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After the first week or so, when objectives, locations, methods deployed, not to mention sleep patterns, were in a state of constant change, we’ve now settled into a phase ...

... though, between routine and monotony. It’s true: every day is essentially a copy of the previous. I come on shift at midnight. Take a look at where we are, what we’ve covered in the hours I’ve been asleep. Though it’s only ocean and more ...

Just as there’s a whole new way of life on this boat, there’s a whole new language. Acronyms just start rolling off the tongue. We’re wrapping up the huge area of multibeam ...

Gruppfoto efter att flaggan hissats. Foto: Lars-Göran Vanhainen Den 26 januari är Republikens dag. Då firas antagandet av Indiens ...

We’re back in the west (or east, depending on which way you look at things). The 2nd leg of my part of the cruise has begun. The internet has returned. The Sun’s made an appearance for the ...

... Frozen(ish). In the last six weeks (yes, six weeks today!) we’ve seen a whole host of many weird and wonderful forms that ice takes in and around the oceans. The giant, imposing Ross Ice Shelf, a floating body fed from the interior grounded ...

I asked for some wind, to disturb the forming sea ice and give us some open water and clean data. 40 knot winds and breaking waves was not what I had in mind. The blue and white skies and seas look ...

At 5 am on Monday, 45 days of science came to an end. We’d shifted our plans with the winds in our final survey area, and I ...

Land is in sight! The transit has been remarkably kind to us, the weather seeming to behave more or less as forecast. We’ve ducked and weaved and zigzagged our way between the pressure ...

Today Sunday 26 July, Swedish Icebreaker Oden steamed into the fjord where Thule Air Base is located on northwestern Greenland. This completes an 18 days long journey from southwestern Sweden to Thule. We have designed ...

Medan besättning och tekniker lämnade Kangerlussuaq för att flyga till isbrytaren Oden, passade många forskare på att planera in arbetsmöten och utforska området – antingen till ...

... After two nights in Kangerlussuaq I think we know the town. But we certainly do not know the amazing surrounding nature! It is rather spectacular, specifically close to the nearby glacier that contains an ice stream that transports ice ...

... have been given 100 rounds of “slugs” by the SPRS. We trained with these during the gun course in May – the idea is that a shotgun is easy to use and the high calibre “slug” will stop a Polar bear dead in its tracks if we find ourselves in a ...

We flew in two shifts this afternoon from the Danish military airstrip at Mestersvig. We got to Mestervig first by Twin Otter aircraft from Constable Point and then packed our gear onto the ...

Forskare och besättning arbetar hårt med att göra all utrustning klar för provtagning. Trots det hårda arbetet så är det många som inte kan låta bli att beundra den ...

... Warm and dry in the sleeping bag, but it means a muddy introduction to the work, or worse being grounded until the weather clears. We all eventually crept out of our tents and sat in the “lounge room” – the huge central tent where we keep ...

The weather has cleared but it is still chilly. Yesterday was certainly not wasted. We climbed up the nearest peak and circled ...

Arctic environments have simple ecosystems, a harsh climate and low human population densities. They are therefore important and useful model systems for evaluating the often ...

... entire passage northward. This happened somewhere around 78°30’N. Every winter Nares Strait fills up with sea ice that forms a quite solid “ice-bridge” between Ellesmere Island in the west and Greenland in the east. The strait usually ...

... on the slope yielded well over 100 specimens of Ophiceras, the most abundant ammonite known from the Wordie Creek Formation. Many of these were also exceptionally preserved, showing the taxonomically important sutures between the internal ...