The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat will be supporting several geologically oriented Arctic research expeditions during the 2010 season. The Russian Taymyr Peninsula is a research area of great interest, and the project will focus on its geophysics, glaciation history, and quaternary geology. Glaciation history studies will also be conducted in southwest Greenland.
The SWEDARCTIC 2010 research programme will include the following projects:
Taymyr Peninsula:
Victoria Pease, Department of Geology and Geochemistry, Stockholm University
Per Möller, Department of Geology, Lund University
Love Dalén, Molecular Systematics Laboratory, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Greenland:
Kurt H. Kjær, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen and Nicolaj Krog Larsen, GeoBiosphere Science Centre, Quaternary Sciences, Lund University
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, 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.
The SWEDARP 2010/11 research programme will include the following Swedish projects:
The South Pole:
Per Olof Hulth, Fysikum, Stockholm University
The Amundsen Sea:
Oden:
Katarina Abrahamsson, Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg
Göran Björk, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg
Tero Härkönen, The Department of Contaminant Research, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Melissa Chierici, Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg
Nathaniel B. Palmer:
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
Stefan Bertilsson, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University
Per-Olav Moksnes, Department of Marine Ecology, University of Gothenburg
Kuria Ndungu, Department of Applied Environmental Science (ITM), Stockholm University
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Last Updated: 2010-02-25
Read more about the research projects that will be conducted within SWEDARCTIC 2010 and during the Oden Southern Ocean 2010/11 expedition.