Forskare och besättning arbetar hårt med att göra all utrustning klar för provtagning. Trots det hårda arbetet så är det många som inte kan låta bli att beundra den vackra omgivningen. På vägen upp mot Petermannglaciären har det blivit allt mer is...
Woke up to the sound of pounding rain on the tent roof. Warm and dry in the sleeping bag, but it means a muddy introduction to the work, or worse being grounded until the weather clears. We all eventually crept out of our tents and sat in the...
The weather has cleared but it is still chilly. Yesterday was certainly not wasted. We climbed up the nearest peak and circled round the valley. It is fairly clear that the upper part of the succession is not exclusively marine but rather...
Arctic environments have simple ecosystems, a harsh climate and low human population densities. They are therefore important and useful model systems for evaluating the often complicated ecological effects of climate change. We expect that global...
Oden after passing through a difficult stretch of sea ice. Photo: Martin Jakobsson After leaving Thule Air Base we had a smooth ride up to Smith Sound in Nares Strait where sea ice clogged the entire passage northward. This happened somewhere...
The sun was out as we set off for our collecting trip. We packed wrapping paper, sample bags and small chisels for our assault on the concretions. We were not to be disappointed. The first few hours on the slope yielded well over 100 specimens of...
Today was exhausting but productive. We decided to tackle our second objective, which was to sample the famous “Stegocephalian horizon” on the far side of Stensiö Plateau. This rock layer was the source of numerous temnospondyl amphibian fossils...
Spent the morning resting and packing our fossils for transport back to Sweden. Everything needed to be marked with GPS coordinates, labeled and inventoried so that we have an accurate record for the registers in Uppsala. We have permission from...
We trekked to the far side of Stensiö Plateau today (approximately 4 km) to find an access out onto the north facing cliffs along the coast. We are again trying to locate the “Stegocephalian horizon” to find more fossils of aquatic temnospondyl...
In Hall Land. Photo: Åsa Lindgren After settling our camp in Hall Land, our team started the scientific sampling that is essential to be able to measure the ecosystem structure of this very High Arctic site. We set arthropod traps across a...
Andreas from the University of Delaware, Jari from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Christina the teacher, and Céline (me) from the University of Gothenburg all joined Oden Wednesday last week. Not knowing when our first CTD station...
I måndags när vi flög in över området såg det ut som om det bara bestod av gammal sjöbotten och sten utan vidare biologiskt liv. När vi landat frågade piloten oss vad vi skulle göra i denna stenöken, ”här finns ju inte ett liv”. Just då tänkte...
We worked down river as far as the ice tunnel taking GPS waypoints for the most important outcrops. We located some of the older horizons and found parts of giant ammonite, Otoceras, which would have reached the size of a bicycle tire. Several...
Latitude: 81°4’N Longitude: 61°28’W Speed: 4 knots Temperature: 5 °C We left Thule Air Base about a week ago and after a lot of ice, fantastic views, company from a polar bear and around 40 seals, we finally reached the Petermann...
Today started well with a plan to head downstream along the Blue River to sample the Permian strata on the coast. We also wanted to see if we could access a large valley called Otocerasdal, which was our last target for the fossiliferous...
Myskoxe. Foto: Åsa Lindgren Dagarna går fort i fält. Det tar tid att fixa frukost, gå ner till älven för att diska, packa dagspackningen och ge sig av för att kartlägga ekosystemet som omger oss. Målet med vår forskning är att förstå och förutspå...
After a two-hour flight along the coast through a rainstorm I touched down in the town of Scoresbysund at 01.00 in the morning. I did not know what would happen but I was met by a nurse in a two-seater quad bike and driven straight to the small...
The camp in Hall Land. Photo: Patricia Pecnerova Field work is primarily about research and our effort is to collect as much data as possible but we still need to spend time with everyday duties like cooking and doing the dishes. A special task...
I dag är det söndag och även om varje dag är den samma på så vis att vi arbetar varje dag (och natt) så är ändå varje dag sin egen. Isen, bergen, molnen och ljuset. Allt förändras. På söndagar får vi dessutom efterrätt till middag vilket gör det...
Oden at the entrance of the Petermann Fjord. Photo: Martin Jakobsson After passing the sea ice clogged passage at the southern end of Nares Strait, the transit to Petermann Fjord went quite fast. We had excellent support from the satellite images...
