Current Expeditions

SWEDARCTIC 2012

The Swedish Arctic research programme SWEDARCTIC 2012 includes the following projects:

Taymyr 2012

  • Taymyr revisited – a quest for former Eurasian Ice Sheet margins and mega-fauna extenction during the last glacial cycles
    Per Möller, Lund University
  • Tectonic evolution of the Amerasia Basin and CALE
    Victoria Pease, Stockholm University

LOMROG III

  • PAWS: Palaeoceanography of the Arctic – Water masses, Sea ice, and sediments
    Richard Gyllencreutz, Stockholm University
  • Marine diazotrophic diversity in the Polar Oceans and its contribution to global nitrogen cycling
    Pauline Snoeijs, Stockholm University
  • The role of zooplankton in Arctic food webs
    Kajsa Tönnesson, University of Gothenburg

NOA-Svalbard

  • Neoproterozoic orogeny in southern and central Svalbard
    Henning Lorenz, Uppsala University
Editor: Magnus Tannerfeldt Last updated: 2012-05-14
Methane bubble in sea ice. Photo: Martin Wik
Yearbook 2011

The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat's yearbook contains information about the Secretariat's activities, annual accounts and cruise reports from the research projects.

Penguin
Current expeditions

Read more about our current expeditions.

Photo: Adam Jeppesen
Roadmap for Swedish Polar Research

The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and Swedish Research Council have established a shared roadmap for support to research projects in polar regions outside Sweden.