... the ISSS-08 was the first vessel to manage to squeeze through Vilkitskiy Strait in 2008. Photo: Jorien Vonk The motivation for ISSS-08 was to alleviate the scarcity of observational data on transport and processing of water, sediment and ...
Over patterned ground aiming for the Triassic of Vikinghögda, Sassendalen. Photo: Mikael Axelsson When the large reptiles died ...
The water has eroded the stones during a long time. Photo: Lars Holmer Brachiopods (two-valved organisms comparable to living ...
The scientist measured the glaciers that are still large and active. Salajekna is the largest glacier in Sweden and is located in the Sulitelma Massif. Photo: ...
Arctic fox was one of the species that was studied during the expedition Arctic Sweden. Photo: Tomas Meijer The overarching aim of this project is to assess ...
Mobile tower measuring birch forest CO2 exchange with the atmosphere used in different locations during the summer of 2008 as a part of the special IPY compaign. Photo: Michal ...
Archaeological excavation of a 5 200 year old settlement close to Lake Luspasjaure in the county of Västerbotten. Photo: Thomas B. Larsson The ...
Archaeological excavation of a 5 200 year old settlement close to Lake Luspasjaure in the county of Västerbotten. Photo: Thomas B. Larsson The ...
Rock sampling from erratic boulder with hammer and chisel at the outer coast near Sarqarssuaq. Photo: Nicolaj K. Larsen The objective of this ...
... weeks, drifting with the ice. Photo: Thorsten Mauritsen To enhance our understanding of clouds in the Arctic climate system, the project Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study (ASCOS) left Longyearbyen on Svalbard in early August 2008 on the ...
... these microbes are beneficial, others are harmful, while the vast majority are not known to have either positive or negative effects on plants. My work in Kamchatka focused on two plantmicrobe interactions that are beneficial for the plant: ...
Snowmobiles are nessesary for safe transportation. Photo: Veijo Pohjola Kinnvika is a project within the International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY) initiative ...
The variability of salinity (S), sea surface temperature (SST, °C), chlorophyll a fluorescence (chl, μg/L) and oxygen (μmol/kg) along the cruise track. Indications ...
Map of Dronning Maud Land showing existing and possible future seismographic stations. Introduction In December 2006, a seismic recording station was deployed at the Swedish research facility Svea in ...
Time series of 1-minute data from 17 to 21 December 2006 for partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2, ppm), dissolved oxygen (O2, μmol/kg) and ...
Sven Lidström, the first Swede to overwinter at the South Pole for 40 years. Photo: Tomas Gustafsson. During the 1990s, the AMANDA collaboration demonstrated the ...
Hans Nilsson and Ingemar Wolf at work setting up the MARA antenna field. Photo: Hans Nilsson. MARA is an atmospheric radar which measures echoes from ...
Refuelling the POLAR 2 aircraft during a stop at Kohnen station at almost 3 km altitude on the Antarctic continental ice sheet. Aerosol probes mounted directlyunder the ...
Digging out the AWS and doing maintenance. Photo: Paul Smeets. Since 1997/98 IMAU has been operating Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) in western Dronning Maud Land, of which one is situated close to Wasa (AWS 5) and ...
Crabeater seals. Photo: Brent Stewart. The aim of this project was to document the diversity, distribution and relative ...
