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IceCube
... reach the computer cluster on the upper floor. Photo: Klas Hultqvist IceCube is a neutrino telescope built in the ice at the geographic South Pole, next to the American Amundsen-Scott Station. Over 5,000 optical sensors have been installed ...
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Rephotography – a dialogue with history in an Arctic landscape
... How can an environmentally oriented, photographic humanistic perspective, applied in interdisciplinary cooperation, give visual shape to events that occur in north-western Spitsbergen? Visual materials directly and concretely ...
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Consequences of Siberian permafrost thawing for Lena River transport of carbon and metals
... to Aldan River. Photo: Roman Petrov The following short report describes the fieldwork conducted in the project Climate warming in Siberian Permafrost Regions: tracing the delivery of carbon and trace metals to the Arctic Ocean – the Lena ...
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Oden Arctic Technology Research Cruise 2012
Icebreaker Oden. Photo: Swedish Polar Research Secretariat How does ice impinge on floating offshore structures in the Arctic? This is an important research question, because ...
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Hot fossils in a cold land: early Cambrian stem group bilaterians from Antarctica
We aim to describe, systematically and for the first time, the early Cambrian faunas of Antarctica, as well as their evolutionary and ...
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Circulation of warm ocean water inducing glacier melt in the Amundsen Sea
Emperor penguin. Photo: Christian Stranne The ocean freshwater balance of the Antarctic shelves is currently changing, at least partly in response to the surging and melting of the ...
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Cardiovascular control mechanisms
The view is magnificent when you reach the ice edge and can see the open water. Photo: Fredrik Jutfelt Like amphibians, reptiles, and all invertebrates, fish are ectotherms whose body temperatures ...
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MARA: Moveable Atmospheric Radar for Antarctica
... was moved into place by the Norwegian logistics team. Photo: Sheila Kirkwood Do we really understand the global circulation of the upper 60–100 km of the atmosphere? Do small-scale processes cause significant mixing of air between different ...
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Environmental work at the Swedish Wasa research station
The Wasa Research Station. Photo: Cecilia Selberg Environmental mapping of the Wasa Research Station in Antarctica began this season. This ...
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Neoproterozoic mountain building in southern and central Svalbard
Grab-and-run sampling while the helicopter is waiting at Cuvervillefjellet, Sørkapp Land. Photo: Henning Lorenz The Neoproterozoic Orogeny in the Arctic (NOA-Svalbard) project ...
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The Buotankaga river traverse
Figure 1: Mesozoic deformation in Taymyr. Deformation across Taymyr may be diachronous, synchronous, or separate in time from Verkhoyansk ...
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Ice extent on the Taymyr Peninsula in time and space
... Photo: Johanna Anjar The Arctic is currently undergoing rapid and pervasive change, and the mechanisms driving climate change in northern latitudes appear to be gaining strength. As a result, knowledge of earlier climate change is ...
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Media crew on board Oden during LOMROG III
Kenneth Sorento, right, and Martin Breum at the North Pole 22 August 2012. The media team was invited on board to cover the expedition and science as independent ...
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Monitoring biodiversity in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
Göran Thor and a transect at Steinnabben. Photo: Calle Lundberg How does human activity affect biodiversity in continental Antarctica? In this harsh ...
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Antibiotic-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in several Antarctic bird populations
... extent to which the current development of antibiotic resistance and its environmental spread have affected remote natural environments far from human activity. Most research into the epidemiology of antibiotic resistance has focused on ...
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Physics breakthrough with IceCube at the South Pole
... the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of cosmic origin the physics breakthrough of the year. This discovery was made at the IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole. IceCube is currently the world’s leading neutrino telescope. The ...
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Wasa research station: maintenance and service
Neumayer-Station III. Photo: Swedish Polar Research Secretariat Last season the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat began maintenance ...
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MARA – Moveable Atmospheric Radar for Antarctica 2012/13
Weather balloon with an ozone sonde ready for release. Photo: Sheila Kirkwood To better predict the future climate over ...
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The frozen garden of Eden: paleogene mammals from Seymour Island, Antarctica
The fossil skull fixed and packaged for transport. Thomas Mörs posing beside it. Photo: Thomas Mörs What are the origins of Antarctic Paleogene terrestrial mammals, and do their biodiversity patterns reflect a severe cooling ...
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The role of zooplankton in open Arctic water masses
Water fleas of the species Calanus hyperboreus. Photo: Pauline Snoeijs Leijonmalm The aim of this project is to better ...