... Dauphine helicopter, the Norwegian Polar Institute managed to get us onboard the Norwegian coast guard ice breaking vessel KV Svalbard for transportation into Hinlopen. By 22 April KV Svalbard could penetrate no further into the sea-ice ...
... quality is very dependent on the ice conditions. It is impossible to acquire high quality data during heavy ice-breaking and therefore alternative hydrographical surveying methods had to be employed in areas where high quality data was ...
... prevented us from acquiring data where needed. Another option is to break a 25 nautical mile track by making two runs with Oden and subsequently acquiring the seismic data while passing through the track a third time (Picture 1). ...
... generator. A Niskin-type bottle for water sampling lies in the snow. The winch is configured in boom assembly for working over the ice edge and the wire counter hangs over the open water. In the background, Kajsa Tönnesson, University of ...
... than 1 500 km encountering a variety of difficulties along the way. The meeting was also the ultimate symbol marking the success of eight year’s of planning, the highly satisfying culmination of international collaboration, and, of ...
Ingemar Wolf checking the MARA antenna array during a storm. Photo: Sheila Kirkwood MARA is a radar that measures winds, turbulence and ...
... and how these may affect and be affected by climate change are important for the support of pertinent decision-making Microbiology Marine bacteria are key players in the recycling of most nutrients in marine waters and ...
... situation and the local environment. The project has an international comparative and bi-polar approach, breaking away from national frame-works common in previous research on polar history. It is a multidisciplinary project, with an ...
... -08 Martian analogue gullies on Earth On a scouting mission to Svalbard in 2006, we found gullies that bear striking similarities to the Martian ones. These gullies, which originate from two different planets, exhibit the same kind of ...
... permafrost does potentially constitute a substantial positive feedback to climate warming but IPCC refrains from making any assessment of this risk due to the lack of data. The ISSS-08 contributes substantial new observations on methane ...
Over patterned ground aiming for the Triassic of Vikinghögda, Sassendalen. Photo: Mikael Axelsson When the large reptiles died out at the cretaceous/tertiary boundary, the ...
... normal day in the field we would search for suitable sites to take rock samples for cosmogenic exposure dating by walking around in the alpine landscape. Every rock sample was carefully chiseled out with a hammer and chisel – sometimes a ...
... The mission was to spend as much time as possible in the central Arctic pack ice, drifting with the ice while making detailed observations of how clouds form and dissipate. ASCOS is a project within the International Polar Year ...
... part of the Arctic. The old Kinnvika station in Svalbard is the logistic platform for scientists who will be making six research expeditions in 2007–2009. During 2008, 555 man-days were spent at the Kinnvika station. Spring operations ...
... a (Chl a) on the 17 and 18 December, suggesting that the ship passed through a phytoplankton bloom. The most striking feature was the high pCO2 values, i.e. CO2 oversaturation relative to the atmospheric level, observed for the first time ...
... USA University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA University of Wuppertal, Germany Oxford University, United Kingdom Utrecht University, The Netherlands University of Canterbury, New Zealand Achterberg et al. 2006a. First Year ...
... (certain conditions apply when data are used in publications: contact Michiel van de Broeke). Those interested in working with the data should contact Michiel van den Broeke, Carleen Reijmer or Paul Smeets. FINNARP
An XBT being deployed. Photo: Allan Miller The aim of this project was to map the thermal field in the upper ocean during the spring to summer transition of 2006/07. This work complements transects that are more commonly occupied across the Drake...
... project seeks its explanations and understandings from an international comparative and bi-polar perspective, breaking away from national frameworks common in previous research on polar history. It is a multidisciplinary project, with its ...
... gullies. Martian analogue gullies on Earth On a scouting mission to Svalbard in 2006, we found gullies that bear striking similarities to the Martian gullies. The left side of figure 1 shows a gully found on Svalbard (Adventfjorden) while the ...
