Lake ”Kap01” close to Kapisillit in the inner part of Nuup Kangerlua Fjord. Photo: Nicolaj K. Larsen How did the Greenland Ice Sheet respond to natural climate change during the last 10,000 years? This question is interesting because by answering...
Digging out and documentation of sediment in a river profile along the Bolshaya Balaknya. Photo: Ívar Örn Benediktsson The Arctic is currently undergoing rapid changes in response to global warming, and there are clear indications that these...
Regional setting and tectonic elements of the Arctic. Note that this is a pre-Tertiary reconstruction in which the Eurasian Basin has not yet opened and the Lomonosov Ridge is restored to its pre-rift position. Colour-coded bathymetry after the...
Steppe bison skull found at Camp 3. Photo: Love Dalén The last Ice Age was a period of well-documented and significant climatic change. As such, it provides an ideal case for investigating the interaction between climate change and species...
Volatile halogenated organic compounds (organohalogens) are ubiquitous trace constituents of the upper oceans and the atmosphere. They play a significant role in atmospheric chemistry and the biogeochemical cycling of the elements chlorine,...
Rosette-CTD used for water sampling. Photo: Melissa Chierici The aim of this project was to quantitatively investigate the mechanisms driving the oceanic carbon dioxide system and the CO2 air–sea flux in areas differentiated by water column...
The sea-ice team using the icecore drill to collect samples of the Antarctic sea ice. Photo: Melissa Chierici The project aimed to provide an understanding of how different sea ice conditions affect the CO2 system and the vertical transport of...
A swift way to collect skin and blubber samples for analyses of genetics and contaminants is to take biopsies skiing. Here a crabeater seal is approached. Photo: Jonas Teilmann This program explores processes involved in the evolution of disease...
The icebreaker Oden is primarily a research platform but it is also a good place to have a coffee and meet new friends. Photo: Björn Eriksson Aerosol black carbon (BC) is emitted during fossil fuel and biomass combustion. BC particles absorb solar...
Circumpolar Antarctic mode and intermediate waters are important routes for the transfer of heat, freshwater and nutrients between high and low latitudes. Data from numerous studies in sub-Antarctic mode and intermediate water formation regions...
The overarching objective of this project was to investigate physical and biogeochemical variability in the Amundsen and Ross Seas, two regions which show contrasting responses to climate change and are perhaps the least sampled in the Southern...
It is confirmed that polar regions are changing rapidly in response to human activities. Changes in sea ice extent and thickness will have profound implications for productivity, food webs and carbon fluxes at high latitudes. Since controls on the...
Cultural heritage or environmental hazard? The South Georgia whaling stations contain important historical information, but also asbestos which makes it necessary to wear protection clothes and masks during field work. Photo: Hamish Laird,...
The figure shows two DOMs on their way down the hole. The water level is about 50 m below the surface. Photo: Mark Krasberg The aim of IceCube The AMANDA collaboration demonstrated during the 1990s the feasibility of using transparent ice at large...
Pulling up a Russian corer from a small lake in southern Greenland. Photo: Nicolaj Krog Larsen. The objective of this project is to investigate how the ice margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet reacted to earlier periods of warming, the...
An 11-month-old female arctic fox. She was ear-tagged in 2008 during the Arctic Sweden expedition. Photo: Tomas Meijer The Swedish mountain range became included in the SWEDARCTIC research programme during the International Polar Year 2007–2008...
Icebergs in Hinlopen strait, leaving Kinnvika after closure of the station, midnight 15 August 2009. Photo: Veijo Pohjola The activities in Kinnvika 2009 Kinnvika was a project within the International Polar Year initiative that focused on both...
Left: Positions of GPS receivers on Nordenskiöldbreen. Right: Map of Spitsbergen, study area marked. Background Lomonosovfonna is an ice field extending over 1 000 km2, situated on the eastern part of Spitsbergen. Several outlet glaciers flow from...
The Airmar 12 kHz transducer is lowered into a melt pond in order to make a bathymetric sounding. Photo: Henriette Skourup Highest priority was given to the acquisition of bathymetric data. Oden is equipped with a permanently mounted Kongsberg...
3D view of the area covered by new multibeam bathymetric data. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO ) is shown as background. The second priority of the cruise was to acquire seismic data in the Amundsen and...
