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Skolfröken tar vattenprover
... vara 100 meter bort, men i själva verket är det flera kilometer. Det arbetas dygnet runt och det som gör att vi har någorlunda koll på dygnet är mattiderna. Då samlas man och chansen finns att bekanta sig med personer från hela norra ...
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The rain hits again!
... the camp…. It has rained constantly for three days. We sat in camp and sorted through our fossils for shipping. Grzegorz ventured out in the rain to take some samples for laboratory analysis. He also managed to get upriver to that final ...
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The black lake
... yesterday after dinner. We climbed up from our camp at 820 m to the snow line on Celsius Bjerg and fanned out: Grzegorz concentrating on the sandstone blocks to look for footprints; Henning and Ben for outcrops of black shale that mark the ...
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First glimpses of early tetrapod ecology
... a huge amount of time and reduce the risk of injury either from rocks or unstable snow. The photos of the tracks Grzegorz has found also look promising. He will return with Lasse tomorrow to make a silicon mould. If correct these would be ...
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The Celsius summit
... to split our team in two so that we can achieve both of our Celsius objectives before we leave in three days. Grzegorz and Lasse have therefore gone down slope to make the silicon mould of the tetrapod track way while Ben and Henning made ...
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Packing up and shipping out
... over the fjord but we were still bright and clear at high altitude. All the specimens were carefully packed and Grzegorz retrieved the now cured silicon mould ready for transport. We had a great “last supper” in the sun. The snow had also ...
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Skolfrökens återblick och framtidshopp
... tidigare, ligger på det öppna vattnet. Vi har varit borta länge! Jag ska dela in mina upplevelser i fyra olika kategorier som bilderna illustrerar: fantastiska vyer, tillvaron ombord, aktuell forskning och fältarbetet i land. Fantastiska ...
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Tillbaka till Amundsenhavet
... salt och relativt tungt djupvatten, så kallat cirkumpolärt djupvatten. En trolig orsak till förtunningen av glaciärtungorna är att de smälter underifrån på grund av att det varma vattnet cirkulerar in under isen. Att förstå hur denna ...
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I Skottsbergs fotspår
... i morgon, och det tar ungefär 3–4 dagar innan vi är framme vid Sydshetlandsöarna. För tillfället är det 6–8 m höga vågor i passagen, så vi räknar med en guppig resa. Nationalparken Torres del Paine där Nordenskjöld var en av de tidiga ...
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Dåligt väder innebär ytterligare förseningar
Anders och Mikael på väg ut från Punta Arenas tillsammans med forskarkollegor från INACH. Det chilenska militärfartyget AP Aquiles tar oss till olika baser runt den Antarktiska halvön. I gruppen ...
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We've landed in Greenland
... Greenland. We are technician Lasse, from the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, and researchers Benjamin Kear, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki and Henning Blom, from Uppsala University. The journey went as planned, with only a slight delay. We have ...
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Ett pussel med oändligt många bitar
... vattenytan. Med hjälp av avancerad sonarutrustning kan man sedan från båda fartygen avlyssna och följa hur seismikvågorna studsar mot havsbottnen och även ner i sedimenten. På skärmarna visas seismikdata. Foto: Åsa Lindgren Man flyger även ...
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Svea return
Dinner at Svea before night duty. Photo: Karin Winarve Before the others had time to wake up all rolled all of the house elfs (Pär, Stefan and Karin) down the hill in the blue cars and we set out on this trip to Svea. This was the most practical...
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Polar bear in base camp
... further away. She turned around several times and walked around our house at 100m distance. One of the parkkeepers, Igor, came running with a shovel and flare in an attempt to scare the bear, but he did not set of the flare. Then we all ...
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Oväntad vändning, vi är till havs!
... Troll gick enligt plan. Här blev det kära återseenden med Karin, Mats-Ola, Sven och andra gamla vänner och kollegor. Vi tillbringade tre dagar på Troll i strålande väder i väntan på att det skulle bli vår tur att få hämtning med ...
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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 are determined by the ambient temperature. Many...
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MARA – Moveable Atmospheric Radar for Antarctica 2012/13
... Bird echoes are often seen in the radar signal. Here we are trying to capture them on video so we can develop algorithms to count them. Photo: Sheila Kirkwood Data from MARA Knut and Alice Wallenberg’s Foundation Swedish Research ...
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LASHIPA 6 – archaeological field investigations of whaling stations at South Georgia
... with names on, others had smaller wooden crosses without names. Did the differences reflect different social categories at the station? Photo: Gustav Rossnes The fieldwork The expedition was based on the sailing ship Seal, operated by ...
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Past impact of warming on the Greenland Ice Sheet – second field season
... Age (LIA, 16th–19th century) along the southernmost part of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This region is known for its vigorous response to climate change, such as the Little Ice Age and the recent warming in the 20th and 21st century. Another ...
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MARA – Atmospheric radar at Wasa/Aboa, Antarctica
... several storms. The storm winds generated huge waves over the nunatak on which MARA is located, and these generated vigorous vertical mixing. Analysis is underway in collaboration with scientists from University of Helsinki and Finnish ...