Archaeological excavation of a 5 200 year old settlement close to Lake Luspasjaure in the county of Västerbotten. Photo: Thomas B. Larsson The general trends in climate development over the past 10 000 years are relatively well known for...
Archaeological excavation of a 5 200 year old settlement close to Lake Luspasjaure in the county of Västerbotten. Photo: Thomas B. Larsson The aim of the archaeological project is threefold: to explore a new method of aerial surveillance of...
Rock sampling from erratic boulder with hammer and chisel at the outer coast near Sarqarssuaq. Photo: Nicolaj K. Larsen The objective of this project is to investigate how the ice margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet reacted to earlier periods of...
Oden anchored in the pack ice to the ice floe where ASCOS stayed for almostthree weeks, drifting with the ice. Photo: Thorsten Mauritsen To enhance our understanding of clouds in the Arctic climate system, the project Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean...
A clone of Alnus fruticosa on a mountain slope, Karaginsky Island. Photo: Kerstin Huss-Danell. Plants are always in contact with a huge number of microbes, above and below the soil surface. Some of these microbes are beneficial, others are...
Snowmobiles are nessesary for safe transportation. Photo: Veijo Pohjola Kinnvika is a project within the International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY) initiative that focuses on both Arctic warming and on this fairly unexplored part of the Arctic. The...
The variability of salinity (S), sea surface temperature (SST, °C), chlorophyll a fluorescence (chl, μg/L) and oxygen (μmol/kg) along the cruise track. Indications (dotted lines) show the approximate locations of the Sub Antarctic Zone (SAZ),...
Map of Dronning Maud Land showing existing and possible future seismographic stations. Introduction In December 2006, a seismic recording station was deployed at the Swedish research facility Svea in western Dronning Maud Land (DML). This project...
Time series of 1-minute data from 17 to 21 December 2006 for partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2, ppm), dissolved oxygen (O2, μmol/kg) and chlorophyll-a fluorescence (Chl a, μg/l). Special features (phytoplankton bloom and upwelling) are...
Sven Lidström, the first Swede to overwinter at the South Pole for 40 years. Photo: Tomas Gustafsson. During the 1990s, the AMANDA collaboration demonstrated the feasibility of using transparent ice at large depths in Antarctica for neutrino...
Hans Nilsson and Ingemar Wolf at work setting up the MARA antenna field. Photo: Hans Nilsson. MARA is an atmospheric radar which measures echoes from dusty plasma close to the summer mesopause (80–90 km heights), and from small-scale structures in...
Refuelling the POLAR 2 aircraft during a stop at Kohnen station at almost 3 km altitude on the Antarctic continental ice sheet. Aerosol probes mounted directlyunder the wing are clearly visible as well as the main aerosol inlet on top of...
Digging out the AWS and doing maintenance. Photo: Paul Smeets. Since 1997/98 IMAU has been operating Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) in western Dronning Maud Land, of which one is situated close to Wasa (AWS 5) and another near Svea (AWS 6)....
Crabeater seals. Photo: Brent Stewart. The aim of this project was to document the diversity, distribution and relative abundance of pinnipeds, cetaceans, seabirds, and penguins using systematic distance sampling methods during a...
Approximate transit route of the Oden from South America to McMurdo Station, Ross Island between 12 and 27 December 2006. The aim of this project was to conduct underway measurements of primary and secondary production to establish a baseline for...
The objective of this project was to collect systematic, comparative observational data on sea ice morphology and distribution as the polar icebreaker Oden transited through the Bellingshausen, Amundsen and Ross Seas. The data collected included...
An XBT being deployed. Photo: Allan Miller The aim of this project was to map the thermal field in the upper ocean during the spring to summer transition of 2006/07. This work complements transects that are more commonly occupied across the Drake...
The aim of this project was to deploy six SOLO floats at two locations: near 60°S latitude, and close to the ice edge near 150°W longitude as the Oden transits from South America to McMurdo Station. These floats measure temperature and salinity at...
The aim of this project was to document the occurrence of marine mammals and seabirds in the waters of western Antarctica from South America to McMurdo Station, and particularly from Cape Horn to 90°W longitude, by collaborating with a team of...
The crew, science team, educator, and journalist participants of SWEDARP Oden Southern Ocean Expedition 2006/07(with Explorers Club Flag No. 84). Photo: Brent Stewart. The aim of this study was to collect samples of organic compound pollutants...
