... so the application of modern geochronological and geochemical techniques to these samples will be truly ground breaking and will help determine the age and tectonic settings of these islands. The smallest island of the De Long Archipelago; ...
... All members of Oden’s crew, the helicopter crew, and the scientific party are thanked for their commitment to making this cruise so successful. LOMROG III was the last cruise to the area north of Greenland as part of the Continental ...
... The Maitri Research Station. About 20 people spend the winter here each season. They carry out tasks such as taking magnetic, seismic and meteorological measurements, and they also take care of the operation of the MARA radar. Photo: ...
... of oceanic heat fluxes during sea ice melt and formation. Aerial photo of RV Polarstern anchored to an ice floe making one of the eight ice stations during the PS92 TRANSSIZ expedition. Photo: Christian Katlein The CTD-Rosette coming up ...
... it also contributes to improved process understanding and development of models simulating glacier evolution. Checking the sleds on our way to the glacier. Photo: Ward van Pelt A new automatic weather station installed at 520 m above sea ...
... Hagelin The aim is to measure the levels of whole body vibrations the icebreaker crew is exposed to in Arctic icebreaking conditions. The levels of exposure will be compared to levels of acceptance published by the Swedish Work Environment ...
... from shallow sea sources to the atmosphere is thought to be an important part of the global carbon cycle. By making continuous measurements of carbon dioxide and methane above the Arctic sea surface, we will improve our understanding of ...
... and the other is to boost the radar signal so that we can also capture the weak reflections. Per Holmlund is working with the radar antennas on board Oden. Photo: Hanna Hagelin Oden is breaking ice. Photo: Per Holmlund Stockholm University
... change is occurring faster in Western Antarctica than in many other places on Earth. The glacier in Potter Cove on King George Island has receded nearly one kilometre over the last 50 years. Glacier melting exposes marine organisms to lower ...
... and ice drift around the icebreakers. The ice drift is normally calculated by comparing two satellite images and looking at how the sea ice has moved and changed between the two time points when the images were acquired. Data gathered during ...
... an inquisitive wolverine along one of our sampling transects. Photo: Fredrik Dalerum This summer we have been working in the sub-Arctic mountains near Abisko in northern Sweden. This is an area where the boreal forest meets the Arctic. ...
... University, Sweden John Prytherch Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Mentor Michael Tjernström Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Sweden The expedition roused my interest ...
... the Swedish icebreaker Oden and the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent, one vessel was able to focus on breaking the ice while the other could collect data. This proved to be a successful concept, resulting in extremely good, ...
... we can see which landmasses were located close together. Sampling the rocks of the area. Stephen and Mark are marking up samples and taking notes. Photo: Emelie Axelsson There are very few people living in the Arctic region and thus ...
... back across the Kara Sea to Taymyr. Yet in Taymyr many of the characteristic features of the Uralian orogen are lacking the evidence of Palaeozoic oceans, subduction complexes and volcanic arc magmatism that dominate the orogeny further ...
... and age of the ”Isayeva Line”, also known as the North Taymyr Line. This is an icemarginal zone marking the southern boundary of an ice sheet coming from the Kara Sea and it was described by Isayeva (1984), amongst others. ...
... work has moved eastwards to Nordaustlandet and the neighbouring areas of the Barents Shelf. Stefan Sandelin is working with tectonics and Alexander Larionov with isotope age and provenance studies (Figure 1). Having recently established ...
... expedition, which has today become in Sweden the most widely known and artistically portrayed grand tragic undertaking of any Swedish explorer and scientist. The Andree camp at Andreeneset is of course a historic site of special interest ...
... evidence of at least one glacial advance, with ice moving from the north and with glaciotectonic thrusting and stacking of the underlying sediments. Another diamicton, interpreted as a subglacial deposit was documented in the upper part of ...
... Alfredsson, John Prytherch and Paul Zeiger. Photo: Lars Tano The floating aerosol chamber and the bubble camera making measurements in a patch of open water. Photo: Helen Czerski Matt Salter checking data from the floating aerosol chamber, ...
