The Tundra Northwest 1999 expedition to the Canadian Arctic included a limnological theme (D): ”Freshwater ecosystems in the high Arctic”. Although most projects under Theme D were of a basic nature, they were in ...
... are generally considered to be pristine and scarcely influenced by human activity. Thus it might be surprising that contamination of the Arctic environment should be of major concern. Nevertheless the Arctic has become contaminated by ...
Ever since the first nuclear facility was taken in to use in Chicago, USA in 1942, the environment has been contaminated by anthropogenic radionuclides. The Arctic environment was first exposed to these nuclides through the atmosphere and ...
Biodiversity is intrinsically important for ecosystem structure and function. While ecologists are uncovering the relationships between species and their environments, and how these relationships are important for maintaining ecosystems in ...
In order to understand past climatic change in the Canadian Arctic, a detailed climate record is necessary. However, scientific knowledge of Arctic climate ...
The polar regions are key areas for climate changes and pollution. Many areas can be defined as cold deserts. There is less biodiversity here and food-chains are ...
The fact that the Arctic basin and shelves have a similar aquatic fauna which is subject to varying levels of pollution stress and to ...
... during the Swedish Tundra Northwest 1999 programme. Projects and accomplishments 1. Marine mammal and bird observation On board participants: J. Reist, B. Dunn, and B. Sjare, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Martin Green, Department of ...
Even though the theme and purpose of Tundra Northwest 1999 was ecological research, no participant could escape the fact that the expedition sailed through waters full of historical perspectives. The seaways between the Canadian northern ...
The second and concluding leg of the Tundra Northwest 1999 expedition covered an immense territory in both spatial and temporal terms. The northern parts of the central and western Nearctic are generally perceived to be an almost ...
Student tourists cruising icebergs on Antarctica Peninsula. Photo: Hans Gelter The aim of this study was mainly to investigate how the polar tourist’s experience is formed by the interaction with the environment and the polar guide. It’s ...
Four years of bottom temperature record at mooring site S1 The Antarctic shelf regions are currently experiencing large changes coincident with ...
Last touches to the antenna array at Maitri Foto: Sheila Kirkwood MARA, the Moveable Atmospheric Radar for Antarctica, is used to study winds, turbulence and ...
Post-graduate student Rickard Pettersson and doctoral candidate Dorothée Vallot at Camp Lomonosovfonna. This is where we stayed ...
... Barentsburg and Pyramiden, has been an integral part of the tourism offer on Svalbard for many years. Information concerning tourism development in the Arctic is vital in order to assess any negative impacts of the increased ...
The research team assembled on the sailing boat S/Y Aleiga, base of the Svalbard fieldwork. From left: Björn Gunnarson, Hans Linderholm, Anne Hormes, Toby Koffman, Will ...
Map showing the positions of the physical oceanography stations (CTD stations) during leg 2. The section from which data is shown in figure 3 is marked with a square. The Arctic ...
... ponds near Bennett Island. Photo: Michael Tjernström Clouds remain a large uncertainty in our understanding of the climate system over the Arctic Ocean, especially for their impact on surface energy fluxes. Here, a unique environment creates ...
Approaching Spitsbergen from west round midnight. Photo: Sam Fredriksson A fulmar inspecting our work at the research vessel G.O. Sars. Photo: Sam Fredriksson Location Map. A) Bathymetry of the region showing the main ...
... The Cambro-Ordovician Apoon volcanics (left, dark) are unconformably overlain by Mississippian to Permian carbonates (right, light grey) and siliciclastics (right, brown), all of which is overthrust by the Endicott Mountain Allochthon ...
