The field effort this season was basically focussed to objectives within the SCAR-ISMASS-ITASE-ANTIME initiatives. It is an extension of the programme which has been run by the Department of Physical Geography in Dronning Maud Land since 1987...
The AMANDA detector for high energy cosmic neutrinos is under construction deep in the glacier at the Amundsen Scott Base at the South Pole, Antarctica. The scientific goals are, among others, to use neutrino particles to investigate the question...
Environmental management is a crucial part of all Swedish activities in Antarctica. In co-operation with Finland and Norway, a Nordic Environmental Handbook/Antarctic Operations has been developed. The handbook covers all different parts of...
The Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, participated in SWEDARP 1991/92, 1993/94 and 1997. For the 1999/2000 expedition, the Swedish team stayed in Antarctica for about 1.5 months (14...
Long-term global climate modelling is partly based on proxy data obtained from glacial geological records. During the Quaternary, the Northern Hemisphere experienced the growth and decay of large continental ice-sheets. The ultimate driving force...
The Andrée Polar Expedition, consisting of S. A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel, left Danskön, Spitsbergen, on 11 July 1897. The goal was the North Pole and a possible six-day polar transect to the Bering Straits. Their hydrogen...
The overall aim of this new international history of science project is to study the establishment of the science of climatology in the Arctic in the late 19th and the 20th centuries. Arctic weather conditions influence the weather of the...
The general opinion is that the Arctic climate is more preserving for both organic and inorganic materials in comparison with the middle European environment. This statement was the incitement for me to start an investigation at the SWEDARCTIC...
The northern Polar regions are underlain by some of the least known crust on Earth. Their geological evolution can be reconstructed from studies of land areas along the northern margins of North America, Greenland, Europe and Asia, and from...
NorthGRIP is the latest deep ice core drilling programme on the Greenland ice sheet. This multinational research programme is partly funded by participating institutions from Germany, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Iceland and the...
One definition of archaeology is that it is the systematic study of past material remains with the purpose of generating knowledge of human social and cultural behaviour. Marine Archaeology is, according to this definition, a special branch of...
The mining historians of the Swedish Programme for Social Science Research in the Polar Regions started field research on Svalbard in the summer of 1999. During SWEDARCTIC 2000 this work was continued and expanded. A principal aim of this research...
Studying in detail the development of western knowledge on the polar regions tells us many things of what is exceptional about these parts of the world in that regard and what is in fact similar to conditions of knowledge formation elsewhere....
A neutrino event showing a muon passing close to one of the AMANDA-B10 strings. The size of the circles is proportional to the amount of light observed by each light detector. The muon is produced by a neutrino interaction just below the detector....
The Arctic Ocean is the least known of all the ocean basins. To date oceanographic and geophysical work has been carried out from ice islands, icebreakers, aeroplanes, and satellites. Each of these approaches suffers from limitations that can be...
The environments of our planet, from topography to climate, are dictated by the movement of lithospheric plates. The relative motion associated with these large, rigid pieces of the Earth’s continental and oceanic crust results in...
The “Eurasian Ice Sheets” project is mainly financed by the EU and is also assisted by the Swedish Natural Science Research Council (NFR) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It works under the umbrella of the European Science...
In order to understand the climatic links between oceans, atmosphere and continents we need improved knowledge concerning the timing and extent of Late Quaternary glaciations. The Quaternary climate is characterized by shifts between cold periods,...
Exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources in the polar regions is among the most ancient of human motives for finding the means and taking the risk of entering or moving permanently in to these harsh environments of the Earth....
Interactions between herbivores and their food-plants play a very important role in shaping ecosystems. This may be especially true for low productive areas, where ecosystems are usually less complex and characterized by a relatively low diversity...
