... of the “basement” (figure 1). Recently it has proved possible to include Novaya Zemlya in our fieldwork, by working with the Russian Naval authorities in Murmansk. The fieldwork started in 2004 and is expected to continue in the years ...
Dallmann Laboratory and Jubany base, 62°14’S, 58°40’W, Potter Cove, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Aim The overall objective of this study is the estimation of the ...
... Sweden, in the SWEDARP Antarctic expedition in 2004/05 is a contribution to the SCAR permanent GPS tracking network. During the period 1991–2005 our division has taken part in five different expeditions to the Antarctic ...
... in average. However, the right panel shows that the stronger gusts have been observed at the ‘glacier site’ making this site less suitable for the MARA experiment Meteorological measurements A meteorological station was installed ...
Walking towards the new South Pole station from the IceCube area. Photo: Per Olof Hulth. The aim of AMANDA and IceCube The ...
... East Greenland Sea our investigations clearly demonstrated that the formation of halocarbons were predominantly taking place in sea ice and in snow, and that organisms occupying brine of high salinity were the most efficient producers. ...
... work was at sea, but during leg 2 we also sampled lake and pond water and plankton. The air sampling is done by sucking large volumes of air (~1 000 m3 per sample) through a sampling train consisting of a filter to catch the particle ...
... in May – is largely indefinite with reference to transport and transformation. The Beringia 2005 expedition, taking place a few months after the period of elevated deposition of mercury around the polar basin, offered an unique ...
... path Li-Cor 6200 Infrared Gas Analyser. A clear plexiglass chamber was placed on top of the alloy chamber base marking each plot. Measurements were made under full sun, two shade treatments and complete darkness in order to generate a ...
... we anticipate the results of this study to carry added value for the scientific community as well as for decision-making bodies. Specific aims To determine CH4 concentrations in surface seawater, in water column profiles and in air during ...
... Alerstam Background and objectives Extensive studies of bird migration patterns based on field observations and tracking radar registrations have been conducted during earlier expeditions to Siberia in 1994, the central Arctic Ocean in 1996 ...
... approx. 6 km, at each of the four main sites, plus an extra 1 km-transect in riverine vegetation at site 1. When walking along the legs we recorded all signs of browsing and grazing, as well as tracks, trails, diggings, scrapings and faeces. ...
... in the landscape. Tomas Karlberg at the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat assisted us during surveys. Here he is looking for patches of lush vegetation in the landscape at site 3, as such patches might be fox dens. Photo: Bodil Elmhagen. ...
... 1983, 1986). They sometimes reach extremely high densities, up to 26.4/m² or 264 000/ha (Danell et al., 1999), making them the completely dominant insect herbivores in some habitats. However, our knowledge of their food preferences is ...
... studying the birds’ preparation for the long jump, by sampling the food abundance on the coastal mudflats and by making behavioural observations of the birds. By putting radio transmitters on birds we planned to follow in detail both the ...
... possibility in Chukotka, whereas on Oden the presses were placed in a drying cupboard. The Kamchatka team, lacking electricity at the base camps, used purposely designed mobile drying facilities (picture 3). The boxes were heated by ...
... countries. Healy started the HOTRAX’05 transect on 5th August from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and reached the first working area, the Chukchi Borderland, off the Alaskan margin, on 9th August (figure 1). On 20th August the third leg of ...
... River, near the southern end of Kolyuchin Bay (BC2 on figure 1 right). We spent the remainder of our field season working from this location, with plenty of time to do a thorough job. Here we experienced typical camp life with tents, sleeping ...
... the LOMROG III ship track (orange) and fieldwork north of Greenland as part of the Continental Shelf Project of the Kingdom of Denmark from 2006 to 2012.Yellow line – LORITA seismic refraction lines (2006), green line – LOMROG I ship track ...
... The seismic data acquired during the three LOMROG cruises will form an important part of the documentation of a Kingdom of Denmark submission regarding an extended continental shelf in the area north of Greenland, due at the end of 2014.
