Research
I am fascinated by the diversity, systematics and ecology of peracarid crustacea. My recent research employs integrative taxonomy – the combination of morphological and molecular methods to examine the evolutionaly connections between different taxon-groups. Another and important part of my work is to build DNA barcode reference libraries of crustaceans based on the Museum Collections we have here at the University Museum of Bergen.
In my research I very often examine amphipods from “extreme” habitats such as the deep-sea, polar regions or hydrothermal vents. What adjustments do they have to survive in the extreme habitats, and how do they (or don’t they) disperse to other areas? I am also interested in amphipods as symbionts with other taxa, such as mollusks or cnidaria.
I am committee-leader for marine invertebrates (excepting Annelida and Mollusca) for the Norwegian Red Lists, and I work with providing scientific background for national and international managements establishing Marine Protected Areas and with evaluation of Environmentally Important Areas.
I am editor for Amphipoda in WoRMS and for the Norwegian Species Nomenclature Database. I am subject editor for the OA journal Fauna Norvegica. I am the European Governor of the Crustacean Society (TCS) and co-editor of the Amphipod Newsletter.
Outreach
Blog from Norwegian Marine Amphipoda: http://evertebrat.b.uib.no/ #TangloppeTorsdag
Publications
Editorial/Leader article
Radio or TV participation
- Jenny Alversjö; Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Daniel Bengstsson (2026). TV4 Nyhetsdagen: Live från 300 meters djup - nu utforskas Arktis sista vildmark. (external link)
- Paco A. Cárdenas; Anne Helene S. Tandberg (2026). Bulletin from Euronews. "greenpeace in the banana hole". (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Torben Riehl; Martin Päckert (2026). Was ist eine Art? Einfach erklärt für Biologie | Film - planet schule. (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg (2023). Der Schwarm - Die Doku: Welche Bedrohungen lauern im Meer? Begleitdoku zur Thriller-Serie "Der Schwarm". (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg (2023). Wie wird eigentlich der Meeresgrund erforscht?. (external link)
Academic article
- Stefanie Kaiser; Saskia Brix; Andrea Desiderato et al. (2026). Rich to ridges—diversity and composition of benthic Isopoda along a bathymetric gradient from shelf to abyss in the Nordic Seas. (external link)
- Torben Riehl; Monika Böhm; Simone N. Brandão et al. (2026). Marine conservation: linking taxonomy, Red Listing, and public engagement. (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Anna M. Jażdżewska (2026). A new species of Epimeria (Amphipoda, Epimeriidae) from hadal depths in the Aleutian Trench with biogeographic notes of the genus. (external link)
- Lauren Elizabeth Hughes; Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg (2026). Synopiidae Dana, 1853 (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Lauren E. Hughes (2026). Stilipedidae Holmes, 1908 (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. (external link)
- Anna M. Jażdżewska; Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Wiktor Leszczyński (2026). Diversity and connectivity of deep-sea Amphipoda of the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Trench revealed with DNA barcoding. (external link)
- Stefanie Kaiser; Anna M. Jażdżewska; Sarah Gerken et al. (2025). Beyond temperature: predictive modelling of range shifts in benthic peracarids across the northern North Pacific under future climate scenarios. (external link)
- Davide Di Franco; Stefanie Kaiser; Andreas Kelch et al. (2026). Ecological and spatial factors shaping abyssal and hadal peracarid crustacean communities in the eastern Aleutian Trench (NE Pacific). (external link)
- Anne-Nina Lörz; Anne Helene S. Tandberg (2025). North Atlantic Pleustidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) with a focus on cold-water coral associations. (external link)
- Patricia Baena; Andreu Santín; Stefano Ambroso et al. (2025). A deep dive into anthozoan communities of two Antarctic seamounts: a comparative study of Maud Rise and Astrid Ridge. (external link)
- Mari Heggernes Eilertsen; Marte Leane Bleken Klemetsdal; Jon Anders Kongsrud et al. (2025). Faunal communities of Arctic deep-water methane seeps are specialised with links to hydrothermal vents. (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Wim Vader; Bernt Rydland Olsen et al. (2018). Monoculodes bousfieldi sp.n. from the Arctic hydrothermal vent Loki´s Castle. (external link)
- Luis Felipe Martell Hernández; Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Aino Hosia (2018). The illusion of rarity in an epibenthic jellyfish: facts and artefacts in the distribution of Tesserogastria musculosa (Hydrozoa, Ptychogastriidae). (external link)
- Wim Vader; Anne Helene S. Tandberg (2015). Amphipods as associates of other Crustacea: A survey. (external link)
- Maj Arnberg; P Calosi; John I. Spicer et al. (2013). Elevated temperature elicits greater effects than decreased pH on the development, feeding and metabolism of northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) larvae. (external link)
- Lene Buhl-Mortensen; Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Pål Buhl-Mortensen et al. (2016). Behaviour and habitat of Neohela monstrosa (Boeck, 1861) (Amphipoda: Corophiida) in Norwegian Sea deep water. (external link)
- Wim Vader; Jan Roger Johnsen; Anne Helene S. Tandberg (2020). Onisimus turgidus (Sars, 1879) (Amphipoda, Uristidae), an overlooked amphipod from sea anemones in Northern Norway. (external link)
- Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg; Christoffer Schander; Fredrik Pleijel (2010). First record of the association between the amphipod Metopa alderii and the bivalve Musculus. (external link)
- Saskia Brix; Stephanie Kaiser; Anne-Nina Lörz et al. (2022). Habitat variability and faunal zonation at the Aegir Ridge, a canyon-like structure in the deep Norwegian Sea. (external link)
- Ania Jazdzewska; Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg; Tammy Horton et al. (2021). Global gap-analysis of amphipod barcode library. (external link)
- Børge Holte; Mona Maria Fuhrmann; Anne Helene S. Tandberg et al. (2022). Infaunal and epifaunal secondary production in the BarentsSea, with focus on snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio)preyresources and consumption. (external link)
- Anne Helene Tandberg (2009). A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type material. 2. The United States National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). (external link)
- Linse Katrin; Ilka Peeken; Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg (2021). Editorial: Effects of Ice-Loss in Marine Biodiversity. (external link)
- Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg; Hans Tore Rapp; Christoffer Schander et al. (2013). A new species of Exitomelita (Amphipoda: Melitidae) from a deep-water wood fall in the northern Norwegian Sea. (external link)
- Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg; Wim Vader (2023). A New Stenothoid (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Stenothoidae) from a Shallow Water Hydroid Polyp in British Columbia, Canada. (external link)
- Tammy Horton; Claude De Broyer; Denise Bellan-santini et al. (2023). The World Amphipoda Database: History and Progress. (external link)
- Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg; Wim Vader (2009). A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type material. 1. Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (ZMUC). (external link)
- Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg; Wim Vader (2024). Description of a new species of Stenula Barnard, 1962 (Amphipoda: Stenothoidae) from British Columbia, Canada associated with Bouillonia sp. (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Tubulariidae), with a key to the world species of Stenula. (external link)
- Halldis Ringvold; Anne Helene S. Tandberg (2014). A new deepwater species of Calliopiidae: Halirages helgae (Crustacea, Amphipoda), with a synoptic table to Halirages species from the north-east Atlantic. (external link)
- Andrew Lowther; Cecilie von Quillfeldt; Philipp Assmy et al. (2022). A review of the scientific knowledge of the seascape off Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. (external link)
- Mari Heggernes Eilertsen; Jon Anders Kongsrud; Anne Helene S. Tandberg et al. (2024). Diversity, habitat endemicity and trophic ecology of the fauna of Loki’s Castle vent field on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. (external link)
- Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg; Hans Tore Rapp; Christoffer Schander et al. (2012). Exitomelita sigynae gen. et sp. nov.: a new amphipod from the Arctic Loki Castle vent field with potential gill ectosymbionts. (external link)
- Anne-Nina Lörz; Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Endre Willassen et al. (2018). Rhachotropis (Eusiroidea, Amphipoda) from the North East Atlantic. (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Wim Vader (2018). On a new species of Amphilochus from deep and cold Atlanic waters, with a note on the genus Amphilochopsis (Amphipoda, Gammaridea, Amphilochidae). (external link)
- Saskia Brix; Anne-Nina Lörz; Anna M. Jażdżewska et al. (2018). Amphipod family distributions around Iceland. (external link)
- Anne Helene Tandberg; Wim Vader; Jørgen Berge (2010). Studies on the association of Metopa glacialis (Amphipoda, Crustacea) and Musculus discors (Mollusca, Mytilidae). (external link)
- Anne-Nina Lörz; Madita Nack; Anne Helene S. Tandberg et al. (2024). A new deep-sea species of Halirages Boeck, 1871 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Calliopiidae) inhabiting sponges. (external link)
- Anna M. Jażdżewska; Laure Corbari; Amy Driskell et al. (2018). A genetic fingerprint of Amphipoda from Icelandic waters - the baseline for further biodiversity and biogeography studies. (external link)
- Katherine Mary Dunlop; Paul Eric Renaud; Jørgen Berge et al. (2020). Benthic scavenger community composition and carrion removal in Arctic and Subarctic fjords. (external link)
- Thierry Baussant; Katrin Renèe Bechmann; Ingrid Christina Taban et al. (2009). Enzymatic and cellular responses in relation to body burden of PAHs in bivalve molluscs: A case study with chronic levels of North Sea and Barents Sea dispersed oil. (external link)
- Angelika Brandt; Chong Chen; Laura Engel et al. (2024). Ocean Species Discoveries 1–12 — A primer for accelerating marine invertebrate taxonomy. (external link)
- Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg (2009). A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type material. 2. The United States National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). (external link)
- Anne Helene Tandberg (2010). A redescription of Metopa species (Amphipoda, Stenothoidae) based on the type material. 3. Natural History Museum, Oslo (NHM). (external link)
- Angelika Brandt; Chong Chen; Anne Helene S. Tandberg et al. (2023). Complex sublinear burrows in the deep sea may be constructed by amphipods. (external link)
- Eva Ramirez-Llodra; Heidi Kristina Meyer; Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm et al. (2024). The emerging picture of a diverse deep Arctic Ocean seafloor: From habitats to ecosystems. (external link)
- Angelika Brandt; Anna Maria Jazdzewska; Stephanie Kaiser et al. (2024). Community composition and distribution of epi- and suprabenthic macrofauna in the bathyal, abyssal, and hadal zones of the northern North Pacific. (external link)
- James Taylor; Colin Devey; Morgane Le Saout et al. (2021). The Discovery and Preliminary Geological and Faunal Descriptions of Three New Steinahóll Vent Sites, Reykjanes Ridge, Iceland. (external link)
- Jonny Beyer; Nadia Aarab; Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg et al. (2013). Environmental harm assessment of a wastewater discharge from Hammerfest LNG: A study with biomarkers in mussels (Mytilus sp.) and Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). (external link)
- Julia D. Sigwart; Angelika Brandt; Davide Di Franco et al. (2023). Heterogeneity on the abyssal plains: A case study in the Bering Sea. (external link)
- Wim Vader; Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg (2019). Gammarid amphipods (Crustacea) in Norway, with a key to the species. (external link)
- Wim Vader; Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg (2020). Amphipods and sea anemones, an update. (external link)
- Wim Vader; Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg (2013). A survey of amphipods associated with molluscs. (external link)
Report
Non-fiction book chapter
Exhibition production
- Rolf B. Pedersen; Anders Bjerga; Anne Helene S. Tandberg et al. (2019). Det ukjente landet - dyphavet. (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Jørgen Berge; Geir Johnsen et al. (2015). POLARNATT - liv og lyst i mulm og mørke. (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Lena Aarekol (2013). Metopa. (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Hans Tore Rapp; Anders Kjetland et al. (2019). Hvalsalen - Det store mylderet. (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Lena Aarekol (2013). Metopa. (external link)
Popular science book
- Knut Olav Aslaksen; Stine Dornfest; Tonje Engrav et al. (2021). Årbok for Universitetsmuseet 2021. (external link)
- Knut Olav Aslaksen; Haakon Fossen; Anne Helene S. Tandberg et al. (2022). Årbok for Universitetsmuseet 2022. (external link)
- Knut Olav Aslaksen; Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Knut Rio et al. (2025). Årbok for Universitetsmuseet 2025: "200 år". (external link)
- Jo Høyer; Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg; Kari Loe Hjelle et al. (2020). Årbok for Universitetsmuseet 2020. (external link)
Popular science article
- Lill Haugen; Anne Helene S. Tandberg (2016). Amfipoder. På norsk kalles de Tanglopper. (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Wim Vader (2016). Amfipoder, Arktis og Tromsø Museum. (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg (2016). System i galskapen (Essay). (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Luis Felipe Martell Hernández (2018). En uimodstaaelig Lyst til Naturens Studium. (external link)
- Katrine Kongshavn; Manuel Antonio E. Malaquias; Luis Felipe Martell Hernández et al. (2018). Innsamling av marine virvelløse dyr. (external link)
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg (2017). Tangloppeinvasjonen - Dette er en av de 100 verste fremmede arter i Europa. (external link)
Popular science book chapter
- Anne Helene S. Tandberg (2022). Den biologiske tegningen - hvorfor tegner vi fremdeles?. (external link)
- Nicolas Straube; Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Jon Anders Kongsrud (2025). 2019 Nye fisker og virvelløse dyr i Antarktis. (external link)
- Aino Laila Johanna Hosia; Anne Helene S. Tandberg; Nicolas Straube (2025). 2023 Dypdykk med OceanX. (external link)
- Endre Willassen; Anne Helene Solberg Tandberg (2020). Appelløfs blekksprut. (external link)
Academic book chapter
Projects
Norwegian Marine Amphipoda (Funding: Norwegian Species Initiative (Artsdatabanken) )