Tillökning i fältgruppen
... på vattenytan och flaxar och prövar vingarna. I sjöarna runt oss finns röding och smålommarnas kacklande hörs över dalgångarna.
Sommaren är slut i Kung Bores land
... orangea färger. Hararna har suttit förunderligt vita, som prickar längs bergsidorna likväl som de vita snögässen i dalgångarna. När vi kom hit var snögässen i full färd att byta fjäderdräkt inför flytten söderut och sprang då undan när vi ...
Skidbladner, the boat that always sails downwind no matter the wind direction
... icebergs from the smaller outlet glaciers calving into the fjord have become stuck and accumulated in masses. The tidal currents across the sill were strong and ice moved like crazy. What appeared to be a relatively clear entrance with ...
Så lämnar vi Petermannfjorden
... inför det faktum att jag fick möjlighet att besöka denna plats på jorden. Dimman döljer fjälltopparna vid Judge Daly Promontory, Ellesmereön, men inte deras spegelbild, när vi reser nedåt i Nares sund. Foto: Amund E. B. Lindberg
I Skottsbergs fotspår
... och Torres del Paine i bakgrunden. Foto: Anders Torstensson Vi kommer att tillbringa 2,5 månader vid det tyska Dallmann-laboratoriet på den argentinska forskningsstationen Carlini. Vårt projekt handlar i första hand om ...
Finally here!
Read the blog post in Swedish. The Dallmann Laboratory. This is where we will stay for the next 10 weeks. Photo: Anders Torstensson Mikael installing air pumps ...
Arctic Islands 2016 has started
... to look at how Arctic herbivores such as reindeer and hares are using different plant species. Photo: Fredrik Dalerum The second field season of our project Arctic Islands has finally started. In this project we are broadly interested ...
First week
... my second day in the field at a location close to Riksgränsen. Christine and the wolverine family. Photo: Fredrik Dalerum While identifying plants in deep concentration, Fredrik Dalerum and I were joined by a curious wolverine and her two ...
A birthday to remember
... Lukas Scholtz celebrating his birthday with a carrot cake close to Suorojavri in Swedish Lapland. Photo: Fredrik Dalerum The weather forecast predicted that we would have a nice day, but of course it came out different. While setting up ...
Living in a cloud!
... blog post in Swedish Gisela and Nedim on their way into the fog to finish the daily plant monitoring. Photo: Fredrik Dalerum Plant monitoring high above Torneträsk during a temporary break in rainfall. Photo: Fredrik Dalerum
Life in the lab
... turn them into computer files. Susana Freire sorting spiders collected during our field activities. Photo: Fredrik Dalerum Each sample, its collection coordinates and other relevant information is entered into our computer database and ...
Ett pussel med oändligt många bitar
... man har observatörer som ständigt håller utkik från bryggan efter marina däggdjur. Ombord på Oden är det kanadensaren Dale Ruben och jag själv som utför denna syssla. När seismiken pågår delar vi in dygnet i sextimmarsskift och en av oss är ...
What is it like to do fieldwork in Antarctica?
The MAGIC-DML field camp on the ice at the mouth of Kibergdalen. Photo: Ola Fredin Inside the mess tent. Photo: Jenny Newall Inside the toilet tent – yes, really! Photo: Jenny Newall ...
Polar explorers achievements
... mountain in the background is called Plogen. Photo: Carl Lundberg Ola E during a tour with our snowmobile from Kibergdalen to Wasa with Calle. 260 kilometers in total, and 8 kilometers in poor visibility, something that would have been ...
Research expedition to Semmeldalen, Svalbard
This summer, researchers from Umeå University will go to Svalbard to investigate how vegetation at high latitudes is responding to the exclusion of grazing animals. Read more about the expedition
Till Svalbard för att undersöka hur betande djur påverkar vegetationen på tundran
I sommar åker forskare från Umeå universitet till Semmeldalen på Svalbard för att inventerat renhägn, platser som är inhägnade för att stänga ute renarna så att de inte kan beta på ...
Back at SANAE IV
... be charged every night. Photo: Fredrik Hägglund Derek and mountainguide Carl are planning how to reach the top of Viddalskollen for sampling. Photo: Fredrik Hägglund Expedition leader Håkan with the beautiful nunatak Istind in the ...
Antibiotic-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in several Antarctic bird populations
... the Antarctic Peninsula. The results will be published in peer-reviewed scientific papers. Skuas. Photo: Jonas Bonnedal Zoonotic Ecology and Epidemiology (ZEE) FORMAS Quark Expeditions Uppsala University
MARA: moveable atmospheric radar for Antarctica
... payload for a balloon flight for studies of atmospheric parameters in the troposphere and stratosphere. Photo: Peter Dalin Do we really understand the global circulation of the upper atmosphere, i.e., at heights of 60–100 km? Do small-scale ...
Physical oceanography
... in the bottom boundary layer. The velocities observed at the mooring generally display considerable variability on tidal to seasonal time scales. Integrating the along-channel velocities with respect to time at the top and bottom levels ...