The view is magnificent when you reach the ice edge and can see the open water. Photo: Fredrik Jutfelt Like amphibians, reptiles, and all invertebrates, fish are ectotherms whose body temperatures are determined by the ambient temperature. Many...
The container to house the MARA electronics was moved into place by the Norwegian logistics team. Photo: Sheila Kirkwood Do we really understand the global circulation of the upper 60–100 km of the atmosphere? Do small-scale processes cause...
The Wasa Research Station. Photo: Cecilia Selberg Environmental mapping of the Wasa Research Station in Antarctica began this season. This effort was initiated to incorporate the research station into the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat’s...
Grab-and-run sampling while the helicopter is waiting at Cuvervillefjellet, Sørkapp Land. Photo: Henning Lorenz The Neoproterozoic Orogeny in the Arctic (NOA-Svalbard) project investigates rocks affected by or originated during Neoproterozoic...
Figure 1: Mesozoic deformation in Taymyr. Deformation across Taymyr may be diachronous, synchronous, or separate in time from Verkhoyansk deformation. DFB, foldbelt; SZ, Severnaya Zemlya. Our 2010 (east) and 2012 (west) study areas = white...
Logging of sediment profile along Luktakh River. Photo: Johanna Anjar The Arctic is currently undergoing rapid and pervasive change, and the mechanisms driving climate change in northern latitudes appear to be gaining strength. As a result,...
Kenneth Sorento, right, and Martin Breum at the North Pole 22 August 2012. The media team was invited on board to cover the expedition and science as independent observers. During the cruise, Kenneth Sorento and Martin Breum implemented joint as...
Göran Thor and a transect at Steinnabben. Photo: Calle Lundberg How does human activity affect biodiversity in continental Antarctica? In this harsh environment, biological processes are slow, which means that native biodiversity can easily be...
King penguins. Photo: Jonas Bonnedahl This project seeks to determine the extent to which the current development of antibiotic resistance and its environmental spread have affected remote natural environments far from human activity. Most...
In 2013, Physics World editors called the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of cosmic origin the physics breakthrough of the year. This discovery was made at the IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole. IceCube is currently the world’s...
Neumayer-Station III. Photo: Swedish Polar Research Secretariat Last season the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat began maintenance work on Wasa Research Station and its equipment, including the tracked all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles. The...
Weather balloon with an ozone sonde ready for release. Photo: Sheila Kirkwood To better predict the future climate over Antarctica, researchers from IRF examines how small-scale processes transport and mix air between different heights in the...
The fossil skull fixed and packaged for transport. Thomas Mörs posing beside it. Photo: Thomas Mörs What are the origins of Antarctic Paleogene terrestrial mammals, and do their biodiversity patterns reflect a severe cooling 65–30 Ma? It is still...
Water fleas of the species Calanus hyperboreus. Photo: Pauline Snoeijs Leijonmalm The aim of this project is to better understand the structure and function of the plankton communities in the Arctic Ocean, and how they are related to various water...
The Arctic sea ice with melt ponds. Photo: Pauline Snoeijs Leijonmalm Sampling large amounts of water in and beneath the sea ice. Photo: Pauline Snoeijs Leijonmalm Very little is known about the microbial communities that dominate the Arctic sea...
Jack Schilling and Markus Karasti handled the 1.5 ton piston corer on Oden’s fan tail. Photo: Björn Eriksson How and why has Arctic sea ice cover varied in the recent geologic past? In the project Palaeoceanography of the Arctic – Water...
Ear-tagged Arctic fox on a windy day in June 2011. Photo: Gustaf Samelius This study examines various aspects of the population dynamics of arctic foxes and how they vary with fluctuations in lemming abundance – the main food of arctic foxes in...
Ylva Sjöberg taking notes near the radar equipment. Photo: Kilian Krüger How does the extent of the permafrost affect groundwater flow paths at different times of the year? The ground in the Arctic is largely frozen year round, so the groundwater...
Abandoned research station, Deception Island – a source of historical knowledge about the conditions of Antarctic research. Photo: Dag Avango There is increasing interest in the economic potential of polar areas for tourism and natural resource...
Satheesan Karathazhiyath prepares a payload for a balloon flight for studies of atmospheric parameters in the troposphere and stratosphere. Photo: Peter Dalin Do we really understand the global circulation of the upper atmosphere, i.e., at heights...
