To assess the relationship of radiolarian production, species distribution in water and surface sediment to water-mass characteristics, biological productivity and export regimes in the Sea of Okhotsk (SOk) we accomplished a quantitative analysis of radiolarian

The modern Sea of Okhotsk and the high-latitude glacial ocean share similar radiolarian faunas suggesting they also share environmental similarities. This sea favors deep- (>200 m) over shallow-living species as evidenced by collections of sediment traps

Radiolarian assemblages were analyzed using samples from the IODP Site U1340 to reconstruct the paleoceanographic conditions in the Bering Sea. Based on the characteristic faunal changes, the radiolarian evolution at Site U1340 was divided into four major