... corer from a small lake in southern Greenland. Photo: Nicolaj Krog Larsen. The objective of this project is to investigate how the ice margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet reacted to earlier periods of warming, the interrelationship between ...
... Photo: Tomas Meijer The Swedish mountain range became included in the SWEDARCTIC research programme during the International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY). Although the Swedish mountain range is considered as a southern offshoot from the ...
Icebergs in Hinlopen strait, leaving Kinnvika after closure of the station, midnight 15 August 2009. Photo: Veijo Pohjola The activities in Kinnvika 2009 Kinnvika was a project within the ...
... Right: Map of Spitsbergen, study area marked. Background Lomonosovfonna is an ice field extending over 1 000 km2, situated on the eastern part of Spitsbergen. Several outlet glaciers flow from the ice field into the adjacent fjords. One of ...
The Airmar 12 kHz transducer is lowered into a melt pond in order to make a bathymetric sounding. Photo: Henriette Skourup Highest priority was given to the acquisition of bathymetric data. Oden is ...
3D view of the area covered by new multibeam bathymetric data. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO ) is shown as background. The second ...
... Romberg, as on LOMROG I, mounted in the engine room close to the centre of mass of Oden (picture 1). The processed data yields gravity values with an accuracy and resolution that are dependent on the prevailing speed of Oden and ice ...
CTD station on sea ice. The SBE 19plusV2 CTD (centre) has just been retrieved. The mobile winch (blue) holds 2 000 m of ...
Ice coring procedure. A hand powered KO VACS ice corer was used to create a hole for in situ measurements of CO2 flux and to obtain samples for biological analysis. To prevent contamination, ...
This study addresses the investigation of marine bacterial communities in largely unexplored north polar habitats, as well as the isolation of bioactive ...
... To capture the microorganisms from the marine, snow or ice samples, the main procedure consists of a series of filtration steps. The resulting filters are re-suspended in buffer and stored at -80°C onboard Oden until the end of the cruise. ...
Oden reached the geographical North Pole on August 22 at 21:04 (UTC). The arrival at the North Pole was celebrated by raising the flags of the countries represented onboard ...
Hydrobios MultiNet hanging from the A-frame at the aft-deck. The MultiNet is used for sampling mesozooplankton from five different depth intervals in the water column. ...
The rebuilt DC-3 landed outside Wasa on 17 November 2007. Photo: Per Holmlund In late November 2007 four Japanese and four Swedish vehicles started out to meet on the Polar Plateau in late December for ...
... which detect photons, cosmological phenomena are studied to increase our understanding of the Universe. Extraterrestrial neutrinos are produced in connection with energetic events such as supernovae. The neutrino is an ...
Ingemar Wolf checking the MARA antenna array during a storm. Photo: Sheila Kirkwood MARA is a radar that measures winds, turbulence and layered structures in the lower atmosphere, below 10–15 km altitude, and in a cloud layer ...
The participants of Oden Southern Ocean 2007/08. Photo: Swedish Polar Research Secretariat The main objective for the icebreaker Oden’s visit to the Southern Ocean was to open up a shipping lane for the supply ...
The participants of Oden Southern Ocean 2007/08. Photo: Swedish Polar Research Secretariat The main objective for the icebreaker Oden’s visit to the Southern Ocean was to open up a shipping lane for the supply ...
Ph.D. student Frigga Kruse (team 1) documenting remains of a Scottish mining- and prospecting camp at Richard Lagoona, Prince Charles Foreland. Photo: Dag Avango LASHIPA, Large Scale Historical Exploitation of Polar Areas, ...
Slope angle measurements performed by Henrik Johansson and Mats Olvmo (standing). Photo: Team Expedition Svalbard -08 Water is a prerequisite for life as we know it. Without water the ...
