... provides very good opportunities to study migration behaviour over large areas. What bacteria and viruses occur naturally in birds and mammals in the Arctic and which arrive there with e.g. migratory birds? To increase understanding of ...
The questions studied included: To what extent does the natural biogeochemical cycle in the Arctic Ocean affect the global and local climate? Quantifiable climate changes arise for ...
... evolution of High Arctic Eurasia, from Svalbard to Severnaya Zemlya (Gee and Pease 2004), to better understand the Uralian, Caledonian, Timanian and older history of the “basement”. Principal investigator David Gee Uppsala University
... Lund University Microscopic animals on nunataks in Antarctica Research leader: Björn Sohlenius, Swedish Museum of Natural History Lichens in Antarctica Research leader: Anders Telenius, Mälardalen University Schedule November 2001–January 2002
... objectives: conducting a detailed mapping of S.A. Andrée’s final camp at Kvitøya, and carrying out several cultural science projects in Nordaustlandet. Schedule August–September 2000
... based research expedition to the Canadian Arctic archipelago and Alaska. Researchers from the Swedish Museum of Natural History investigated the aquatic environment by collecting fish samples for analyses of toxic substances and systematic ...
... field work using historical-archaeological methods to collect data on the exploitation of the polar areas’ natural resources. The results were compared with industrial historical studies carried out for other regions. LASHIPA 8 was an ...
In January 2013, researchers from the Swedish Museum of Natural History returned to Seymour Island in Antarctica to locate traces of Palaeogene mammals. Seymour Island, east of the ...
The international RINK (Respons af Indlandsisen til Naturlige Klimaændringer – Response of the Inland ice-sheet to natural climate changes) project investigated how the ice margin reacted to earlier periods of warming, the interrelationship ...
... Europe. Principal investigators Thomas Mörs and Jonas Hagström Department of Palaeozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History
... Heritage Site Laponia in northern Sweden. Principal investigator Christer G Wiklund Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
... Sweden, USA, Great Britain, Norway and Russia. The aim of the project was to explain the development of natural resource exploitation in the polar areas from the 17th century until today, and the ensuing consequences for the ...
... from the seabed in the polar regions. The reasons for this are many, but the remoteness of the polar areas is naturally a significant hurdle. Cost and availability of suitable probes is another. An innovation project in collaboration ...
... during the International Polar Year 2007–2008. Swedish principal investigator Per Andersson Swedish Museum of Natural History Participating researcher Sandra Gdaniec Swedish Museum of Natural History Fluxes of carbon dioxide and net ...
... to broken ice is of interest. Principal investigator Lennart Fransson Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural resources engineering, Luleå University of Technology Ice monitoring with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) The researchers ...
... experiments. Hence, there is a general lack of experimental designs testing the interplay of abiotic factors on natural communities. No information on interactive effects of temperature and increased CO2 on the production and community ...
... New Zealand. The research expedition was organised by the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) and was a part of the programme German Antarctic North Victoria Land Expedition (GANOVEX). 23 ...
... underwater mountain ranges Lomonosov Ridge and Alpha Ridge. Lead Scientist, Louis S. St-Laurent Mary-Lynn Dickson Natural Resources Canada Co-Lead Scientist, Oden Katarina Gårdfeldt Chalmers University of Technology Liaison Officer, Oden Gary ...
... Angerbjörn Department of Zoology, Stockholm University Love Dalén Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History Instagram: Arctic islands Ecological consequences for Arctic species communities How is climate change affecting ...
... effective documentation of archaeological sites in the polar regions, in order to inform best practices in cultural heritage conservation and management. The project will test those methods by documenting the archaeological remains of ...
