Radar antennas on board Oden. The icebreaker Frey is visible in the background. Photo: Per Holmlund Vessels that sail in ice-covered areas disturb the sea ice and trigger a number of processes. The vessel may break the ice sheet into smaller...
Francesca Pasotti from Ghent University prepares to dive into the ice-cold water. Photo: Anders Torstensson Climate change is occurring faster in Western Antarctica than in many other places on Earth. The glacier in Potter Cove on King George...
All participants on icebreaker Oden. Photo: Per Frejvall The OATRC 2015 expedition was carried out between 18 September and 2 October as a two-ship operation in the Arctic Ocean north of Svalbard. The two Swedish icebreakers Oden and Frej were...
Frej and Oden. Photo: Hanna Hagelin The ice has a major bearing on how vessels in both the Bay of Bothnia and the Arctic choose to navigate during the season when the sea is covered by ice. Choosing to sail in areas of open water or thin ice makes...
Nedim Curic, Lucy Naud and Lukas Scholtz going through the sample protocols, Abisko Scientific Research Station is seen in the background. Photo: Fredrik Daleru We believe that global warming will contribute to a northerly expansion of boreal...
Searching for Ichthyostega bone fragments near the summit of Celsius Bjerg. Photo: Benjamin Kear Vertebrates first emerged onto land during the Devonian 358 million years ago. 108 million years later in the earliest Triassic, they returned to the...
A local examines our trace gas measurements in the Arctic Ocean. Photo: Brett Thornton Large quantities of organic carbon are moving from land into the Arctic Ocean. This carbon has many different sources, among them thawing permafrost, erosion,...
Each year, several tonnes of mercury end up in the Arctic Ocean. This mercury is transported from more southerly latitudes with the help of the wind and originate from, for example, the burning of fossil fuels and small-scale gold extraction. In...
In conjunction with the Swedish-Canadian research expedition Arctic Ocean 2016, the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat invited researchers in the early stages of their careers to participate in the expedition under the auspices of the Early Career...
The Swedish research icebreaker Oden in the Arctic Ocean. Photo: Åsa Lindgren The appearance and structure of the seabed can reveal a great deal about the history of our planet. It is the movement of the continental plates that has shaped the...
The climate in the Arctic is particularly sensitive, and the Arctic average temperature increases more quickly than that in the rest of the world. Researchers are not really sure which processes are most important for the rapid Arctic climate...
The MAGIC-DML team. Photo: Carl Lundberg Almost all of Antarctica is covered by ice. Underneath the ice sheet is a landscape composed of hills, valleys, mountains, and planes, similar to landscapes on other continents. This landscape becomes...
More than one quarter of the CO2 in the atmosphere is absorbed by the oceans. The Southern Ocean accounts for around 40 %, but according to some models, the capacity of the Southern Ocean to absorb CO2 has been limited by an increase in the...
An ice-tethered 200 m long mooring line, was deployed for measurements of water velocities, temperature and salinity during the PS106.1 twelve-day drift. Photo: Stephan Schön The shipboard CTD-Rosette deployed from the aft of research vessel...
Getting dropped off at Wild Lake. Emelie is carrying gear to shore to set up base camp number two where two weeks were spent. Photo: Mark Raftrey Emelie is comparing the geological map with the actual rock units that found in field with a good...
Two of the exclosures in Semmeldalen. Photo: Elin Lindén Elin have just taken a soil sample in one of the exclosures. Photo: Arvid Alm One of the most important herbivores in the Arctic is the reindeer. They are known for affecting what plant...
Glacier on Ellesmere Island. Photo: Jaroslaw Majka The researchers flew to Ellesmere Island to collect samples from rocky outcrops. Photo: Jaroslaw Majka Base camp at Yelverton Inlet, on the north side of Ellesmere Island. Photo: Jaroslaw Majka In...
The research group on Wrangels Island. Photo: Anders Angerbjörn 147 samples of prehistoric material were collected on Wrangel Island, many of the collected samples consisted of woolly mammoth tusks. Photo: Anders Angerbjörn The scientists had...
Mountain Ulvetanna (meaning wolf tooth) in Dronning Maud Land – both high and dramatic. Photo: Carl Lundberg Schirmacher Oasis. Photo: Carl Lundberg Almost all of Antarctica is covered with ice. In Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, the ice is...
Taymyr – enigma of the Siberian Arctic Project leader: David G. Gee, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University The world, as we know it today, is largely shaped by the last hundred million years of plate movements. Our present...
