Cheshtaa ChitkaraUniversity Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) | UNIS · Department of Arctic Biology
Cheshtaa Chitkara
PhD - Arctic Marine Microbiology
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
January 2019 - July 2019
Position
- Manager
Description
- Molecular techniques intern Lab manager temporarily
April 2017 - present
Position
- Intern
Description
- Short term internship on remote sensing, based on identification of SPM in the Macro-tidal estuary - Gironde, using Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2A images. Image processing done with the help of ACOLITE and MATLAB.
June 2016 - July 2016
Position
- Intern
Description
- Internship, based on the understanding of the bleaching of coral reefs in the Indian Ocean.Image processing using FIJI/ IMAGE-J , to calculate the area occupied by various organisms that grow in the coral vicinity.
Education
August 2019 - August 2023
February 2018 - July 2018
September 2017 - January 2018
Publications
Publications (5)
From the evening of June 29th to the evening of July 10th 2018, CAGE at the Department of Geology Uit, the Arctic University of Norway, arranged a scientific cruise aimed at investigating methane seep sites by surface sediment sampling, sediment core sampling, plankton sampling and water sampling. The areas for investigation were the Barents Sea (C...
Background
High primary productivity in the midst of high toxicity defines hydrocarbon seeps; this feature usually results in significantly higher biomass, but in lower diversity communities at seeps rather than in the surrounding non-seep benthos. Qualitative estimates indicate that this dichotomy does not necessarily hold true in high latitude re...
A newly discovered cold seep from the Lofoten-Vesterålen margin (Norwegian Sea) is dominated by the chemosymbiotrophic siboglinid Oligobrachia haakonmosbiensis like other high latitude seeps, but additionally displays uncharacteristic features. Sulphidic bottom water likely prevents colonization by cnidarians and sponges, resulting in fewer taxa th...
