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Bedrock geology 2007

This time the Swedish group was invited to join the Russian operations, whose many field parties covered large areas of northern Svalbard for regional geological mapping in collaboration ...

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EAGER

The task of the Continental Shelf Project was to acquire the necessary data in order to document an extension of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in accordance with article 76 of ...

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NOA-Svalbard 2011

... Torellian Unconformity was studied for two weeks. The unconformity is a boundary between rock types deformed during late-Neoproterozoic mountain range formation and the younger overlying rock types. This boundary can be traced for hundreds ...

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Oden Southern Ocean 2010/11

The Swedish scientific party on Oden was devoted to studies of oceanography, the biology and chemistry of sea ice and water, the dynamics and evolution of epidemic diseases in seals, and benthic communities. The Swedes on the Palmer team ...

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The Frozen Garden of Eden

... mammals is very sparse and new taxa can be expected. Seymour Island is the only ice-free area on the whole continent that exposes Palaeogene strata, allowing a keyhole view into the Early Cenozoic world of this land mass. It is therefore the ...

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MARA 2010/11

The atmospheric radar was used in the project to measure aerosols. The aim is to increase our understanding of aerosol ...

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IceCube 2010/11

Using hot water drills, two-kilometre-deep holes were bored in the clear ice to house light detectors for capturing the weak light ...

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Oden Southern Ocean 2008/09

It was the third season in a row icebreaker Oden worked in Antarctica. The basis of the cooperative effort was that NSF chartered Oden from the Swedish Maritime Administration and the Swedish Polar Research ...

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Taymyr 2010

... or several smaller earlier ones. We will also find out more about the role played by the landmass(es) in the formation of the Arctic marine basins that exist today. The deep basins in the Arctic are extremely important to the global ...

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RINK 2010

The RINK project investigated how the ice margin reacted to earlier periods of warming, the interrelationship between sea-ice and sea-level changes ...

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LASHIPA 9

LASHIPA 9 was a part of the data collection for the historical-archaeological research project LASHIPA (Large Scale Historical Exploitation of Polar ...

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Kinnvika 2009

... areas will be the area’s first to show signs of change and stress on the cryosphere and of the ecotone. This made climate change and impact research the highest priority for Kinnvika. Large changes Regional modelling of the future of the ...

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LOMROG II

The Swedish icebreaker Oden served as the research platform, while the actual research areas was selected based on the prevailing ice situation, particularly in the area around ...

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Ice dynamics and mass balance

This makes the Arctic ice caps and ice fields to sensitive regions as potential providers of water to increasing sea levels. This project’s aim was to gather data on atmospheric and glacial processes ...

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Oden Southern Ocean 2009/10

When the icebreaker Oden was chartered by the National Science Foundation to break an ice channel to the McMurdo station on the Ross Sea, it opened the door for ...

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DML 2009/10

The work during the expedition was planned in close cooperation with the Finnish Antarctic Research Program, FINNARP. Wasa and Svea The Wasa Research Station was built at Vestfjella ...

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Antibiotic resistance in birds 2009/10

... in recent decades as the main force driving the development of such resistance. The problem is also being exacerbated by the spread of antibiotics-resistant bacteria and resistance genes. Earlier studies have shown that birds function ...

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Cardiovascular and gastrointestinal control mechanisms

these studies will be complemented with traditional lab based in vivo and in vitro studies in combination with immunohistological methods for localization and quantification of different putative substances involved in the ...

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Victoria Land

One of the great unsolved evolutionary events in deep time relates to the origin and early relationships of the major animal phyla that ...

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MARA 2011/12

Moving MARA to different locations makes it possible to study how air is transported and mixed between different heights in the atmosphere under ...

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