Planned Expeditions
SWEDARP 2010/11
The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat will continue to support the Swedish research being done as part of the international IceCube project during the 2010/11 season. Since 1994, the Secretariat has been contributing to the construction and operation of the AMANDA neutrino detector at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, the largest scientific project in Antarctica. The project has entered a new phase with the creation of the cubic kilometre-sized IceCube neutrino detector.
The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and the Swedish Research Council have decided to accept eight Swedish projects for the Oden Southern Ocean 2010/11 expedition. The expedition, which is a cooperative venture with the National Science Foundation (NSF), will be a two-vessel operation this season. At the time of the expedition, the American ship Nathaniel B. Palmer will be in the same area as the Swedish icebreaker Oden, clearing the way for the cooperative activities. The ships will rendezvous in the Amundsen Sea and then sail together along parts of the stretch from McMurdo Station to Punta Arenas. The cooperative venture will give the researchers a unique opportunity to study polynyas – areas of open water between land and sea ice – early in the season when the level of biological activity is at its highest.
Projects
The SWEDARP 2010/11 research programme will include the following Swedish projects:
The South Pole:
- IceCube
Per Olof Hulth, Fysikum, Stockholm University
The Amundsen Sea:
Oden:
- Inter-Related Biogeochemical Cycles of Halocarbons and Mercury in the Southern Ocean
Katarina Abrahamsson, Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg
- Circulation of Warm Oceanic Water and Glacier Melt Water in the Amundsen Sea – Ross Sea shelf Region
Göran Björk, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg
- Dynamics and Evolution of Epidemic Diseases in Antarctic and Arctic Seals
Tero Härkönen, The Department of Contaminant Research, Swedish Museum of Natural History
- Processes Driving the CO2 System in Sea Ice and Water in the Climatically Sensitive Amundsen and Ross Seas
Melissa Chierici, Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg
Nathaniel B. Palmer:
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Iodine Isotopes (129I and 127I) and Species (I- and IO3-) as Ultra Sensitive Tracers of Ocean Circulation
Ala Aldahan, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University
- Patchiness and Significance of Microbial Communities Controlling the Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle
Stefan Bertilsson, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University
- Climate Change and Predatory Invasion of the Antarctic Marine Environment
Per-Olav Moksnes, Department of Marine Ecology, University of Gothenburg
- Iron Speciation and Lead in Amundsen Sea: Study of the Relative Importance of Sea and Glacial Ice Sources
Kuria Ndungu, Department of Applied Environmental Science (ITM), Stockholm University
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Last Updated: 2010-06-15
Documents
Abstracts
Read more about the Swedish research projects in Oden Southern Ocean 2010/11.
Abstracts Oden Southern Ocean 2010/11 (pdf, new window)
Project outline
More documents concerning the two-vessel expedition can be found on the NSF website.
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