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Jonas Thormar

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Chief Engineer/ Senior Engineer
Telephone: 40056708
Department: Bunnsamfunn

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Methods:

  • Diving (Surface supplied and Scuba)
  • ROV and tow-cams
  • Remote Sensing (RGB and Hyperspectral imagery, LIDAR)
  • Stereo-Video (RUV - Remove Underwater Video & BRUV - Baited Remote Underwater Video)
  • Implementation of computer vision for habitat mapping and video analysis of fish and habitat.
    • "CoastVision"
    • "The Legacy of Dannevig - a coastal observatory at Torungen"

Publications

Academic articles

2024

Carbon stocks in Norwegian eelgrass meadows across environmental gradients

Karine Gagnon, Jonas Thormar, Stein Fredriksen, Maria Potouroglou, Jon Albretsen, Hege Gundersen, Kasper Hancke, Eli Rinde, Cecilie Linn Wathne, Kjell Magnus Norderhaug
Scientific Reports 14
2024

A Latitudinal Cline in the Taxonomic Structure of Eelgrass Epifaunal Communities is Associated With Plant Genetic Diversity

Collin P. Gross, J. Emmett Duffy, Kevin A. Hovel, Pamela L. Reynolds, Christoffer Boström, Katharyn E. Boyer, Mathieu Cusson, Johan Eklöf, Aschwin H. Engelen, Britas Klemens Eriksson, F. Joel Fodrie, John N. Griffin, Clara M. Hereu, Masakazu Hori, A. Randall Hughes, Mikhail V. Ivanov, Pablo Jorgensen, Melissa R. Kardish, Claudia Kruschel, Kun-Seop Lee, Jonathan Lefcheck, Karen McGlathery, Per-Olav Moksnes, Masahiro Nakaoka, Mary I. O'Connor, Nessa E. O'Connor, Jeanine L. Olsen, Robert J. Orth, Bradley J. Peterson, Henning Reiss, Francesca Rossi, Jennifer Ruesink, Erik E. Sotka, Jonas Thormar, Fiona Tomas, Richard Unsworth, Erin P. Voigt, Matthew A. Whalen, Shelby L. Ziegler, John J. Stachowicz
Global Ecology and Biogeography
2022

The biogeography of community assembly: latitude and predation drive variation in community trait distribution in a guild of epifaunal crustaceans

Colin P. Gross, Emmett Duffy, Kevin A Hovel, Melissa R Kardish, Pamela L. Reynolds, Christoffer Boström, Katharyn Boyer, Mathieu Cusson, Johan Eklöf, Aschwin H. Engelen, Britas Klemens Eriksson, F. Joel Fodrie, John N. Griffin, Clara M. Hereu, Masakazu Hori, A. Randall Hughes, Mikhail V. Ivanov, Pablo Jorgensen, Claudia Kruschel, Kun-Seop Lee, Jonathan Lefcheck, Karen McGlathery, Per-Olav Moksnes, Masahiro Nakaoka, Mary I. O'Connor, Nessa E O'Connor, Jeanine L. Olsen, Robert J Orth, Bradley J. Peterson, Henning Reiss, Francesca Rossi, Jennifer Ruesink, Erik E. Sotka, Jonas Thormar, Fiona Tomas, Richard Unsworth, Erin P Voigt, Matthew A. Whalen, Shelby L Ziegler, John J. Stachowicz
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences 289
2022

Effects of depth and overgrowth of ephemeral macroalgae on a remote subtidal NE Atlantic eelgrass (Zostera marina) community

Susanne Baden, Stein Fredriksen, Hartvig C Christie, Louise Eriander, Camilla Gustafsson, Marianne Holmer, Birgit Olesen, Jonas Thormar, Christoffer Boström
Marine Pollution Bulletin 177
2022

Nordic Blue Carbon Ecosystems: Status and Outlook

Dorte Krause-Jensen, Hege Gundersen, Mats Björk, Martin Gullström, Martin Dahl, Maria E. Asplund, Christoffer Boström, Marianne Holmer, Gary T. Banta, Anna Elizabeth Løvgren Graversen, Morten Foldager Pedersen, Trine Bekkby, Helene Frigstad, Solrun Figenschau Skjellum, Jonas Thormar, Steen Gyldenkærne, Jennifer Howard, Emily Pidgeon, Sunna Björk Ragnarsdóttir, Agnes Mols-Mortensen, Kasper Hancke
Frontiers in Marine Science 9
2022

A Pleistocene legacy structures variation in modern seagrass ecosystems

J. Emmett Duffy, John J. Stachowicz, Pamela L. Reynolds, Kevin A. Hovel, Marlene Jahnke, Erik E. Sotka, Christoffer Boström, Katharyn E. Boyer, Mathieu Cusson, Johan Eklöf, Aschwin H. Engelen, Britas Klemens Eriksson, F. Joel Fodrie, John N Griffin, Clara M. Hereu, Masakazu Hori, A. Randall Hughes, Mikhail V. Ivanov, Pablo Jorgensen, Claudia Kruschel, Kun-Seop Lee, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Per-Olav Moksnes, Masahiro Nakaoka, Mary I. O’Connor, Nessa E. O’Connor, Robert J. Orth, Bradley J. Peterson, Henning Reiss, Katrin Reiss, J. Paul Richardson, Francesca Rossi, Jennifer L. Ruesink, Stewart T. Schultz, Jonas Thormar, Fiona Tomas, Richard Unsworth, Erin Voigt, Matthew A. Whalen, Shelby L. Ziegler, Jeanine L. Olsen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119
2021

Coastal Research Seen Through an Early Career Lens—A Perspective on Barriers to Interdisciplinarity in Norway

Anne Deininger, Angela Helen Martin, Juan Pardo, Paul Ragnar Berg, Jyotirmoy Bhardwaj, Diana Sofia de Oliveira Catarino, Albert Fernández-Chacón, Karen Agatha Martinez-Swatson, Kotaro Ono, Rebekah Alice Oomen, Marte Sodeland, Tonje Knutsen Sørdalen, Ann-Elin Synnes, Susanna Huneide Thorbjørnsen, Jonas Thormar
Frontiers in Marine Science 8
2020

Ecosystem-level effects of large-scale disturbance in kelp forests

KM Norderhaug, K Filbee-Dexter, Carla Freitas, Sten Richard Birkely, Lene Christensen, Ida Kristin Mellerud, Jonas Thormar, Thijs Christiaan van Son, Frithjof Emil Moy, M. Vázquez Alonso, Henning Steen
Marine Ecology Progress Series 656 p. 163-180
2020

Marine heatwaves and the collaps of marginal North Atlantic kelp forests

Karen Filbee-Dexter, Thomas Wernberg, S.P. Grace, Jonas Thormar, Stein Fredriksen, C.N. Narvaez, C.J. Feehan, Kjell Magnus Norderhaug
Scientific Reports 10
2018

Latitude, temperature, and habitat complexity predict predation pressure in eelgrass beds across the Northern Hemisphere

Pamela L. Reynolds, John J. Stachowicz, Kevin Hovel, Christoffer Boström, Katharyn Boyer, Mathieu Cusson, Johan S. Eklöf, Friederike G Engel, Aschwin H. Engelen, Britas Klemens Eriksson, F Joel Fodrie, John Griffin, Clara M Hereu, Masakazu Hori, Torrance C Hanley, Mikhail Ivanov, Pablo Jorgensen, Claudia Kruschel, Kun-Seop Lee, Karen McGlathery, Per-Olav Moksnes, Masahiro Nakaoka, Mary I. O'Connor, Nessa E O'Connor, Robert J Orth, Francesca Rossi, Jennifer L. Ruesink, Erik E. Sotka, Jonas Thormar, Fiona Tomas, Richard K.F. Unsworth, Matthew A. Whalen, J. Emmett Duffy
Ecology 99 p. 29-35
2016

Eelgrass (Zostera marina) food web structure in different environmental settings

Jonas Thormar, Harald Hasler-Sheetal, Susanne Baden, Christoffer Boström, Kevin Kuhlmann Clausen, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Birgit Olesen, Jonas Ribergaard Rasmussen, Carl Johan Svensson, Marianne Holmer
PLOS ONE 11
2016

Small-scale removal of seagrass (Zostera marina L.): effects on the infaunal community

Marc Jürgen Silberberger, Jonas Thormar, Stein Fredriksen
Marine Biology Research 12 p. 993-1002
2015

Biodiversity mediates top-down control in eelgrass ecosystems: a global comparative-experimental approach

J. Emmett Duffy, Pamela L. Reynolds, Christoffer Boström, James A. Coyer, Mathieu Cusson, Serena Donadi, James G. Douglass, Johan S. Eklöf, Aschwin H. Engelen, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Stein Fredriksen, Lars Gamfeldt, Camilla Gustafsson, Galice Hoarau, Masakazu Hori, Kevin Hovel, Katrin Iken, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Per-Olav Moksnes, Masahiro Nakaoka, Mary I. O'Connor, Jeanine L. Olsen, J. Paul Richardson, Jennifer L. Ruesink, Erik E. Sotka, Jonas Gjaldbæk Thormar, Matthew A. Whalen, John J. Stachowicz
Ecology Letters 18 p. 696-705
2012

Meristoderes gen. nov., a new kinorhynch genus, with the description of two new species and their implications for echinoderid phylogeny (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida, Echinoderidae)

María Herranz, Jonas Thormar, Jesús Benito, Nuria Sánchez, Fernando Pardos
Zoologischer Anzeiger 251 p. 161-179
2010

Wollunquaderes majkenae gen. et sp. nov. - a new cyclorhagid kinorhynch genus and species from the Coral Sea, Australia

Sørensen MV & Thormar J
Marine Biodiversity 40 p. 261-275
2010

Two new species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) from the Solomon Islands

Thormar J & Sørensen MV
Meiofauna Marina 18 p. 67-96
2008

Vertical migration in high Arctic waters during autumn 2004

Stig Falk-Petersen, Eva Leu, Jørgen Berge, Slawomir Kwasniewski, Henrik Nygård, Anders Røstad, Essi Keskinen, Jonas Thormar, Cecilie von Quillfeldt, Anette Wold, Bjørn Gulliksen
Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 55 p. 2275-2284
2007

Sympagic amphipods in the Arctic pack ice: redescriptions of Eusirus holmii Hansen, 1887 and Pleusymtes karstensi (Barnard, 1959)

Martin Macnaughton, Jonas Thormar, Jørgen Berge
Polar Biology 30 p. 1013-1025
2005

Myxine jespersenae, A New Species of Hagfish (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae) from the North Atlantic Ocean

Møller PR, Feld TK, Poulsen IH, Thomsen PF, Thormar JG
Copeia (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) 2005(2) p. 374-385

Scientific lectures

2019

Phasing in use of the “Nature in Norway” (NiN) system for classification and description of nature in the marine environment – experiences, challenges and international relevance.

Margaret Dolan, Trine Bekkby, Pål Buhl-Mortensen, Guri Sogn Andersen, Thijs Christiaan van Son, Jonas Thormar, Lise Ann Tveiten, Reidulv Bøe, Anne Britt Storeng, Anders Bryn, Rune Halvorsen

Poster

2018

Pilot Project for Mapping Marine Nature Types within the NiN Framework, Coastal Norway

Margaret Dolan, Trine Bekkby, Sigurd Heiberg Espeland, Eli Rinde, Frithjof Emil Moy, Sigrid Elvenes, Hege Gundersen, Thijs Christiaan van Son, Guri Sogn Andersen, Jonas Thormar, Helene Frigstad, Siri Røang Moy, Bjørnar Beylich, Jon Albretsen, Lars Johan Naustvoll, Lise Ann Tveiten
2017

Fish Assemblages in Coastal Vegetation

Jonas Thormar, Henning Steen, Thijs Christiaan van Son, Sebastian Bosgraaf, Lene Christensen, Ida Kristin Mellerud, Frithjof Emil Moy, Kjell Magnus Norderhaug
2013

Benthic communities at the opera in Bjørvika

A Andersen, Jonas Thormar, KM Norderhaug, Stein Fredriksen
2004

Intense feeding of Calanus hyperboreus on Arctic Autumn Bloom Propagated by a Record Minimum Sea Ice Extent in 2004

Stig Falk-Petersen, A Wold, A Røstad, E Leu, H Nygård, Bjørn Gulliksen, Jørgen Berge, E Keskinen, J. Gjaldbæk Thormar, S Kwasniewski

Reports and dissertations

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New findings of diel vertical migration in high Arctic ecosystems

Keskinen E, Leu E, Nygård H, Røstad A, Thormar J (2004)
In: Berge J (ed) AB320-2004. UNIS Publication Series ISSN 1503-4410.
2023

Summary report of datasets acquired for the purpose of method development within the Marine Base Maps for the Coastal Zone (Marine grunnkart i kystsonen) project at Fjøløy and Klosterøy, Stavanger, Norway

Alexandre Schimel, Jonas Thormar, Ivar Oveland, Terje Thorsnes, Sigrid Elvenes, Tobias Herbert Kurz, Helge Welde
NGU-rapport
2023

Metodehåndbok marint. Kartleggingsmetodikk og variabler (NiN 3.0)

Trine Bekkby, Guri Sogn Andersen, Margaret Dolan, Eli Rinde, Jonas Thormar, Barbro Taraldset Haugland, Thijs Christiaan van Son, Anders Bryn
2023

ØKOKYST – delprogram Skagerrak. Årsrapport 2022, M-2579

Elisabeth Lundsør, Tone Falkenhaug, Jonas Thormar, Frithjof Emil Moy, Lars Johan Naustvoll
2023

Hovedveileder for feltbasert kartlegging. Terrestrisk, limnisk og marin naturvariasjon etter NiN (3.0).

Anders Bryn, Guri Sogn Andersen, Trine Bekkby, Harald Bratli, Børre Kind Dervo, Margaret Dolan, Rune Halvorsen, Barbro Taraldset Haugland, Peter Horvath, Adam Eindride Naas, Thijs Christiaan van Son, Jonas Thormar, Anders Kvalvåg Wollan, Peggy Zinke
2022

Økokyst – delprogram Skagerrak. Årsrapport 2021. M-2280|2022

Elisabeth Lundsør, Tone Falkenhaug, Jonas Thormar, Frithjof Emil Moy, Lars Johan Naustvoll
2022

Forslag til metodikk for å vurdere økologisk kvalitet for lokaliteter av forvaltningsrelevante marine naturenheter

Trine Bekkby, Eli Rinde, Kristina Øie Kvile, Marijana Stenrud Brkljacic, Jonas Thormar, Marit Mjelde, Janne Kim Gitmark, Siri Røang Moy, Susanne Claudia Schneider, Eivind Oug
2022

Metoder for kartlegging av oppvekstområder for kystnære bestander av fisk

Sigurd Heiberg Espeland, Kjell Magnus Norderhaug, Jonas Thormar, Portia Joy Nillos Kleiven, Inger Aline Norberg Aanonsen, Jostein Saltskår, Terje Jørgensen, Lene Christensen, Terje van der Meeren, Stian Stiansen, Odd Børre Humborstad
2021

Økokyst – delprogram Klima, årsrapport 2020

Lars Johan Naustvoll, Jonas Thormar, Elisabeth Lundsør, Tone Falkenhaug, Tone Kroglund, Frithjof Emil Moy
2021

Forslag til forvaltningsrelevante marine naturenheter

Trine Bekkby, Eli Rinde, Eivind Oug, Pål Buhl-Mortensen, Jonas Thormar, Margaret Dolan, Marit Mjelde, Janne Kim Gitmark, Siri Røang Moy, Susanne Claudia Schneider, Genoveva Gonzales-Mirelis, Geir Helge Rødli Systad, Thijs Christiaan van Son
2021

Forslag til forvaltningsrelevante marine naturenheter

Trine Bekkby, Eli Rinde, Eivind Oug, Pål Buhl-Mortensen, Jonas Thormar, Margaret Dolan, Marit Mjelde, Janne Kim Gitmark, Siri Røang Moy, Susanne Claudia Schneider, Genoveva Gonzales-Mirelis, Geir Helge Rødli Systad, Thijs Christiaan van Son
2021

Blue Carbon – climate adaptation, CO2 uptake and sequestration of carbon in Nordic blue forests. Results from the Nordic Blue Carbon Project.

Helene Frigstad, Hege Gundersen, Guri Sogn Andersen, Gunhild Borgersen, Kristina Øie Kvile, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Christoffer Boström, Trine Bekkby, Marc Anglès d'Auriac, Anders Ruus, Jonas Thormar, Kaya Asdal, Kasper Hancke
2021

Krafttak for kysttorsken - Kunnskap for stedstilpasset gjenoppbygging av bestander, naturtyper og økosystem i Færder- og Ytre Hvaler nasjonalparker

Even Moland, Ann-Elin Synnes, Lars Johan Naustvoll, Carla Freitas, Kjell Magnus Norderhaug, Jonas Thormar, Martin Biuw, Per Erik Jorde, Halvor Knutsen, Geir Dahle, Anders Jelmert, Sebastian Bosgraaf, Esben Moland Olsen, Anne Deininger, Atle Haga
2020

ØKOKYST – delprogram Klima. Årsrapport 2019

Lars Johan Naustvoll, Jonas Thormar, Elisabeth Lundsør, Tone Kroglund, Kjell Magnus Norderhaug, Frithjof Emil Moy
2020

Biomassemodell for stortare - Ressursmodell for fremtidens forvaltning

Kjell Magnus Norderhaug, Thijs Christiaan van Son, Nikolaos Nikolioudakis, Jonas Thormar, Frithjof Emil Moy, Jan Atle Knutsen, Sigrid Elvenes, Henning Steen
2020

Nasjonal kartlegging – kyst 2019. Ny revisjon av kriterier for verdisetting av marine naturtyper og nøkkelområder for arter

Trine Bekkby, Eli Rinde, Sigurd Heiberg Espeland, Heidi Anita Olsen, Jonas Thormar, Ellen Sofie Grefsrud, Reidulv Bøe, Carla Freitas, Frithjof Emil Moy
2019

ØKOKYST - delprogram Klima. Årsrapport 2018.

Lars Johan Naustvoll, Elisabeth Lundsør, Jonas Thormar, Kjell Magnus Norderhaug, Tone Kroglund, Frithjof Emil Moy
2019

Feltveileder for Kartlegging av marin naturvariasjon etter NiN (2.2.0).

Guri Sogn Andersen, Trine Bekkby, Margaret Dolan, Reidulv Bøe, Jonas Thormar, Pål Buhl-Mortensen, Sigrid Elvenes, Lars Johan Naustvoll, Marit Mjelde, Tor Erik Brandrud, Eli Rinde, Anders Bryn
2018

Pilotprosjekt - Kartlegging av marin natur i Møre og Romsdal: Årsrapport 2017

Trine Bekkby, Sigurd Heiberg Espeland, Margaret Dolan, Eli Rinde, Frithjof Emil Moy, Sigrid Elvenes, Hege Gundersen, Thijs Christiaan van Son, Guri Sogn Andersen, Jonas Thormar, Helene Frigstad, Siri Røang Moy, Bjørnar Beylich, Jon Albretsen, Lars Johan Naustvoll, Lise Ann Tveiten
2017

Disturbance and trophic interactions in Scandinavian eelgrass ecosystems

Thormar, Jonas
2008

The Rhodoliths of Disko Fjord, Greenland: First visual record of the Litothamnion glaciale/tophiforme (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) aggregation in Disko Fjord, 69°N, Greenland

Thormar, J
In: Halberg KA (ed) Arctic Biology Field Course, Qeqertarsuaq, 2006. Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen.
2005

Biological state of arctic lakes and ponds on Disko Island, Greenland

Christoffersen K, Thormar J, Bille-Hansen R
Arctic fieldcourse 2004. Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen. ISBN 87-987317-2-6
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