The long-term programme EPICA, European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, continued during season 2003/04 with deep drilling at Kohnen Station in Dronning Maud Land (EPICA-DML). The driller Kerstin Hörnby represented Sweden in field. The...
The atmospheric neutrino intensity as a function of energy (preliminary). Aim of the work The AMANDA telescope for high energy cosmic neutrinos has been constructed between 1995 and 2000 deep in the ice sheet at the Amundsen-Scott base at the...
Tardigrade (species unidentified) from the nunatak Plogen, Dronning Maud Land. Photo: Ingemar Jönsson Tardigrades are small (approx. 0.2-1.0 mm) aquatic invertebrates found in a variety of ecosystems and microhabitats. They are also one of the...
Arriving at Wasa station. Photo: Sheila Kirkwood Scientific background The aim of this project is to quantify the effect of disturbances on the Sun on the global atmospheric electrical circuit. In this circuit the accumulated effect of thousands...
Two of the ”house penguins” in front of the ”Casa Principal”.Photo: Angela Wulff Aim The overall objective of this study is the estimation of the early, mid- and longterm effects of ultraviolet radiation (UVR; 280-400 nm,...
Drilling vessel Vidar Viking (nearest) was able to keep position for extended periods of time because of the support provided by icebreakers Oden (middle) and Sovetskiy Soyuz (distant) while drilling Hole M0004A at 87’52.0’N,...
One of the most inaccessible bits of land anywhere on Earth is Novaya Zemlya. Located along Eurasia’s Arctic margin, this 100 km wide, 1 000 km long fold-belt reaches from the Polar Urals of northern Russia to 77°N on the continental shelf....
The multinational NorthGRIP research programme has partly been funded by participating institutions from Germany, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Iceland and the U.S. The programme has been coordinated by Denmark and the primary...
Sampling for cosmogenic exposure dating. Photo: Lena Håkansson During the last decades considerable efforts have been put into onshore investigations of the Late Quaternary glacial history in Greenland. This work has indicated that considerable...
Crossing the river at Council, a Small Village east of Nome where the road ends. Photo: Polarforskningssekretariatet The two previous tundra ecology expeditions, conducted in 1994 along the Siberian north coast and in 1999 throughout the Canadian...
The aim of the project The aim of the field campaign in summer 2004 was to initialize documentation and research into the mining history of Svalbard in an international comparative perspective. The most important focus of the research project,...
Migmatites from Kollerfjorden. The lighter area is granitic melt which is injected into the darker rock and derived from melting of the dark rock itself. The dark ”host” rock was a schist, but due to the melting episode lost the...
Ice cores from Polar Regions provide information on past climate and the past composition of the atmosphere. The longest ice care record in Antarctica now extends 740 000 years back in time (EPICA community members, 2004). The soluble and...
AWS 5 at Camp Maudheimvidda, just after installation in 1998. The electronics and battery boxes as well as the mast foot are buried in the snow. Photo: Carleen Reijmer Aim of the work Since 1996/97, IMAU (the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric...
Margareta Hansson firn coring at drillsite CM. The nunatak Basen, 10 km away, is seen in the background. Photo: Kim Holmén Background Ice cores have proven to be an excellent tool for paleo-atmosphere studies and climate reconstructions. Sweden...
The 2002/03 season of the long-term programme EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) was a great success. The EPICA Dome C drilling reached a depth of 3 200 m and resulted in the longest ice core record ever recovered. The EPICA...
Basecamp at Kibergdalen. Photo: Jim Hedfors Aim of the project Ever since the research station Wasa was built in Dronning Maud Land (DML) in 1988/89, glaciologists have been able to maintain a continous scientific program in the...
Introduction The AMANDA telescope for high-energy cosmic neutrinos was constructed between 1995 and 2000 deep in the ice sheet at the Amundsen-Scott base at the South Pole, Antarctica. The scientific goals are, among others, to use the neutrino...
Antenna setup with a view of the generator house and the garage at the Wasa station. Photo: Sven Lidström Scientific Background Many people are unaware that the atmosphere carries a continuous electric current and, even during fair weather, there...
Stromness Bay with the 3 000 m high Allardyce range in the background. Photo: Gunhild Rosqvist The scientific aims of the expedition were to investigate environmental changes at South Georgia since the Last Glacial Maximum (around 20,000 years...
