... served two purposes: to support the seismic and hydrographic activities of the Continental Shelf Project of the Kingdom of Denmark, and to support the Swedish research projects and, when possible, the Danish science of opportunity ...
... in determining the positions of the stations. Two participants from polar teacher programmes were also onboard, taking part in different research projects. Date 26 November 2008–6 January 2009 Participants Co-chief scientist Katarina ...
... States National Science Foundation (NSF) chartered the Swedish Polar Icebreaker Oden in late 2006 to provide ice-breaking support to cut a channel through the seasonal fast ice in McMurdo Sound and facilitate re-supply and refuelling by ship ...
... Principal investigator Vassilis Kitidis School of Marine Science and Technology, University of Newcastle United Kingdom Principal investigator Henrik Kylin Department of Environmental Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural ...
... of Chemistry, Göteborg University Sweden Fredrik Dalerum Department of Zoology, Stockholm University Sweden Anne Dekinga Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Texel, The Netherlands University of Groningen The Netherlands Julia ...
... in climate and species’ distributions during the last few thousand years. The theme brought together scientists working with field methods ranging from taking sediment cores at 500–3 000 m water depth and sonar mapping of the Arctic Ocean ...
... on the nunatak surfaces of Basen and Fossilryggen (figure 2). Two groups of landforms are distinguished: cracking dominated and frost-heave dominated. Thermal contraction cracks are developed in both sediment and bedrock ...
... from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The programme consists of two deep drillings in Antarctica at sites with different characteristics. The first ...
... Swedish drillers from the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat. The AMANDA detector has been fully operational and taking data since February 2000. The completed detector is named AMANDA-II in order to distinguish it from the partially ...
... pyranometer) by the following expedition in January 2004 and the system was left operating from 4 February 2004. Checking the data from the air-earth-current measurements. Photo: Sheila Kirkwood Preliminary results There were many days with ...
... UVR on the succession of micro- and macroalgae will be determined in the rocky intertidal in Potter Cove on King George Island, Antarctica. Background Marine macroalgae are the most important primary producers in coastal hard bottom ...
Drilling vessel Vidar Viking (nearest) was able to keep position for extended periods of time because of the support provided by icebreakers Oden ...
... Zemlya 2004 party was composed of geologists from Sweden (Uppsala and Stockholm); Norway (Harstad) and the United Kingdom (Cambridge), in addition to our Russian colleagues from St. Petersburg and Moscow. Uppsala provided the western ...
... but is not found at the top of J.P. Koch´s Fjeld itself. At some places on the plateaux the drift exhibits fresh-looking mounds and ridges. Bedrock is exposed as weathered tors along the plateau edges. Samples for CED were collected from the ...
... in the coming years, is the development of the coal mining industry in Svalbard with regard to technology, working conditions, settlement planning and formation of society. Very closely linked with these questions is the role of the ...
... during Grenvillian time (approximately 1 050 Ma) with a less extensive tectonothermal event in the Caledonian. Working on the genesis of the migmatites will consequently also determine which tectonothermal event produced the majority of ...
... signal, a factor that has been poorly treated and mostly only considered as enriching the remaining snow, not taking in to account any changes due to chemical reactions. The MSA signal in ice cores from Antarctica has shown the opposite ...
Margareta Hansson firn coring at drillsite CM. The nunatak Basen, 10 km away, is seen in the background. Photo: Kim Holmén Background Ice cores have proven to be an excellent tool for paleo-atmosphere studies and climate reconstructions. Sweden...
... from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The programme consists of two deep drillings in Antarctica at sites with different characteristics. The first ...
... areas with relatively steep slope gradients. However crevasses are also found in large flat areas completely lacking topographic undulations. The snow accumulation rates varies from 0.25 mwe a-1 on Ritscherflya to 0.40 mwe a-1 on the ...
