Photos from the second leg of SWERUS-C3. Gravity core on deck. Photo: Björn Eriksson Pedro Preto, Stockholm University, in the lab examining a core. Photo: Björn Eriksson Johan Nilsson, Stockholm University, working the CTD. Photo: Björn Eriksson...
Today is bear day. A lady bear and her cub came very close to the ship and sniffed around for a while. So fluffy and sweet looking it’s hard to believe they could kill you. Judging from the appearance they felt more like jungle book style...
Blizzard during the Arctic night, which slowly has begun to be longer. Photo taken in the headlights of Oden. Photo: Martin Jakobsson We reached the Arlis Plateau during the evening on September 1st. The planned multibeam survey could start...
Greetings from researchers and crew onboard the icebreaker Oden in the Arctic Ocean. Second leg participants of SWERUS-C3. Photo: Björn Eriksson
Vi är nu drygt två veckor inne på etapp två av SWERUS-C3-expeditionen. Vi bytte större delen av forskare och besättning i Barrow, Alaska runt den 20 augusti. För oss som reser båda benen och som var kvar ombord under bytet var det en speciell...
Åter har en vecka förflutit i den lunk vi vant oss vid. Provtagning och analyser mest hela dygnet runt. Ibland mer intensivt och ibland mindre. Vi började med att komplettera en sektion som vi började med under den första delen av expeditionen. Då...
Not really sure where we are at the moment, but somewhere further north. I’ve noticed that the nights are getting lighter. We had a gorgeous sunny day (VERY RARE) a while ago and I was hoping for the clear sky to show off a starscape different and...
We have now completed our shelf transects along the East Siberian Sea shelf following the Leg 2 cruise plan. Who could ever dream of that we would be able to complete all that we wrote into the cruise plan? But the fact is that we have! A big part...
Sverige vaknar till en ny dag med en helt förändrad politisk situation om vi fått rätt information. Vi har med stor spänning tagit emot den information som gått att få tag på. Även om vi varit ifrån Sverige under valkampanjen och inte kunde rösta...
Had a scare the day before yesterday when someone told me we wouldn’t see more ice. Open water from now on. Turns out we’re going back north for a rendez-vous with the Lomonosov Ridge though, which thankfully seems to be an icy spot. I really want...
Yesterday, we had visitors from the German research vessel Polarstern. It was a fortuitous meeting since we can coordinate in detail our research efforts here at the southern end of the Lomonosov Ridge – more of good research, and better use of...
-4 ºC och 15 m/s. Havsvattnet är så kallt att det börjar frysa även om det går vågor på vattnet. Foto: Amund E.B. Lindberg 82°36’N, 142°14’E Vi har färdats mer än 4 000 nautiska mil i områden som bara för 100 år sedan var en dröm att färdas i....
Birds close to Oden during one of our sampling stations. This sampling station was the last we made in the very loose pack ice at about 80°30’N, 154ºE before we headed for the southern Lomonosov Ridge working area of Box 4. The birds to the...
Foto: Leif Anderson Senaste veckan har det blivit allt mer tydligt att vintern börjar närma sig. Vi har arbetat oss upp längs Lomonosovryggen i stort sett i helt öppet vatten upp till närmare 85 grader nord. Där stötte vi på iskanten som både...
We reached the sea ice edge over the Lomonosov Ridge at about 85°N 20 September. This location is only 15 nautical miles south from where we crossed the Lomonosov Ridge in 1996 during my first expedition to the Arctic Ocean. It was there we were...
Tomorrow I was supposed to turn 30 years old. Funny thing is that my birthday got canceled as we’re turning the clock 14hrs forward! It’s going to be a very late night tonight and then we’ll do our best to sleep over the time change til monday...
Här kommer mitt sista resebrev från SWERUS-C3. Allt praktiskt forskningsarbete är avslutat och vi har endast resan över en liten bit av Karahavet och Barents hav kvar. Senast på lördag skall vi vara i Tromsö! Exakt när beror på vädret. För några...
Nu färdas vi mot civilisationen. Det är ett litet samhälle, nästan som en liten by, som har färdats genom den Arktiska oceanen. 70 människor har sedan embarkering i Barrow varit våra kollegor, kompisar, vänner och familj. Vid ankomst och...
We should have flown to McMurdo today. Instead: another baking hot summer’s day in Christchurch. Our shuttle to the US Antarctic Program base out at the airport was due to pick us up at 6.15 this morning… then it was 8.15… 11…...
Boarding in Christchurch. Photo: Sarah Greenwood We made it! Boomerang bags were not needed, though it was apparently a close call. We landed on McMurdo Ice Shelf (a tongue of floating ice, a couple of hundred metres’ thick over nearly a...
