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Aboa station. The generator building (left) and the main building (right). The station area is partly snow-covered even during the ...

Aim of the project In continental Antarctica macroscopic life is restricted to a few categories of organisms. The most numerous are lichens, numbering up to perhaps around 100 identified species, followed by ...

The old fishing-boat Puttut served as base camp and transportation for one week. Photo: Niklas Sparrenbom Background A number of natural ...

Tectonic elements of the Eurasian Arctic in the late Mesozoic. The origin of the Arctic Basin remains one of the major mysteries of earth’s tectonic history. This vast ...

... foreland north of the Gusinaya River a 150 m high bedrock hill shows a distinct “stoss-and-lee” morphology, indicating an ice movement from the inland (right) towards the sea. Photo: Christian Hjort Scientific background Since 1996 ...

Glaciotectonically disturbed sediments of marine unit 2, below till-2 at site 29. Ice movement from left-to-right. Photo: Ólafur Ingólfsson Introduction The extent, volume and timing of past ...

Northern part of the Eurasian continent indicating the dispersal patterns of the Scandinavian, Barents Sea and Kara Sea ice sheets. Lines shows the terminal positions ...

Project aims The earth is made of seven large (108 km2), six intermediate (106–107 km2), and more than 20 smaller (105–106 km2) rigid plates known as microplates. These plates move across the ...

Photo: Katarina Abrahamsson Objective The main objective was to investigate the distribution and production of volatile halogenated ...

Map showing the sections sampled during Arctic Ocean 2002, the tracks of major water flow between the North Atlantic and Arctic and 129I transport paths (arrows) from Sellafield (S) and La Hague (L). ...

The general flow pattern of waters in the Arctic Ocean and the Nordic Seas. The dashed arrows illustrate surface waters, while the solid ...

... the plankton community, viruses and bacteria play a major role in pelagic food chains and in biogeochemical cycles. Aquatic microbiology is a rapidly developing field, thanks to new methods for species identification, enumeration and ...

Aim It may be difficult to believe that compounds you can hold as a powder in the palm of your hand can be transported via the air to remote areas. Nevertheless ...

The sections taken on the Arctic Ocean 2002 expedition. The positions of stations shown in Figures 2 to 5 are indicated. East Greenland Current (EGC), West Spitsbergen Current (WSC), Irminger ...

... (mycosporine-like amino acids, MAAs) in phytoplankton along depth gradients (i.e. light gradients), (II) the relation between MAAs and typical light shielding pigments such as beta-carotene and diatoxanthin and (III) the accuracy of ...

... carried out within the Russian Antarctic programme. However, it was not until the Antarctic summer season 1997/98 that air transportation to Dronning Maud Land became available to other national operators. In that season, the commercial ...

The AMANDA detector for high energy cosmic neutrinos has been built (1995 – 2000) deep in the glacier at the Amundsen-Scott base at the South Pole, Antarctica. The scientific goals are among others to use the neutrino ...

... Europe or the Valdaian of Russia. Today, the imprint left by these different ice sheets tells a story about dramatic climate changes and facilitates a better understanding of the mechanisms and forces driving the present-day climate ...

The economy of Greenland is to a large extent dependent upon income from fisheries. About 93% of the national income is based on export of fish products, and of this approximately 68% is coming from export of shrimps. To ...

The earth radiation deficit at high latitudes necessitates a poleward transport of heat in the atmosphere and ocean, in order to keep up ...