The permanent GPS site Svea in Heimefrontfjella. Photo: Erick Asenjo. Backgound Since the beginning of the 1990’s the SCAR working group on Geodesy and Geoinformatics has devoted much effort to establishing and measuring a GPS geodetic network...
Left: Stensiös camp with Mount Templet and Sassenfjorden. Photo: unknown.Right: Our camp with Mount Templet and Sassenfjorden. Photo: Jonas Hagström. Background For a long period (1923–1959) the Department of Palaeozoology at the Swedish Museum of...
A) Overview map; B) map of Northeast Greenland showing sites visited during field seasons 2003–2006, C) Dark areas show Quaternary sediment cover and coloured areas show the 2006 field sites Scientific background Along the presently ice-free...
Overview map of Greenland. A) Coloured box indicates insert map, B) shows our four principal investigation areas on the northern coast of Johannes V. Jensen Land Background The importance of the Arctic region for global change has often been...
Schematic constructive plate margin. A) Cross-section view. B) Map view of symmetric spreading. C) Map view of asymmetric spreading. Project aims The surface of the Earth is made of many rigid pieces known as plates. The margins between these...
Picture was taken from the Zeppelin station 26 April 2006 just prior to the pollution event. Photo: Ann-Christine Engvall. Project aim The energy budget on Earth is largely determined by the so-called greenhouse gases, which occur naturally in the...
Patterned ground in proximity to the field station Svea. Photo: Hanna Ridefelt Background About 5% of the total area of the Antarctic continent is ice-free permafrost terrain. The special climatic conditions, with very low temperatures and little...
Eurasian margin in the latest Mesozoic. Over eighty percent of the world’s energy is supplied by fossil fuels and most of the transport sector is driven by oil. Expanding world economies, especially in Asia, are pressing up the price of most...
Lena is sampling a quartzite boulder for analyses of cosmogenic isotopes. Quartzites are excellent for this purpose due to their mineralogy, but are ‘hard as #@&&’ and difficult to sample. Photo: Helena Alexanderson Scientific background...
Dallmann Laboratory and Jubany base, 62°14’S, 58°40’W, Potter Cove, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Aim The overall objective of this study is the estimation of the early, mid- and longterm effects of ultraviolet radiation...
GPS measurement at Wasa station. Photo: Erick Asenjo Introduction The participation of the Division of Geodesy of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in the SWEDARP Antarctic expedition in 2004/05 is a contribution to the SCAR...
The Swedish antarctic station Wasa. Photo: Uwe Raffalski. Scientific background Everybody knows that the Antarctic meteorological conditions on the ground are rather unique, with low temperature, strong winds and very low precipitation. In...
Walking towards the new South Pole station from the IceCube area. Photo: Per Olof Hulth. The aim of AMANDA and IceCube The AMANDA telescope for high-energy cosmic neutrinos was constructed between 1995 and 2000 deep down in the ice sheet at the...
AWS 5 and AWS 6 were given a new mast extension system, which should considerably simplify AWS maintenance in the future. Photo: Uwe Raffalski. Aim of the work Since 1997/98 IMAU has been operating Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) in western...
The increase of the concentration of trichloroethylene (black, left axis) and diiodomethane (pink, right axis) in experiments conducted with water from melt ponds. Concentrations given in pmol l-1 (y-axis) and sample number on the x-axis Objective...
Distribution of in situ fluorescence across the Arctic Ocean from the Alaska coast (left) to the Svalbard shelf. Red colors indicate high fluorescence, dark colors indicate low fluorescence. Scientific Background Findings of the last 15 years have...
The 36-bottle rosette sampler is taken out of its container in preparation for the next cast. From the left: Jim Swift, Peter Winsor, Bert Rudels and Frank Zemlyak. Photo: Göran Björk Objective The overarching objective of the oceanography project...
Water sampling in the North Atlantic using a rosette equipped with twenty-four 20 l Niskin bottles and a Sea Bird CTD. Photo: Ralph Dahlqvist Background and aim of the project About one third of the world’s soil carbon is accumulated within the...
Instrumental setup for the automated pCO2 measurements (Kimoto Electric Co., LTD) used onboard IB Oden. Photo: Agneta Fransson. Aim The shallow shelves in the Arctic Ocean, in particular the Bering and Chukchi Seas, are considered to be important...
Lars-Anders Hansson collecting zooplankton samples from a pond at Kolyuchin Bay. The zooplankton will be analyzed for their content of organic pollutants. Photo: Henrik Kylin. Aim The main goal of this project was to investigate the occurrence,...
