Polarimeter measurements by Gabor Horváth. Photo: Susanne Åkesson. The aim Migratory birds are able to use stellar, sunset and geomagnetic information for orientation (Able 1980, Wiltschko and ...
A pika, Ochotona hyberborea. Photo: Love Dalén Scientific background Species with sympatric geographical distributions can be expected to interact with each other in a number of ways, for example through ...
Coring lake sediments at Esso, central Kamchatka. Photo: Elinor Andrén. Background and aims Terrestrial vegetation at high northern latitudes is ...
... Bente Eriksen Beringia – a refugium for arctic and boreal biota? The present-day arctic flora comprises approximately 1 500 species and is of relatively recent origin (Murray, 1995). Throughout most of the Tertiary (65–2 Ma), forests ...
... Arctic Ocean. The sediment cores taken from Healy are shown as stars, CTD cast as black dots and dirty ice sampling stations as red dots. Introduction The third leg of the Beringia 2005 research expedition consisted of a joint crossing ...
Project aims The surface of the Earth is made of rigid plates which have been moving through time and are still in motion today. Both modern and ancient plate motions are ...
Bathymetric map (IBCAO 3.0) showing the LOMROG III ship track (orange) and fieldwork north of Greenland as part of the ...
Overview map showing the main part of the bathymetric data acquired during LOMROG III. Numbers indicate the four profiles covering the flank of the Lomonosov Ridge ...
Seismic line acquired in the Amundsen Basin showing the overall good data quality. Ocean gravity data reflect the bathymetry and density distribution of the oceanic crust and mantle. Low ...
Example of the rock samples gathered. Photo: Thomas Funck Rock samples dredged from the Lomonosov Ridge could yield valuable information on the origin ...
CTD station map showing ship (S), expendable probes (X) and helicopter (H) ice stations recovered during LOMROG III. The ...
Bottom surface of ice core with visible patches of algae. The lower 2 cm of an ice core has been sectioned from the core and mounted bottom upwards in the circular ...
Arctic sediment samples inoculated on nutrient-poor growth substrate. Photo: Nikolaj Grønnegaard Vynne The aim of this project was to collect samples ...
Oden collecting seismic data along a prepared track in the Amundsen Basin. Photo: Thomas Funck The aim of the sea ice temperature project conducted ...
Hydrographic section (purple dots in figure 1). (a) Temperature (deg C) (b) Salinity (c) On-shelf velocity (m/s) (blue indicates flow in towards the glaciers). (d) Deviation from ...
... Fransson. The 2010/11 Oden expedition to the Amundsen Sea in Antarctica was the fifth scientific expedition coordinated jointly by the National Science Foundation, the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, and the Swedish Research Council. ...
The icebreaker Oden is primarily a research platform but it is also a good place to have a coffee and meet new friends. Photo: Björn Eriksson The 2008/09 Oden Southern ...
... lines (2006); green line – LOMROG I ship track (2007); red line – LOMRO G II ship track (2009), dark blue lines – bathymetric profiles acquired by helicopter during spring of 2009; light blue lines – bathymetric profiles acquired by ...
The crew, science team, educator, and journalist participants of SWEDARP Oden Southern Ocean Expedition 2006/07(with Explorers Club Flag No. 84). ...
Collecting water samples from a melt water pool on the ice. Photo: Gunnar Kihlberg. Beringia has unique terrestrial and ...
