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A typical clearwater, shallow Arctic lake suffering from very high UV radiation. Photo: L-A. Hansson. The Beringia region supports a ...

... The physical history of the Arctic region is important from a geological perspective, but also for understanding climate patterns, the evolution of Arctic life forms, current plant and animal distributions and the flow of nutrients and ...

Left: Wind speed and temperatures at Wasa as measured in between visits. Right: Wind speed and temperatures at Svea as measured in between visits. Aim ...

Location of Dronning Maud Land, Heimefrontfjella, Scharffenbergbotnen and Svea research station. Aim and background The ...

The monitoring station. The permafrost/temperature sensors are placed on the ground 10 meters from the station. Photo: Sven Lidström During ...

Thermal contraction crack in sandstone at Fossilryggen. Photo: Jan Boelhouwers Background All ice-free areas of continental Antarctica, amounting to less than 5% ...

... programme EPICA, European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, continued during season 2003/04 with deep drilling at Kohnen Station in Dronning Maud Land (EPICA-DML). The driller Kerstin Hörnby represented Sweden in field. The drilling ...

The atmospheric neutrino intensity as a function of energy (preliminary). Aim of the work The AMANDA telescope for high energy ...

Tardigrade (species unidentified) from the nunatak Plogen, Dronning Maud Land. Photo: Ingemar Jönsson Tardigrades are small (approx. 0.2-1.0 mm) aquatic invertebrates ...

Arriving at Wasa station. Photo: Sheila Kirkwood Scientific background The aim of this project is to quantify the effect of ...

... in front of the ”Casa Principal”.Photo: Angela Wulff Aim The overall objective of this study is the estimation of the early, mid- and longterm effects of ultraviolet radiation (UVR; 280-400 nm, further divided into UVBR; 280-320 ...

... because of the support provided by icebreakers Oden (middle) and Sovetskiy Soyuz (distant) while drilling Hole M0004A at 87’52.0’N, 136’111.2’E on 30 August 2004. Photo: Martin Jakobsson Aim of the project The Arctic ...

One of the most inaccessible bits of land anywhere on Earth is Novaya Zemlya. Located along Eurasia’s Arctic margin, this 100 km wide, 1 000 km long fold-belt reaches from the Polar Urals of ...

The multinational NorthGRIP research programme has partly been funded by participating institutions from Germany, Japan, Sweden, ...

Sampling for cosmogenic exposure dating. Photo: Lena Håkansson During the last decades considerable efforts have been put into onshore investigations of the ...

Crossing the river at Council, a Small Village east of Nome where the road ends. Photo: Polarforskningssekretariatet The two previous tundra ...

The aim of the project The aim of the field campaign in summer 2004 was to initialize documentation and research into the mining history of Svalbard in an international comparative perspective. The most important ...

Migmatites from Kollerfjorden. The lighter area is granitic melt which is injected into the darker rock and derived from ...

Ice cores from Polar Regions provide information on past climate and the past composition of the atmosphere. The longest ice care record in Antarctica now extends 740 ...

AWS 5 at Camp Maudheimvidda, just after installation in 1998. The electronics and battery boxes as well as the mast foot are ...