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Primary and secondary production measurements along the western Antarctic coastline on the Oden platform of opportunity cruise
Approximate transit route of the Oden from South America to McMurdo Station, Ross Island between 12 and 27 December 2006. The aim ...
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Sea-ice observations in the Bellingshausen, Amundsen, and Ross Seas
The objective of this project was to collect systematic, comparative observational data on sea ice morphology and distribution as the polar icebreaker Oden transited through ...
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Tracking Southern Ocean temperature fields
... thermal field in the upper ocean during the spring to summer transition of 2006/07. This work complements transects that are more commonly occupied across the Drake Passage along the WOCE SR3 line south of Tasmania, and between New Zealand ...
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SOLO float studies of depth-structured temperature and salinity profiles in the Southern Ocean
The aim of this project was to deploy six SOLO floats at two locations: near 60°S latitude, and close to the ice edge near 150°W longitude as the Oden transits from South ...
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Records of Antarctic marine vertebrates between Magellan Strait and McMurdo Station
The aim of this project was to document the occurrence of marine mammals and seabirds in the waters of western Antarctica from South America to McMurdo Station, and particularly from Cape Horn to 90°W longitude, by ...
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Persistent organic pollutants in remote areas: Pesticide residues in the Southern Ocean
The crew, science team, educator, and journalist participants of SWEDARP Oden Southern Ocean Expedition 2006/07(with Explorers Club Flag No. 84). ...
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LASHIPA 4 – Natural resources and geo-politics from 1600 to the present, cases from Grønfjorden, Svalbard
Survey along the riverbed at Sandefjord Point on the southwest side of Grønfjorden, in search of claim boards and remains of water collecting ...
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Finding Mars on Svalbard: A study of Martian gullies on Earth
Ella Carlsson and Henrik Johansson analyzing the mountain underneath the surface using a WADI device. Photo: Expedition Svalbard 2007. Background Water is a prerequisite for life as we ...
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Joint Russian and Swedish investigations into zoonotic pathogens on the Commander Islands
Sea Otters were abundant in the coastal waters of Bering Island. Photo: Ingvar Eliasson. During the month of July 2007 a joint Russian and Swedish research ...
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Use of soapstone from the first settlement of Greenland until the present day
A view of the small fjord Urjarassuit pavat with the base camp for the archaeologists. Photo: Lars Larsson Background Recent research in archaeology has ...
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Svalbard’s Caledonian Terranes revisited, Nordaustlandet 2007
... Murchisonfjorden supergroup (foreground) unconformably overlie volcanics of the Svartrabbane group (below snowfield). At least the latter are involved in the migmatisation. Photo: Henning Lorenz. Between 1990 and 1998 international ...
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Where the northernmost world ends – fieldwork on Johannes V. Jensen Land, northern Greenland, to resolve its glacial and palaeoenvironmental history – part 2
... Otter in for landing. Photo: Per Möller. Background In recent years the importance of the Arctic region for global climate change has often been stressed both in the scientific community and the media. It has been suggested that a cold arctic ...
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KINNVIKA – A multidisciplinary and multinational platform for arctic warming and impact research during the fourth International Polar Year
Ulf Jonsell at the AWS on Vestfonna. Photo: Veijo Pohjola. Background The International Council for Science (ICSU) has declared ...
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The Arctic Gakkel Vents (AGAVE) Expedition July 1 – August 10, 2007
... objective was to develop new technologies for deep-sea research in ice-covered oceans. The expedition was an International Polar Year (IPY) collaboration between scientists from the USA, Sweden, Germany and Japan. The Gakkel Ridge in the ...
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Could the Bredefjord area be the key to understanding the palaeoclimatic and glacial changes in southern Greenland?
... on reconnaissance in Bredefjorden in one of the large Zodiacs. Photo: Dan Zwartz Background and aim A number of natural processes interact to cause sea level changes. The sea level position is at every point of time and space ...
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Properties of aerosol particles in polar regions and trends in background CO2 levels: Long-term monitoring and aircraft measurements
Data points depict the vertical distribution of particle number density for the ASTARflight conducted 14 April 2007 ...
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Effects of global warming on the reproductive biology of birds in Swedish sub-arctic areas
Background Birds are excellent indicators of environmental change, such as biologically important effects of climate change, and consequently studies of birds ...
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Lomonosov Ridge off Greenland (LOMROG) 2007: Chemical and physical oceanography
The CTD/rosette sampler on its way back from the water. Photo: Sofia Rickberg. The oceanographic component of LOMROG focuses on constraining and understanding the pathways ...
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Lomonosov Ridge off Greenland (LOMROG) 2007: Accumulation of mercury in the Arctic Ocean
Continuous measurements of total gaseous mercury in air (black line) and dissolved gaseous mercury in surface water (line in colours) during the expeditions Beringia 2005 and LOMROG 2007. Schlitzer, R., Ocean Data View, 2004. ...
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Lomonosov Ridge off Greenland (LOMROG) 2007: Coring and highresolution geophysical mapping
... background The Arctic Ocean north of Greenland is virtually unexplored due to predominantly heavy sea ice conditions that have made the area by and large inaccessible. Icebreakers have previously never attempted to reach the southern tip ...