The fact that the Arctic basin and shelves have a similar aquatic fauna which is subject to varying levels of pollution stress and to different degrees of relative isolation at population level, constitutes the lowest common denominator for...
Six projects were designed to provide value added marine work to the passage of the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago during the Swedish Tundra Northwest 1999 programme. Projects and accomplishments 1. Marine mammal...
Even though the theme and purpose of Tundra Northwest 1999 was ecological research, no participant could escape the fact that the expedition sailed through waters full of historical perspectives. The seaways between the Canadian northern coastline...
The second and concluding leg of the Tundra Northwest 1999 expedition covered an immense territory in both spatial and temporal terms. The northern parts of the central and western Nearctic are generally perceived to be an almost impenetrable...
Student tourists cruising icebergs on Antarctica Peninsula. Photo: Hans Gelter The aim of this study was mainly to investigate how the polar tourist’s experience is formed by the interaction with the environment and the polar guide. It’s...
Four years of bottom temperature record at mooring site S1 The Antarctic shelf regions are currently experiencing large changes coincident with seaward surging of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. An important reason for the decline is warm salty...
Last touches to the antenna array at Maitri Foto: Sheila Kirkwood MARA, the Moveable Atmospheric Radar for Antarctica, is used to study winds, turbulence and layering in the atmosphere. After two complete years of observations at Troll, the...
Post-graduate student Rickard Pettersson and doctoral candidate Dorothée Vallot at Camp Lomonosovfonna. This is where we stayed during the spring campaign, and also the place of work which involved; filming firn stratigraphy, installing...
Coal harbor in Pyramiden. Photo: Albina Pashkevich Two Russian settlements, Barentsburg and Pyramiden, has been an integral part of the tourism offer on Svalbard for many years. Information concerning tourism development in the Arctic is vital in...
The research team assembled on the sailing boat S/Y Aleiga, base of the Svalbard fieldwork. From left: Björn Gunnarson, Hans Linderholm, Anne Hormes, Toby Koffman, Will Philipps, Mauricio Fuentes, Anders Aulie (2nd skipper), and Niklas Gerhardson...
Map showing the positions of the physical oceanography stations (CTD stations) during leg 2. The section from which data is shown in figure 3 is marked with a square. The Arctic Ocean is presently under change with a rapidly decreasing sea ice...
Sun and melt ponds near Bennett Island. Photo: Michael Tjernström Clouds remain a large uncertainty in our understanding of the climate system over the Arctic Ocean, especially for their impact on surface energy fluxes. Here, a unique environment...
Approaching Spitsbergen from west round midnight. Photo: Sam Fredriksson A fulmar inspecting our work at the research vessel G.O. Sars. Photo: Sam Fredriksson Location Map. A) Bathymetry of the region showing the main currents. The dashed square...
Carl Hoiland looking for sandy intervals within the Apoon volcanics on Amawk Mountain. View is to the west. Mount Doonerak is the high peak in the upper left. Amawk creek is seen to the lower-right draining northwest into the North Fork Koyukuk...
Rosette on its way out. Photo Leif Anderson The Arctic Ocean is now in a state of rapid transition and during the past 30 years the marked reduction in sea-ice cover has been witnessed in instrumental records. By shifts in the Arctic Ocean carbon...
Crew and scientists on icebreaker Oden in icy and sunny waters north of Bennett Island on 28 July 2014. Photo: Jorien Vonk Thawing coastal and subsea permafrost and collapsing shallow methane hydrates could potentially add carbon dioxide and...
Overview map of Leg 2 cruise track starting August 21 from Barrow, Alaska. The cruise ended in Tromsö, Norway, October 4. Working Boxes 1-5 are outlined with blue boxes. Red lines=Seismic reflection profiles; purple lines=Electromagnetic profiles;...
Schematics of key components of the Arctic climate-cryosphere-carbon (C3) system that are addressed by the SWERUS-C3 programme. The insets a-f illustrates the Arctic C3-system in focus for the SWERUS-C3 two-leg expedition. a,b) Sonar images of gas...
R/V Merzlotoved at Dzhardzhan, Lena River, 14 June 2013. Photo: Per Andersson This report describes the second fieldwork season of the project Climate Warming in Siberian Permafrost Regions: Tracing the Delivery of Carbon and Trace Metals to the...
The participants of OATRC 2013. This project studied how ice affects floating offshore structures. This information is very important for builders of robust technology, which is necessary for sustainable exploration and exploitation of the Arctic....
