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... and isotopic analyses. The expedition is organised by the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR). Swedish participant Jaroslaw Majka Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University

An expedition to study cultural history in Svalbard and nearby islands, and how these monuments and sites have been affected by human activity in the ...

... Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St. Petersburg, and the biologists Love Dahlén from the Swedish Natural History Museum and Kenneth Andersen from Copenhagen University. And then myself, Per Möller, leader of the expedition ...

... whole situation was a bit bizarre! But the food was good, and I think I saw the nicest looking toilets east of the Urals! The helicopter flight for sampling continued Friday morning and in total we covered some 600 kilometres each day ...

... then Monday evening we had a night flight for 4.5 hours to Krasnoyarsk, the capital of that vast region east of the Ural Mountains having the same name. We landed early Tuesday morning local time in beautiful sunrise and 13 °C. We then had a ...

... (like the deformed limestone in the picture). The usual samples collected for provenance, thermochronology, structural investigations, etc. All our samples will later be shipped to Stockholm, and then the lab work will begin (see ...

... 21 July 2012 Off to recce to the Devonian-Carboniferous (?) limestone contact – very important for understanding the Uralian mountain building event here in Taimyr. Late arrivals of the reindeer population continue to pass by – these big boys ...

... on the maps. What a surprise that we instead found a highly deformed conglomerate which compositionally and structurally looks very much like the Vimsodden conglomerate in Wedell Jarlsberg Land. We also recognized the ”ugly” ...

... Trollstabbane and around the southern slopes of Kistefjellet. After some time we figured out the general structural style, isoclinal folding from millimetres to kilometres, with a vergence towards the west. We saw most of the ...

... settlement in the valley below. Walking through Pyramiden we saw several public buildings including the old cultural center, swimming pool, and kindergarten. Because the mining in Pyramiden was halted in 1998 all of these buildings were ...

... Norske’s abandoned mines on the side of the mountain. Since it was built before 1946, the mine is protected as cultural heritage. Protected sites represent valuable history and the legacy of Longyearbyen’s development as a town. Even though ...

... modest wooden houses of Ny-Ålesund’s previous incarnation as a mining settlement. Flanking the village are the cultural heritage remains of tragedy, triumph and folly: on the southern outskirts beneath Zeppelin Mountain are the blackened ...

... and the seals along Swedish coastlines, this  will improve our understanding of how viruses circulate in natural populations, helping us make better models to predict disease outbreaks. Video made by: Tero Härkönen, Jonas Teilmann ...

... wetlands/permafrost (so-called biogenic as bacterial breakdown produces the methane) vs a deeper petroleum/natural gas (so-called thermogenic) source. Samples are also analysed onboard for nutrients, dissolved organic carbon, ...

... red telephone went hot. Who is testing nuclear explosions? Bombs? Cold war, hot telephone. War cooled down, a natural phenomenon. A mystery, and still is. Few have been there. No data. Will we be able to collect some? Theory is that there ...

First ice – in the fog. Now we are leaving the open seas and venturing into Oden’s natural environment. We cannot see far in the fog, but the ice is here, and the floes are getting more frequent. There is a ...

... about 10 °C and a cloudless sky. We made a great discovery today – Ben’s hammer was found in the terrain. Naturally we found some fossils – ammonites, clam, and parts of fish. We also did some further geological sequence ...

This summer Patrícia Pečnerová from The Swedish Museum of Natural History, is going to Wrangel Island. Originally it was a small hill in the Siberian mainland, but about 10,000 years ago ...

”Life on Oden has taken a different turn in the past ten days, and it seems to be a very natural evolutionary step from where we were at the halfway point. The ship has a completely different feel about it, and I ...

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