... tallest, coldest, windiest and driest continent We are here in the middle of summer, but the water in the drinking bottle is freezing up quite quickly unless you keep an eye on it. We constantly wear 4–5 layers of clothes, but when the ...
... at this elevated position was to look for clues that the ice sheet have been thicker. We are searching for rocks sticking out of the ice and examine them for traces of ice – scratches or grooves that indicate that the ice sheet has once ...
... study this gigantic system from the inside, by drifting in the pack ice for five weeks on the icebreaker Oden and making observations through the end of the summer and the start of the autumn freeze-up period. There will be many scientific ...
... in the High Arctic, which has unique oceanographic conditions. Unlike most of the global oceans, there are no breaking waves to make particles out of sea water (sea spray aerosol), because waves are prevented from forming by the sea ice. ...
... we want to get north of the air currents that transport air from over Russia with anthropogenic emissions. We are looking for a sufficiently large and stable ice sheet that can hold us for five weeks for stationary research in order to ...
... and prevent incidents. Three main work stations on our ice floe have been set up. We have one group of scientists working at an open lead, 1 km from Oden. Each morning, scientists, technicians and polar bear guards take off by foot or ...
... walrus visits. The walrus spent a few minutes investigating the research instruments in the water as well as attacking the floating buoys attached to the equipment. But then it got tired and left us, and we haven’t seen it anymore. ...
... vessel. The bridge on board Kronprins Haakon. Photo: Åsa Lindgren The remaining time in Longyearbyen was spent packing and securing the research equipment in all the laboratories, cleaning our cabins and other spaces, as well as ...
... science area behind while pausing for CTDs on the way. Ran is packed up. Nights are dark. Winter is closing in. Looking forward to arriving in Northern Hemisphere spring in a couple of weeks!! pic.twitter.com/a9XAPbmkym — Anna Wåhlin ...
... early–late). These events appear to occur inside the detector, with no tracks from any incoming charged particles, making them good candidates for neutrino events. In 2012 we also succeeded in demonstrating that the deep, denser portion of ...
... Spitsbergen? Visual materials directly and concretely communicate change processes over time. Compared with the working methods used in and results from other scientific fields, photography-based research can offer a clearer understanding ...
... conditions are challenging due to the presence of icebergs and multi-year ice that drift at high speed. Upward-looking sonars were used to gather data on ice thickness and ice drift speeds. We also used electromagnetic antennas and a ...
... (A–F), molluscs (G–J), and problematic fossils (I–N). This assemblage is similar to faunas described from King George Island, West Antarctica and the Stansbury Basin of Australia. This suggests a mid-Botoman age for the upper ...
... melting of glaciers in the Amundsen Shelf. Four institutions from South Korea, Great Britain, USA, and Sweden are working together in a resource-sharing programme. During the 2012 Amundsen Sea cruise on the Korean icebreaker Araon, 16 ...
... mixing (i.e., tropopause folds, turbulence associated with cloud-top cooling, surface heating, and mountain-wave breaking). Radar observations at Troll will continue until early 2014 to allow a climatology of these processes to be compiled. ...
... and here we see water being fetched with the help of a Finnish tracked vehicle. Photo: Cecilia Selberg Working on environmental management for research stations will continue to be a part of the systematic environmental work in ...
... were taken for petrological studies (metamorphic rocks) and provenance analysis (sedimentary rocks). While we were taking shelter from high winds at Hyttevika, southwestern Wedel Jarlsberg Land, our inflatable boat was damaged beyond repair ...
... history of the region. The Buotankaga River exposes regionally deformed Ordovician through Triassic strata. Hiking and using a boat to cross the river, we collected samples for sediment analysis. The BC1 section was folded and thrust ...
... can we start to process our material and draw scientific conclusions. Future results will be published in high-ranking international scientific journals. The first base camp along the banks of the Luktakh River. Photo: Per Möller Mammoth ...
... to gather interviews and other video material for a 30-minute TV documentary on the Continental Shelf Project of the Kingdom of Denmark.
