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We thank the IODP European Science Operator (ESO), led by the British Geological Survey; the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, who provided shiptime for Oden as well as the ice and fleet management; icebreaker Captains Årnell, Backman, Davidjan, Haave, Shirley, Smith and Vikström, and the crews of Oden, Vidar Viking and Sovetskiy Soyuz; and Seacore Ltd, who provided the drilling services. This research used samples and data provided by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. Author Contributions J.B. was the lead investigator on the ACEX proposal to IODP. K.M. and J.B. conducted much of the project planning with support from J.F. J.B. and K.M. led the expedition. Ship- and shore-based core analyses were conducted by the IODP 302 science party (H.B., S.C.C., T.C., G.R.D., F.E., J.G., M.J., R.W.J., M.K., J.K., N.K., A.K., N.M., J.M., T.C.M., D.M., J.O., M.O., H.P., B.R., D.R., T.S., D.C.S., R.S., K.S., I.S., N.S., K.T., M.W. and M.Y.). Additional sediment analyses were conducted by M.F. and P.K. Geophysical data were collected and analysed by W.J. and Y.K.

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  1. Graduate School of Oceanography & Department of Ocean Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, 02882, USA

    Kathryn Moran

  2. Department of Ocean Engineering, University of Rhode Island,

    Kathryn Moran

  3. Department of Geology & Geochemistry, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jan Backman & Martin Jakobsson

  4. Laboratory of Palaeobotany & Palynology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 DC, The Netherlands

    Henk Brinkhuis

  5. Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA

    Steven C. Clemens

  6. US Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, 20192, USA

    Thomas Cronin

  7. Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 77251, USA

    Gerald R. Dickens

  8. Département de Géologie et Océanographie, Université Bordeaux, Talence, 33405, France

    Frédérique Eynaud

  9. Department of Geophysics, CEREGE (CNRS), France, 13545, Aix-en-Provence

    Jérôme Gattacceca

  10. Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Yamagata University, Yamagata, 990-8560, Japan

    Richard W. Jordan

  11. Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Michael Kaminski

  12. Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, 02882, Narragansett, USA

    John King, Matthew O'Regan, David C. Smith & John Farrell

  13. Norwegian Polar Institute, Polar Environmental Center, Tromsø, 9296, Norway

    Nalan Koc

  14. Department of Lithology & Geochemistry, VNIIOkeangeologia, St Petersburg, 190121, Russia

    Alexey Krylov

  15. Earth Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, USA

    Nahysa Martinez

  16. Alfred Wegener Institute Foundation for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, D-27515, Germany

    Jens Matthiessen, Ruediger Stein & Wilfried Jokat

  17. British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, Murchison House, EH9 3LA, UK

    David McInroy

  18. Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA

    Theodore C. Moore

  19. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan

    Jonaotaro Onodera & Kozo Takahashi

  20. National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK

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  21. Department of Geography & Environment, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF, UK

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  22. Department of Geology, Paleontology & Geophysics, University of Padova, Padova, 35137, Italy

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  23. Institute for Research on Earth Evolution (IFREE), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, 237-0061, Japan

    Tatsuhiko Sakamoto

  24. Department of Geology & Environmental Science, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 22807, USA

    Kristen St John

  25. Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Chikusa, 464-8602, Japan

    Itsuki Suto

  26. Institute of Geology & Paleontology, Tohoku University, Sendai City, 980-8578, Japan

    Noritoshi Suzuki

  27. Institute of Geoscience, Geological Survey of Japan, Ibaraki, 305-8567, Japan

    Mahito Watanabe

  28. Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan

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  29. Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, 24148, Germany

    Martin Frank

  30. Paul Scherrer Institute, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zurich, CH-8093, Switzerland

    Peter Kubik

  31. Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Allegaten 41, N-5007, Norway

    Yngve Kristoffersen

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Moran, K., Backman, J., Brinkhuis, H. et al. The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean. Nature 441, 601–605 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04800

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  • Received: 04 August 2005

  • Accepted: 13 April 2006

  • Issue Date: 01 June 2006

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04800