This time the Swedish group was invited to join the Russian operations, whose many field parties covered large areas of northern Svalbard for regional geological mapping in collaboration with the Norwegian Polar Institute. Principal investigator...
The task of the Continental Shelf Project was to acquire the necessary data in order to document an extension of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in accordance with article 76 of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)....
The researchers traveled onboard the S/Y Eltanin from Longyearbyen to southern Nordenskiöld Land, where the fieldwork was conducted from a tent encampment. The so-called Torellian Unconformity was studied for two weeks. The unconformity is a...
The Swedish scientific party on Oden was devoted to studies of oceanography, the biology and chemistry of sea ice and water, the dynamics and evolution of epidemic diseases in seals, and benthic communities. The Swedes on the Palmer team studied...
The goal of this project is to explore rock sections for new mammal fossils. The record of Antarctic mammals is very sparse and new taxa can be expected. Seymour Island is the only ice-free area on the whole continent that exposes Palaeogene...
The atmospheric radar was used in the project to measure aerosols. The aim is to increase our understanding of aerosol processes and waves in the middle atmosphere, and to compare tropospheric aerosols over Antarctica with those over the Arctic....
Using hot water drills, two-kilometre-deep holes were bored in the clear ice to house light detectors for capturing the weak light emitted when neutrinos collide with atoms. The construction of this gigantic structure, in one of the world’s most...
It was the third season in a row icebreaker Oden worked in Antarctica. The basis of the cooperative effort was that NSF chartered Oden from the Swedish Maritime Administration and the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat to break an ice channel to...
Circum-Arctic Tectonic Evolution and Orogeny By collecting samples and analysing the rock types in the Taymyr region, we will determine whether they represent a single large landmass or several smaller earlier ones. We will also find out more...
The RINK project investigated how the ice margin reacted to earlier periods of warming, the interrelationship between sea-ice and sea-level changes and not at least how it affected human adaptation and migration. Even though the interior of the...
LASHIPA 9 was a part of the data collection for the historical-archaeological research project LASHIPA (Large Scale Historical Exploitation of Polar Areas). The objective of the expedition was to collect archaeological data from British mining and...
The general scientific objective focused on Arctic warming and on this fairly unexplored part of the Arctic. Global change has the largest effect in the high Arctic due to the larger excess energy expected, and the northernmost areas will be the...
The Swedish icebreaker Oden served as the research platform, while the actual research areas was selected based on the prevailing ice situation, particularly in the area around the North Pole. Nearly impenetrable ice The expedition was a follow-up...
This makes the Arctic ice caps and ice fields to sensitive regions as potential providers of water to increasing sea levels. This project’s aim was to gather data on atmospheric and glacial processes on Nordenskiöldbreen/Lomonosovfonna,...
When the icebreaker Oden was chartered by the National Science Foundation to break an ice channel to the McMurdo station on the Ross Sea, it opened the door for researchers to conduct trans-disciplinary studies in the remote and inaccessible...
The work during the expedition was planned in close cooperation with the Finnish Antarctic Research Program, FINNARP. Wasa and Svea The Wasa Research Station was built at Vestfjella in Dronning Maud Land during the 1988/89 Antarctic Expedition....
Most studies point to the extensive use of antibiotics in recent decades as the main force driving the development of such resistance. The problem is also being exacerbated by the spread of antibiotics-resistant bacteria and resistance genes....
these studies will be complemented with traditional lab based in vivo and in vitro studies in combination with immunohistological methods for localization and quantification of different putative substances involved in the regulation of the...
One of the great unsolved evolutionary events in deep time relates to the origin and early relationships of the major animal phyla that appeared in the fossil record more that 540 million years ago, during the Cambrian Explosion. Although new...
Moving MARA to different locations makes it possible to study how air is transported and mixed between different heights in the atmosphere under various conditions. The measurements focus on four phenomena: how ice clouds, at a height of 100 km...
