... long distances since we know that special metamorphic slate, killiaq, was extensively used in the Nuuk region for making tools although the source is located in Disco Bay some 650 km to the north. In 2005 a project was initiated with the ...
... eliminated at a late stage of planning. We were thus totally dependent on Twin Otter transport, which meant rethinking possible landing/camp sites as compared to the original expedition plan. The expedition members were split up in three ...
... The International Council for Science (ICSU) has declared 2007–2009 the fourth International Polar Year, marking the 50-year anniversary of the last Polar Year. It is anticipated that technical developments will permit many novel ...
... and surveyors of the Royal Danish Administration for Navigation and Hydrography. 1999. Climate change and the Viking-age fjord environment of the Eastern settlement, South Greenland. Geology of Greenland survey bulletin 183, 61–67. Long, ...
... gained considerable interest recently, is the effect these particles have on the brightness of snow and ice. By making the snow darker, these particles enhance the melting of ice and snow. By observing these trace gases and aerosols on ...
... older succumbed. Body mass and the length of a primary were determined for each chick on at least one occasion making it possible to determine when the eggs had hatched by using previous and detailed studies of chick growth. To estimate ...
... river input. However, while land based measurements of Hg species are represented in literature, information is lacking on the relative importance of various sources of mercury to the polar basin today. Our work contributes to an extensive ...
... the wake of 50 let Podedy, which reduced the data quality significantly, in addition to the noise from the icebreaking. This ice slush was pressed underneath the hull of Oden and occasionally completely covered the hullmounted multibeam ...
... ice thickness was up to 4 m with abundant pressure ridges, it was impossible to acquire data during ice-breaking and hence, alternative hydrographical surveying methods had to be employed (e.g. the “pirouette method”). These ...
... physiology is needed. Likewise, future decrease in global sea ice cover may reduce the world oceans’ capacity for taking up atmospheric CO2. Assessing changes in future sea ice conditions as projected by climate models will allow for a more ...
... a limited geographical context. Remains in Gipsdalen of a Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate (SSS) mining- and claim marking site (from 1919). The remains of SSS activities on Bünsow land reveal both the industrial and colonial practices of ...
... from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The programme consisted of two deep drillings in Antarctica at sites with different characteristics. The first ...
... help of drillers from the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat. The AMANDA detector has been fully operational and taking data since February 2000. The construction of a much larger telescope, the new IceCube Neutrino Observatory, began at ...
... its higher areas (above ca. 300 m) show a distinct nunatak topography. Thus the island seemed a promising working area for a glacial geologist. As for the vegetation history of Isla de los Estados, which today is covered below ...
... GPS site Svea in Heimefrontfjella. Photo: Erick Asenjo. Backgound Since the beginning of the 1990’s the SCAR working group on Geodesy and Geoinformatics has devoted much effort to establishing and measuring a GPS geodetic network ...
... “Fish horizon” on Mount Trehøgdene, Sassendalen Valley. 1912. Photo: unkown Right: Fossil hunting on Mount Vikinghøgda, Sassendalen. Photo: Lars Hanning. In Enerdalen, south of Longyearbyen, we tried to reach the Tertiary strata ...
... lowlands are often strongly weathered, in contrast to fjords and valleys, which are characterised by fresh-looking surfaces of glacial erosion. Based on the degree of weathering and on the lack of identified deposits from the last ...
... of researchers to the field. Though the helicopter was totally wrecked, the pilot was fortunately unhurt. Lacking any helicopter replacement until 29th July, we had to depend on Twin Otter transport which, together with unusually ...
... base camp in the Tsentralny Mountains. After a few days evaluating the stratigraphy we divided into separate working groups, each operating from several base camps (figure 2). We typically hiked 10–15 km per day, either directly from ...
... (VR) with support from the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat. Ann-Christine Engvall and Andreas Minikin (DLR) making sure the equipment is in good order before the test flights that took place outside Bremerhaven, Germany in September ...
