MARA 2014/15
To date, the MARA atmospheric radar has been making measurements at the Swedish research station Wasa and at the Norwegian station Troll. The radar is currently located at ...
Arctic Ocean 2001
... Gothenburg Remote sensing of albedo and ice coverage Several studies indicate that the marine Arctic ice-cap is shrinking. Sea ice functions as an indicator of climate change and at the same time exerts a very considerable impact itself on ...
IceCube 2009/10
... radiation comes from (near black holes?) and what the dark matter in the universe consists of. The researchers are making use of neutrinos, which are uncharged elementary particles of extremely low mass. Neutrinos are formed when particles ...
East Greenland 2015
... fins into legs and emerged onto dry land. By 250 million years ago this process had reversed, and the tetrapod walking limb was once again remodeled into a fin for a return to life in the sea. Both of these transformations are evidenced in ...
OATRC 2015
... of the study was to measure level of exposure to whole body vibrations for icebreaker crew during Arctic icebreaking conditions. The levels of exposure will be compared to levels of acceptance as published by the Swedish Work Environment ...
Potter Cove
... will carry out a multi-factorial experiment on early successional communities of microphytobenthos at Potter Cove, King George Island, in order to indicate the most important drivers for microbial community structure. Principal investigator ...
Arctic Ocean 2016
... marine geology and atmospheric research. On board Oden there will also be Danish and Norwegian researchers working with marine geology and ice management. Heavy metals in air, sea, snow and ice The environmental chemistry project ...
East Greenland 2016
... fins into legs and emerged onto dry land. By 250 million years ago this process had reversed, and the tetrapod walking limb was once again remodeled into a fin for a return to life in the sea. Both of these transformations are evidenced in ...
PS106 physical oceanography
The expedition consists of two legs, taking place southwest of the Nansen Basin and over the north Barents Sea shelf slope. The aim of the marine part of the ...
Arctic Ocean 2018
... climate in the Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on earth. One of the clearest effects of warming is shrinking sea ice, especially in late summer. Today’s weather forecasts and climate models tend not to work well in the ...
Ocean forced melting of the West Antarctic ice shelves
... TARSAN research project and will navigate an AUV beneath the ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea, where the fastest shrinking glaciers are found. The aim of the study is to carry out previously impossible measurements beneath the Thwaites and ...
På väg till Stanley
... glaciärer vid Drygalskifjorden och Larsen Harbour. Programmet för påföljande dag skulle ha varit att fortsätta till King Hakon Bay, men av olika anledningar valde kaptenen att istället sätta kursen rakt mot Port Stanley. Således har vi nu ...
Brandkårsutryckning
... till vårt hus vilket naturligtvis påkallade hela stans uppmärksamhet. Kvällens samtalsämne i matsalen var att vikingarna hade kommit till stan med sitt stora skepp och nu börjat gå bärsärk och elda upp husen, så det var säkrast att låsa ...
Icebergs dead ahead and all around
... to just sit outside and take it all in. So far the whole experience has been great. The data acquisition is mostly taking care of itself, everyone on board has been very nice, the food is better than what I would get at a nice restaurant at ...
On our way to Pine Island Bay
... with them in concert with Oden’s motions! Our ’office’ corner is on Oden’s bridge, and looking up from our at least 5 computer monitors (labelled with clear instructions for their use such as ”this is NOT a ...
Ageless Island
... consequent long exposure times give me some hard times when pictures need to be taken from aboard a moving and rocking boat. At quarter past 11 we got a yellow dot at the given coordinates on the radar screen among all the other similar ...
Waiting for better weather
... inside the Oden remains high. Being at sea presents you with the unique challenge of rolling with the punches and making the best of all situations. Creativity can be at its finest when sitting and waiting for weather to pass and more often ...
Reflections of a marine geologist
... a little more cold). Washing mud is strangely therapeutic. All of the Swedish scientist have huge, professional looking cameras. You have to travel east to get to the western Ross Sea and vice versa. At the bottom of the world most ...
A day in the life of a geologist
... like all other days on this trip, has been extremely busy and exciting. A typical day on the ship for me involves waking up and heading to breakfast. While at breakfast I normally find out when the first core will be taken of the day, most ...
Polarstern and Oden met in Antarctica
... groups are busy preparing first analyses of the data and writing the cruise report. Although we left our main working area and are on our way to Punta Arenas we continue to map the seafloor. The area around Antarctica is still poorly ...