- Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Marine and Polar Research (AWI, Germany): Gerhard Kattner, Martin Graeve (lipids, fatty acid analysis)
- Laboratoire Oceanologique Villefranche (LOV, France): Patrick Mayzaud (lipids, food quality, seasonal dynamics)
- White Sea Research Station, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia): Daria Martynova (food quality effects on zooplankton production)
- University of Manitoba (US): Dave Barber (satellite imaging, ice)