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Getting fat in Alaska – how migratory shorebirds prepare for trans-global flights
... Tutakoke River Field Camp, a tent camp situated on the coast about 500 m from the shoreline. In periods of severe tidal flooding (see below) we also worked at the Kanaryarmiut Field Station about 25 km eastnortheast of Tutakoke. One person ...
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Evolutionary consequences of the Pleistocene glacial cycles
A pika, Ochotona hyberborea. Photo: Love Dalén Scientific background Species with sympatric geographical distributions can be expected to interact with each other in ...
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Expedition summary: Beringia - changes in climate and ecosystem
... Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, France Katarina Gårdfeldt Department of Chemistry, Gothenburg University Sweden Helene Hodal Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø Norway Emil Jeansson Department of Chemistry, Gothenburg ...
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Expedition summary: Beringia - ecology and evolution
... Animal Ecology, Lund University Sweden Melissa Chierici Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University Sweden Fredrik Dalerum Department of Zoology, Stockholm University Sweden Anne Dekinga Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Texel, ...
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Expedition summary: Beringia - geological and ecological history
An arctic ground squirrel, Spermophilus paryii. Photo: Love Dalén The way in which the Earth’s continents have moved across the face of the planet – tectonic evolution – has ...
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Air-earth-current observations to study solar wind effects on the global electric circuit
... field generators. These include the action of the solar wind (ions and electrons flowing out from the Sun) and tidal wind systems in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, between altitudes of about 50 km and 200 km. Since disturbances on ...
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Impact of ultraviolet radiation on benthic primary producers in Antarctica
... of ambient (and enhanced) UVR on the succession of micro- and macroalgae will be determined in the rocky intertidal in Potter Cove on King George Island, Antarctica. Background Marine macroalgae are the most important primary producers ...
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A cosmogenic approach to the glacial history of Greenland
... a review and reappraisal. Quaternary Science Reviews 18. 373-392. Lasca, N.P. 1969. The surficial geology of Skeldal, Mesters Vig, Northeast Greenland. Meddelelser om Grönland 176(3), 56 pp. Miller, G.H., Wolfe, A.P., Steig, E.J., ...
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In preparation for Beringia 2005 - Alaska
... discussions, presentations and field excursions. During the trip back we had the opportunity to travel by truck the Dalton highway from Prudhoe Bay to Fairbanks, visiting Toolik Lake en route. Our reconnaissance trip ended in Anchorage. ...
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The timing and origin of granitoid migmatites of NW Spitsbergen
... zircon datings of Caledonian granitoid rocks from Albert I Land, northwest Spitsbergen. Polar research 15, 153-165. Dallmann, W. K., Ohta, Y., Elvevold, S., and Blomeier, D. 2002. Bedrock map of Svalbard and Jan Mayen 1:750 000. Tromsø: ...
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Studying ice stream dynamics in relation to climate change in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
Basecamp at Kibergdalen. Photo: Jim Hedfors Aim of the project Ever since the research station Wasa was built in Dronning Maud Land (DML) in ...
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Air-earth-current observations to study solar wind effects on the global electric circuit
... generators. These include the action of the solar wind (ions and electrons flowing out from the Sun) and tidal wind systems in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, between about 50 km and 200 km altitudes. Since changes in solar activity ...
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Exotic terranes of Svalbard
... in the region about 400 million years ago. We also sampled the basement currently exposed in the region (Richarddalen and Montblanc complexes) in order to compare their ages and chemical compositions. Correlations between fossil-bearing ...
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Distribution and dispersal of lichens in subcontinental Antarctica
... 2002 Participants Principal investigator Anders Telenius Department of Biology and Chemical Engineering, Mälardalen University Västerås, Sweden
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TEDAP (Timan Exposure DAting Project): Latest update on late Pleistocene glaciations in northern Russia
... orientation and is typically 40 metres high, although it occasionally rises to 80 metres. The combination of tidal coastal erosion and permafrozen sediments results in strong erosion and well-exposed sections. In 2001 we collected a ...
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Microplates of Taymyr, northern Siberia
... Arc rocks are metamorphosed to greenschist facies and are over-thrust to the north-west by an amphibolite facies bimodal intrusive complex exhibiting magma mingling textures. To the south-east, continental sediments in fault contact with the ...
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Bacteria and viruses in the Arctic Ocean
... water-column microbes in the sea. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 10, 257–263. Bergh, Ø., Børsheim, K.Y., Bratvak, G. and Heldal, M. 1989. High abundance of viruses found in aquatic environments. Nature 340, 467–468. Giovannoni, S.J., Britschgi, ...
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Water mass transformations in the Arctic Mediterranean Sea and their implications for the ocean circulation
... transported on deck. Oden was stopped several times because of heavy ice, and the ship often had to wait for the tidal currents to turn and the ice to loosen. In the open water the work was complicated by heavy sea, especially towards the ...
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TripleJunction – Northern Russia, a junction for sea and ice during the late Pleistocene
... fall. Mid Weichselian marine inundation In the coastal rim of Chyorskaya and Mezen Bays characteristic marine sub-tidal sediments are exposed between two till beds, both younger than the Eemian. The optical stimulated luminescence results ...
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The Biogeochemistry Programme
... many different forms of filtration, ranging from small cross-flow ultrafiltration systems to sample submicron colloidal particles for the Element Biogeochemistry Programme projects to the 300 kg Ceraflo tangential-flow filtration system, in ...