Margareta Hansson firn coring at drillsite CM. The nunatak Basen, 10 km away, is seen in the background. Photo: Kim Holmén Background Ice cores have ...
The 2002/03 season of the long-term programme EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) was a great success. The EPICA Dome C drilling reached a depth of 3 200 m and resulted in the longest ice core record ever ...
Basecamp at Kibergdalen. Photo: Jim Hedfors Aim of the project Ever since the research station Wasa was built in Dronning Maud Land ...
... The AMANDA telescope for high-energy cosmic neutrinos was constructed between 1995 and 2000 deep in the ice sheet at the Amundsen-Scott base at the South Pole, Antarctica. The scientific goals are, among others, to use the neutrino ...
Antenna setup with a view of the generator house and the garage at the Wasa station. Photo: Sven Lidström Scientific Background Many people are unaware that the ...
... high Allardyce range in the background. Photo: Gunhild Rosqvist The scientific aims of the expedition were to investigate environmental changes at South Georgia since the Last Glacial Maximum (around 20,000 years ago) and to place these ...
A moraine ridge on the southern Store Koldewey lowland, probably dating from the end of the last glaciation. Photo: Lena Håkansson Introduction and scientific background For a long time the ...
... showing the inferred opening of the Amerasian Basin in the Mesozoic (white arrows) and the Eurasian Basin and North Atlantic in the Tertiary (black arrows). Based on Jackson and Gunnarsson (1990), bathymetric data from Jakobsson et al. ...
... Miller After seven field seasons on the Greenland ice sheet the goal was fulfilled. On 17 July 2003 the deep drilling at NorthGRIP reached the bedrock at a depth of 3 085 m. NorthGRIP is the latest deep ice core-drilling programme on the ...
The Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago bordering the northern Kara Sea. Introduction Our collaborative Swedish-American-Russian project seeks to clarify the long-debated northern extent of the Kara Sea Ice Sheet during ...
Gorely volcano, south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Photo: Anders Karlqvist Kamchatka Polar research in Kamchatka may seem remote. Petropavlovsk is at the same latitude ...
Our international NW Spitsbergen team. From left to right – Igor Kamenev, Claude Lepvrier, Alexander Tebenkov, Victoria Pease, ...
... In the season 2000/01 Australia, Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa and Sweden, co-ordinated by Jan Erling Haugland, made an evaluation of flights between Cape Town and Dronning Maud Land (DML), as well as ...
Mart Nyman at Dome C. Photo: Mart Nyman The 2001/02 season of the long-term programme EPICA, European Project for Ice Coring in ...
The observed neutrinos from AMANDA-II from data collected in 2000. The sky view is given in equatorial coordinates: declination vs. right ascension. Potential neutrino ...
Introduction The terrestrial vegetation of Dronning Maud Land is sparse and consists of lichens, mosses and algae. The growth rates of Antarctic lichens at ...
... genus Macrobiotus collected on Basen. Photo: K. Ingemar Jönsson Introduction Tardigrades are small (ca. 0.2–1.0 mm) aquatic invertebrates found in a variety of ecosystems and microhabitats. Despite their dependence on liquid water for an ...
... of Antarctica is considered to be particularly sensitive to environmental hazards because of the extremes in climate and because of the limited choice of feed available. One important topic that has attracted growing concern during the ...
The north side of the Wasa station building. Photo: Warren Papworth Introduction In 2001 the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat extended an invitation ...
Specimens of the genus Plectus are the most common nematodes on the nunatak Basen in Dronning Maud Land. The SEM-picture shows the anterior end of a female. Photo: Sven Boström ...
