Left: 50 let Pobedy under way alongside Oden to break the ice.Right: 50 let Pobedy reversing to “pick up” Oden. These operations occurred often during seismic data acquisition due to the severe ice conditions in the area of ...
Drilling ice cores with Kovacs drill at 85°N. Photo: Hans Ramløv The Arctic Ocean plays a critical part in global oceanic circulation, in that it modulates ...
Bohemanneset – the site of the Dutch mining settlement of Rijpsburg, containing remains of mines, transportation systems and buildings. The site was mapped with total station in LASHIPA 3, August 2006. Photo: Dag Avango. ...
Ilyushin 76 on Novolazarevskaya airbase. Photo: Torbjörn Karlin The deep ice core drilling project at the German Kohnen Station in Dronning Maud Land (DML) is part of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica ...
The aim of the telescopes The feasibility of using transparent ice at large depth in Antarctica for neutrino telescopes was shown by the AMANDA collaboration in the 1990’s. The scientific ...
The storm-ridden beach, the windswept Nothofagus-forest and the rugged mountains at the camp by Bahía Colnett. Photo: Karl Ljung. Introduction The expedition in November–December 2005 to Isla de los ...
... Photo: Erick Asenjo. Backgound Since the beginning of the 1990’s the SCAR working group on Geodesy and Geoinformatics has devoted much effort to establishing and measuring a GPS geodetic network over Antarctica with connection to other ...
... and Sassenfjorden. Photo: Jonas Hagström. Background For a long period (1923–1959) the Department of Palaeozoology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History was led by professor Erik Stensiö (1891–1984), at the time a world leading expert ...
A) Overview map; B) map of Northeast Greenland showing sites visited during field seasons 2003–2006, C) Dark areas show Quaternary sediment cover and coloured areas show the 2006 field sites Scientific background Along the presently ice-free ...
Overview map of Greenland. A) Coloured box indicates insert map, B) shows our four principal investigation areas on the northern coast of Johannes V. Jensen Land ...
Schematic constructive plate margin. A) Cross-section view. B) Map view of symmetric spreading. C) Map view of ...
Picture was taken from the Zeppelin station 26 April 2006 just prior to the pollution event. Photo: Ann-Christine Engvall. Project aim The energy budget on Earth ...
Patterned ground in proximity to the field station Svea. Photo: Hanna Ridefelt Background About 5% of the total area of the ...
Eurasian margin in the latest Mesozoic. Over eighty percent of the world’s energy is supplied by fossil fuels and most of the transport sector is ...
... to sample. Photo: Helena Alexanderson Scientific background and aims The Jameson Land peninsula (70-71°N) is situated at the Scoresby Sund fjord, which is the largest drainage route for the eastern part of the Greenland ice sheet ...
Dallmann Laboratory and Jubany base, 62°14’S, 58°40’W, Potter Cove, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Aim The ...
GPS measurement at Wasa station. Photo: Erick Asenjo Introduction The participation of the Division of Geodesy of the Royal Institute of ...
The Swedish antarctic station Wasa. Photo: Uwe Raffalski. Scientific background Everybody knows that the Antarctic meteorological conditions on the ...
Walking towards the new South Pole station from the IceCube area. Photo: Per Olof Hulth. The aim of AMANDA and IceCube The AMANDA telescope for ...
... AWS maintenance in the future. Photo: Uwe Raffalski. Aim of the work 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) ...
