... We were fortunate to have a helicopter aboard Oden, which allowed the sampling of seals nearly every day. Icebreaking mission The vessels cooperated on both navigation and research as they sailed towards the American McMurdo Research ...
... -30 °C. During this time, the Amundsen–Scott Station will be manned by some 150 people, up to 48 of whom were working on the IceCube project simultaneously. At least ten countries are involved in the project, including Sweden through the ...
... in the European sector of the Arctic, and Nordaustlandet is the northernmost large terrain in Svalbard, changes taking effect here will most likely propagate southwards, both as physical processes and as economic and political consequences ...
... studies in the remote and inaccessible Antarctic region. Over the winter, Oden started out doing icebreaking work to enable travel by boat to and from the American station. Afterwards, on the voyage back to South America, the ...
... that are pathogenic in humans. Antarctica is one of the few areas in the world with a limited human presence, making it a particularly suitable environment for studies of the role of birds as carriers and potential vectors of antibiotics ...
... helicopter transports created links to the station’s satellite stations and other mountain areas, thus making the Torneträsk area a unified and consolidated area for research purposes. The field activities during the summer of ...
... current climate changes are affecting the Arctic and its interaction with the global climate system is vital to making projections about the future. Clouds play a key role in the Arctic climate by regulating surface energy fluxes that ...
... in the European sector of the Arctic, and Nordaustlandet is the northernmost large terrain in Svalbard, changes taking effect here will most likely propagate southwards, both as physical processes and as economic and political consequences ...
... far away. Our understanding of these remote and inaccessible regions is far from complete, and data are often lacking regarding how a warmer climate is affecting the transport of both organic and inorganic materials from northern ...
... Tönnesson Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia Continental Shelf Project Stockholm ...
... of greenhouse gases”, was Örjan Gustafsson, while the second leg, with the theme “From warming seawater and shrinking sea ice to the venting of greenhouse gases”, was led by Martin Jakobsson. Both research leaders work at Stockholm ...
... and dynamics. There are plenty of potential study sites in the mountain ranges, whose peaks, nunataks, are sticking up through the ice sheet 200–300 km from the coast. MAGIC-DML is an international research collaboration, with ...
... researchers can study the extent to which research stations promote political legitimacy for countries seeking influence in matters pertaining to the Arctic. Principal investigator Eric Paglia Division of History of Science, ...
... will allow high-resolution, detailed age model reconstructions for stratigraphic cross correlation still lacking in this area. PREPARED aim is to investigate and define the present and past oceanographic patterns around the two ...
... evidence of natural resource exploitation in the polar areas. The LASHIPA 6 expedition was an international undertaking, involving researchers and doctoral candidates from Sweden, the Netherlands and Norway. The whaling industry Prince Olav ...
... radiation comes from (near black holes?) and what the dark matter in the universe consists of. The researchers are making use of neutrinos, which are uncharged elementary particles of extremely low mass. Neutrinos are formed when particles ...
... of 2007/08, when 18 new strings with light detectors was deployed in the ice. Before the season there were 22 working strings collecting data with the earlier neutrino telescope AMANDA. The finished telescope consists of 80 strings and ...
... increase understanding of zoonoses, i.e., diseases that are communicable from animals to humans, scientists were looking for salmonella, borrelia, and campylobacter etc. Are there genetic differences in fish, birds, and small mammals in the ...
... UVR on the succession of micro- and macroalgae will be determined in the rocky intertidal in Potter Cove on King George Island, Antarctica. Principal investigator Angela Wulff University of Gothenburg
... UVR on the succession of micro- and macroalgae will be determined in the rocky intertidal in Potter Cove on King George Island, Antarctica. Principal investigator Angela Wulff University of Gothenburg
