A moraine ridge on the southern Store Koldewey lowland, probably dating from the end of the last glaciation. Photo: Lena Håkansson Introduction and scientific background For a long time the onset of regional northern hemisphere glaciation was...
Tectonic setting of the Arctic showing the inferred opening of the Amerasian Basin in the Mesozoic (white arrows) and the Eurasian Basin and North Atlantic in the Tertiary (black arrows). Based on Jackson and Gunnarsson (1990), bathymetric data...
Surface snow sampling for detailed snow chemistry studies. Photo: Christina Miller After seven field seasons on the Greenland ice sheet the goal was fulfilled. On 17 July 2003 the deep drilling at NorthGRIP reached the bedrock at a depth of 3 085...
The Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago bordering the northern Kara Sea. Introduction Our collaborative Swedish-American-Russian project seeks to clarify the long-debated northern extent of the Kara Sea Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM,...
Gorely volcano, south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Photo: Anders Karlqvist Kamchatka Polar research in Kamchatka may seem remote. Petropavlovsk is at the same latitude as Amsterdam and the landscape is somewhat reminiscent of the Swedish...
Our international NW Spitsbergen team. From left to right – Igor Kamenev, Claude Lepvrier, Alexander Tebenkov, Victoria Pease, Loic Labrousse, Synnøve Elvevold, and Carl Pettersson. Photo: Victoria Pease Project aims Our planet tells a story...
Introduction In the season 2000/01 Australia, Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa and Sweden, co-ordinated by Jan Erling Haugland, made an evaluation of flights between Cape Town and Dronning Maud Land (DML), as well as...
Mart Nyman at Dome C. Photo: Mart Nyman The 2001/02 season of the long-term programme EPICA, European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, was a great success and resulted in the longest ice core record ever recovered. The deep drilling at Dome C...
The observed neutrinos from AMANDA-II from data collected in 2000. The sky view is given in equatorial coordinates: declination vs. right ascension. Potential neutrino sources are given. No significant source is observed. Introduction The AMANDA...
Introduction The terrestrial vegetation of Dronning Maud Land is sparse and consists of lichens, mosses and algae. The growth rates of Antarctic lichens at continental localities have been measured to 0.1 mm per year. This means that the...
Tardigrade of the genus Macrobiotus collected on Basen. Photo: K. Ingemar Jönsson Introduction Tardigrades are small (ca. 0.2–1.0 mm) aquatic invertebrates found in a variety of ecosystems and microhabitats. Despite their dependence on liquid...
An Adélie penguin upside-down for sampling. Photo: Jonas Waldenström The unique wildlife of Antarctica is considered to be particularly sensitive to environmental hazards because of the extremes in climate and because of the limited choice of feed...
The north side of the Wasa station building. Photo: Warren Papworth Introduction In 2001 the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat extended an invitation to the Australian Antarctic Division for one of its officers to participate in the SWEDARP...
Specimens of the genus Plectus are the most common nematodes on the nunatak Basen in Dronning Maud Land. The SEM-picture shows the anterior end of a female. Photo: Sven Boström On Antarctic nunataks (mountain peaks penetrating the ice shield)...
Aboa station. The generator building (left) and the main building (right). The station area is partly snow-covered even during the summer season. Photo: Anne Swartling As part of an environmental program, a soil study was initiated by the Swedish...
Aim of the project In continental Antarctica macroscopic life is restricted to a few categories of organisms. The most numerous are lichens, numbering up to perhaps around 100 identified species, followed by mosses, birds and arthropods. Apart...
The old fishing-boat Puttut served as base camp and transportation for one week. Photo: Niklas Sparrenbom Background A number of natural processes interact to cause sea level changes. The sea level position is at every point in time and space...
Tectonic elements of the Eurasian Arctic in the late Mesozoic. The origin of the Arctic Basin remains one of the major mysteries of earth’s tectonic history. This vast ocean, largely covered by polar ice, is rimmed by wide shallow continental...
On the coastal foreland north of the Gusinaya River a 150 m high bedrock hill shows a distinct “stoss-and-lee” morphology, indicating an ice movement from the inland (right) towards the sea. Photo: Christian Hjort Scientific background Since 1996...
Glaciotectonically disturbed sediments of marine unit 2, below till-2 at site 29. Ice movement from left-to-right. Photo: Ólafur Ingólfsson Introduction The extent, volume and timing of past glaciations in the Eurasian Arctic remain disputed,...
