Each year several tonnes of mercury end up in the Arctic Ocean. This mercury is transported from more southerly latitudes with the wind. In the Arctic it is converted into methyl mercury. Once in the water it’s absorbed by algae and...
This summer, a Swedish oceanography team will participate in the PS106 expedition on board the German research vessel Polarstern in the Arctic Ocean. The expedition consists of two legs, taking place southwest of the Nansen Basin and over the...
This summer, researchers from Umeå University will go to Svalbard to investigate how vegetation at high latitudes is responding to the exclusion of grazing animals. Read more about the expedition
This summer, a Russian-Swedish research expedition will be conducted to far east Siberia in the Russian Arctic to study the effects of climate change on Arctic ecosystems. The Arctic islands project studies the consequences of climate change for...
This summer researchers will work at Sorgfjorden, Svalbard, to develop methods of archaeological field research in the polar regions. The project will test these methods by documenting the archaeological remains of the Swedish-Russian...
This summer, a researcher from Uppsala University will participate in a German geological expedition to Ellesemere Island, Canada. Read about the expedition to Ellesmere Island
I sommar åker en forskningsexpedition till två isolerade platser i ryska Arktis för att undersöka klimatförändringarnas konsekvenser. Anders Angerbjörn från Stockholms universitet berättar att den snabba klimatförändringen vi har idag gör att...
1899–1902 ägde den svensk-ryska gradmätningsexpeditionen rum vid Sorgfjorden på Svalbard. Nu, mer än 100 år senare, ska svenska forskare tillbaka för att se vad som finns kvar och göra om mätningarna. Dag Avango från KTH berättar att en av de...
This summer, a researcher from Stockholm University returns to Brooks Range in Alaska for geological sampling that can help us understand how the Arctic was formed. Read about the expedition to Brooks Range
Emelie Axelsson från Stockholms universitet ska åka till Brooks Range i norra Alaska för att hämta sedimentära bergarter. Emelie berättar att dessa bergarter har bildats på havsbotten och beroende på vilka kontinenter som har funnits runt...
I sommar har forskare åkt till två isolerade platser i ryska Arktis för att undersöka klimatförändringarnas konsekvenser. Rasmus Erlandsson från Stockholms universitet berättar att han är ansvarig för insamlingen på Tjaun som är på fastlandet i...
On Wednesday, the Swedish, Slovak and Portuguese Arctic islands participants flew from Stockholm, via Saint Petersburg to Moscow. The next day it was time to start the long journey across Russia – from the capital in the southwest to Asia’s...
The Sorgfjorden expedition leaves port of Longyearbyen in excellent weather and with high expectations! pic.twitter.com/KBG26VMyBM — Dag Avango (@DagAvango) July 10, 2017
Saturday 8 July Most of the expedition team arrived in Longyearbyen on Saturday July 8 and met for dinner. Our discussion over the dinner table was not the most encouraging talk to have at the beginning of an expedition. We had just received some...
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In the morning hours it was time for our first research task – to survey a site called Bjørnhamna, consisting of a former claim- and hunters hut on a cape at the northwestern corner of Spitsbergen. The objective of this survey was to gather...
Wednesday 12 July Our first full workday consisted of us working in three teams – one team doing qualitative descriptions of the features, and one team doing measurements with a total station and photo descriptions. The geodesists started their...
Saturday 15 July Finally, the sun popped out and the Saturday turned into one of the best days of the entire expedition in terms of weather. We compensated for the two past days by working extra hard on the tasks that had previously been made...
This Monday was our final day at the Sorgfjorden station site and therefore a day to finish up with all remaining documentation tasks there. In addition we needed to survey three additional sites in the surrounding area. Quite a lot for only one...
Tuesday 18 July Our next and final site was Polhem, built under the leadership of the Swedish scientist-explorer AE Nordensköld in 1872. Our main purpose was to document a cairn which the Arc-of-the-Meridian expedition used in its triangulations....
