The Arctic sea ice with melt ponds. Photo: Pauline Snoeijs Leijonmalm Sampling large amounts of water in and beneath the sea ice. Photo: Pauline Snoeijs Leijonmalm Very little is known about the microbial communities ...
... and why has Arctic sea ice cover varied in the recent geologic past? In the project Palaeoceanography of the Arctic – Water Masses, Sea Ice, and Sediments (PAWS), we utilise the new sea ice proxy IP25, a biomarker from ice algae, together ...
Ear-tagged Arctic fox on a windy day in June 2011. Photo: Gustaf Samelius This study examines various aspects of the population dynamics of arctic foxes and how they vary with fluctuations in lemming abundance – the main food of arctic foxes in ...
... taking notes near the radar equipment. Photo: Kilian Krüger How does the extent of the permafrost affect groundwater flow paths at different times of the year? The ground in the Arctic is largely frozen year round, so the groundwater ...
Abandoned research station, Deception Island – a source of historical knowledge about the conditions of Antarctic research. Photo: Dag Avango ...
Satheesan Karathazhiyath prepares a payload for a balloon flight for studies of atmospheric parameters in the troposphere ...
Mining pick at the former entrance of an asbestos mine, Recherchefjorden. Photo: Pia Leminen The objective of the expedition was to ...
... Ross Sea on the way towards Pine Island Bay. Photo: Martin Jakobsson This project addresses the following questions: What was the timing of the West Antarctic ice sheet’s (WAIS) retreat since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), 20,000 years ago, ...
... installed on Oden. Inside is thethree tonne ice block and neutrino detectors. Photo: Allan Hallgren Researchers at the geographic South Pole have built IceCube, the world’s largest neutrino observatory. One reason to search for ...
A copepod (about 1 mm long) with bright red photoprotective pigmentation (carotenoids). Photo: Hans Berggren The ozone hole above Antarctica has increased considerably during the last ...
Polarstern in Antarctic darkness. Photo: Stefan Hendricks This project aims to understand how changes in global climate will affect the processes determining halocarbon production and cycling in polar areas and interactions at the snow-sea ...
Katarina Abrahamsson sampling for halocarbons at an ice station. Anna Wåhlin This project aims to determine the importance ...
... measurements. Photo: Anna Wåhlin The glaciers emptying into the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica have displayed accelerated thinning in recent decades. There are clear signs that this is caused by increased ocean-induced melting, related to ...
Sea-ice and snow sampling. Photo: Agneta Fransson What is the effect of sea ice and glacial meltwater on the CO2 exchange and calcium carbonate saturation state (i.e., Ω)? We ...
Weddell seal basking in the sun. Photo: Karin Hårding We have investigated the health status of three endemic seal species, i.e., the Ross, Weddell, and crabeater seals. Our main interest was ...
Peng Yi and Keliang Shi were landed on the sea ice for collection of snow samples. Photo: Patricia L. Yager Our aim on this expedition was to use iodine isotopes (129I and 127I) and species in the water and air of ...
... image of DNA-stained Southern Ocean bacteria. Photo: Inga Richert We are part of the Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition (ASPIRE) project, which aims to investigate climate controls of carbon fluxes in one of the ...
The invasive predatory King Crab (Lithodidae) on the slope near the Antarctic Peninsula, captured by the SeaBed camera. Global climate ...
Nathaniel B. Palmer docked on ice during a short break from sampling in the Amundsen Sea. Photo: Julie Dinasquet The ...
... mammals of the southern hemisphere evolve and spread? The record of Antarctic mammals and other terrestrial vertebrates is still very poor. New specimens of mammals, other vertebrates, and fossil plants would give a more precise picture ...
