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Using ancient DNA to study the impact of past climate change on Ice Age species
Steppe bison skull found at Camp 3. Photo: Love Dalén The last Ice Age was a period of well-documented and significant climatic change. As such, it provides an ideal case ...
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Ice dynamical work on Nordenskiöldbreen/ Lomonosovfonna 2009
... of the earlier drill site to further test if local conditions inf luence the records. The route taken was via De Geerdalen, crossing Tempelfjorden into Gipsdalen up to Lomonosovfonna. The ice core team camped on top of Lomonosovfonna, while ...
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LASHIPA 5 – the archaeology of natural resource exploitation and geo-politics on Svalbard
... from the early 20th century. The team located and documented sites at Sassenfjorden, Colesbukta and Longyeardalen. The results clarified the location and design of important industrial facilities and opened new avenues for ...
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Collecting fossils at Svalbard: A bad hunt in the Eocene Forest but a good catch in the Triassic Ocean
Over patterned ground aiming for the Triassic of Vikinghögda, Sassendalen. Photo: Mikael Axelsson When the large reptiles died out at the cretaceous/tertiary boundary, the mammals rose to ...
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Climate-ecosystem interactions
... to evaluate effects of changes in climate and reindeer grazing. Another similar study is aiming to assess multidecadal past vegetation changes. This study was conducted by locating and revisiting sites that have been used for ...
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Kinnvika – A multidisciplinary and multinational platform for Arctic warming and impact research during the fourth International Polar Year
... of days in the pack ice at Wijdefjorden, and had to return to Longyearbyen. Horyzont was located further south at Magdalenafjorden, and turned back at the same time. Some of the teams had a chance to try a few scientific exercises ...
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MARA – Moveable Atmospheric Radar for Antarctica
... of noctilucent clouds have not found any significant increase over the last 40 years (Kirkwood et al., 2003 and 2007, Dalin et al., 2006) while analysis of satellite data (DeLand et al., 2007) has suggested a significant increase. However, ...
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LASHIPA 4 – Natural resources and geo-politics from 1600 to the present, cases from Grønfjorden, Svalbard
... DePasqual and Ulf Gustafsson mapping remains of Arctic Coal Company test pits at the northwestern entrance of Adventdalen, as part of the field research of LASHIPA participants from MTU. Photo: Dag Avango. The LASHIPA project has conducted ...
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Use of soapstone from the first settlement of Greenland until the present day
... Feltrapport nr. 21. National museum of Denmark. Gulløv, H.C. (ed.). 2004. Grønlands forhistorie. København: Gyldendal.
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LASHIPA 3 – Industry and its impacts in the polar areas from 1600 to present
... cent. mining and whaling), 3) Heerfjellet (20th cent. mining), 4) Bohemanneset (Rijspburg, 20th cent. mining), 5) Gipsdalen (20th cent. mining). The LASHIPA project will analyse a set of research problems pertaining to industrial development ...
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Isla de los Estados – Quaternary geology and palaeoclimatology at the end of the world
... and its highest peaks reach approx. 800 m a.s.l. Its bedrock geology and general morphology have been described by Dalziel et al. (1974) and Caminos and Nullo (1979). The expedition travelled to the island with the chartered ketch Ocean ...
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GPS site Svea – a Swedish reference station in Heimefrontfjella, Dronning Maud Land
... The site location of Station Svea is: latitude 74°34’33.8’S, longitude 11°13’30.8’W and elevation 1 261.2 m (ellipsoidal height) in ITRF. Technical specifications are as follows: Receiver type is Trimble R7 and antenna type is Ashtech Dorne ...
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Palaeontological fieldwork on Spitsbergen – in the footsteps of Erik Stensiö
... Stensiö did geological work usually provided the logistics. In the years 1912, 1913, 1915 and 1916 he worked in Sassendalen, situated in the inner part of Isfjorden. This beautiful valley is some 30 km long and 5 km wide with a flat valley ...
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The development of the Arctic Ocean
... Independence Fjord group are sparse, with only a lower age limit provided by the approx. 1 380 Ma intrusive Zig-Zag Dal basalt suite (Kalsbeek and Jepsen, 1984). Studies of detrital minerals in this group will provide further age ...
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Impact of ultraviolet radiation and grazers on benthic primary producers in Antarctica
Dallmann Laboratory and Jubany base, 62°14’S, 58°40’W, Potter Cove, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. ...
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Atmospheric measurements at the Swedish antarctic station Wasa
... months and we will investigate the suggested connection between planetary wave activity and the observed decadal variability of noctilucent clouds (NLC or PMC) and polar mesospheric summer echoes (PMSE), which could not yet be ...
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Biogeochemistry, trace elements and isotopes in Arctic Ocean margins
... be analyzed for the particulate concentration, whereas the filter passing is analyzed for dissolved phase and colloidal nanoparticles. Ultrafiltration – This method enables a fine pore-sized membrane of 3 000 Dalton (molecular weight) ...
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Recent changes in land cover and carbon balance in Beringia
... carbon balance at the landscape level. The key objective of this project is to determine the patterns of decadal time scale LCC at multiple sites in the Beringia region and to assess the probable impact that these changes have had on ...
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The role of mediumsized predators in the arctic ecosystem
... foxes seem to avoid contact with red foxes, in particular during reproduction (Tannerfeldt et al., 2002, Dalén et al., 2004). The fact that red foxes have become more numerous in productive mountain tundra areas may therefore ...
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Collecting for the Swedish Museum of Natural History
... the skeleton of a Harlequin Duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, shot by the field guide in the morning. Photo: Fredrik Dalerum. Fishing was by means of gill nets and rods. Large fish were individually marked, photos taken and a piece of muscle ...