Previous Expeditions

SWEDARP 2009/10

Dronning Maud Land was the site of a major logistical initiative during the season. The icebreaker Oden did also worked in the Antarctic during the winter. As part of the Swedish-American Oden Southern Ocean cooperative arrangement, the icebreaker started out doing icebreaking work to enable travel by boat to and from the American McMurdo station, and then served as a research platform.

The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat was also supporting a number of other research projects during the 2009/10 Antarctic season.

SWEDARCTIC 2009

Using the 50-year-old research station at Kinnvika, Svalbard, as a base, the Kinnvika project completed a spring season and a concluding summer season during the 2009 Arctic season.

The massive undersea Lomonosov Ridge, which divides the Arctic Ocean in two, was a research area of major interest during the LOMROG II expedition. The icebreaker Oden served as a research platform and, on 22 August, 60 proud participants set foot on the North Pole, marking the icebreaker's sixth visit there. The expedition, which took place between 31 July and 10 September, was a cooperative venture between the Danish Continental Shelf Project and the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat.

The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat provided logistical support for glaciological studies of the Nordenskiöldbreen and Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard. Support was also provided to the Arctic fox survival project, in which researchers followed up on Arctic fox kits whose ears had been tagged during an earlier preservation project. The RINK project completed its next-to-last season during the year.

SWEDARP 2008/09

At the beginning of March 2009 the expedition sailing yacht Seal left Ushuaia in Argentina and set course towards South Georgia. The LASHIPA 6 expedition to the Prince Olav Harbour whaling station was part of a historical-archaeological research project. The expedition sought out new knowledge about one of the most controversial chapters in the history of the polar areas – the Antarctic whaling industry of the 20th century.

The Oden Southern Ocean 2008/09 expedition began in November 2008. A total of six Swedish and three U.S. marine research projects have been conducted using the icebreaker Oden as a research platform. Oden Southern Ocean is a cooperative effort of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA.

SWEDARCTIC 2008

During the second summer of the International Polar Year 2007–2008, the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat has been conducting a significant number of expeditions in the Arctic. The activities includes an international and interdisciplinary expedition on the icebreaker Oden, ASCOS, to the Arctic Ocean and research on the field station Kinnvika at Svalbard. Research activities in northern Sweden were organised and emphasised during the expedition Arctic Sweden. An international research expedition, ISSS-08, including participants from Russia, Sweden, USA and other nations took place in August and September 2008. ISSS-08 travelled the length of the Siberian coast to the East Siberian Sea.

The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat has also been providing equipment on loan to a number of other projects.

SWEDARP 2007/08

The Swedish Antarctic Research Programme during the summer season of 2007/08 included diverse activities in several places on and around the continent, consistenly within international cooperations: JASE, a Japanese-Swedish traverse crossed Dronning Maud Land, the expedition Oden Southern Ocean where Swedish and US scientists worked in marine projects on the icebreaker Oden, atmospheric physics within the MARA project at the Swedish station Wasa and particle physics within the international project IceCube deep down in the ice at the South Pole.

SWEDARCTIC 2007

The Swedish polar activities during the arctic summer season 2007 and the first summer of IPY were diverse and numerous. Two research expeditions, AGAVE (Arctic Gakkel Vents, carrying scientist from Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution) in July and LOMROG (Lomonosov Ridge off Greenland) in August used the icebreaker Oden as a research platform, and also did pre-expeditions to test the equipment. LOMROG was a joint Danish/Swedish expedition, with the Danish participation focussing on the Danish Continental Shelf Project.

Another major Swedish project was the reinstallment of the research station Kinnvika at Nordaustlandet in Svalbard. Work at the station had a scientific focus on glaciology, geology, biology, ecology and atmospheric chemistry, but social sciences and humanities were also represented. The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat also supported several terrestrial science projects in geology, archeology and industrial history in Greenland and Svalbard through the research programme SWEDARCTIC 2007. Reports and photos was published on this link, mainly in Swedish.

SWEDARP 2006/07

In the Antarctic summer season 2006/07, the Swedish research programme included a variety of projects in the Antarctic; Marine science on icebreaker Oden from Argentina to McMurdo, aerosol measuring by atmospheric radar at Wasa and airborne aerosol surveys from Neumayer, Dronnning Maud Land. The international particle physics project IceCube continued at the South Pole with Swedish scientists and drillers. One Swedish citizen is part of the US-employed overwintering team 2006/07.

SWEDARCTIC 2006

In the summer of 2006 the Swedish Polar Resarch Secretariat supported the following research projects in the Arctic:

SWEDARP 2005/06

The level of Swedish activity in Antarctica was relatively low during the 2005/06 summer season. No research activities were ongoing at the Swedish Wasa and Svea stations, although Sweden did take part in the glaciological EPICA Project at Kohnen Base, and in the AMANDA/IceCube particle physics project at the South Pole. Swedish geologists also worked on Isla de los Estados off Argentina.

Beringia 2005

Beringia 2005 became a big, complicated scientific expedition that brought us to places rarely visited or known. The main focus of the expedition was on ecological issues in the Arctic, the area around the Bering Strait, Kamchatka, Chukotka and Alaska, in particular. Areas that are in most importance from the biogeographical point of view. Chukotka and Alaska land, was earlier linked together, and that has influenced species ability to spread over the Bering area.

The scientific projects included in Beringia 2005 can be divided in three themes, geological and ecological history, ecology and evolution, and changes in the climate and ecosystem. Most of the research carried out during the tundra expeditions of Swedish-Russian Tundra Ecology Expedition 1994, along the Russian Arctic coast, and the Tundra Northwest 1999, along the Eurasian north coast and in Arctic Canada, has now been followed up and completed by Beringia 2005.

SWEDARP 2004/05

There where several Swedish research projects performed the Antarctic summer of 2004/05:

ACEX – Arctic Coring Expedition

As part of the IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program), ACEX is a project with the objective of extracting drill cores from the bottom of the ocean at the Lomonosov Ridge. The icebreaker Oden participated in the demanding but successful operation.

SWEDARCTIC 2004

The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat supported the following activities during the summer of 2004:

SWEDARP 2003/04

Projects were carried out at the Swedish research stations Wasa and Svea in Dronning Maud Land under the auspices of the SWEDARP 2003/04 research programme. The projects focused on glaciology, atmospheric physics, ecology and meteorology. The research group also included a recipient of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat's teachers programme. Technical/logistical work was done in addition to the research activities. Swedish researchers continued building the world's biggest neutrino telescope (AMANDA/IceCube) at the South Pole. A marine botanist worked on King George Island, while a drilling engineer took part in the international EPICA Project at Germany's Kohnen Station.

SWEDARCTIC 2003

Swedish bedrock geologists participated in a Russian expedition to Novaya Zemlya in July–August. Swedish quaternary geologists worked in the East Greenland coast in July–August. The Secretariat also supported an international summer school of industrial archaeology at Spitsbergen and Swedish participation in a bedrock geology expedition in Svalbard. In July representatives from the Secretariat made a planning trip to Alaska at the prospect of the Beringia expedition in 2005.

SWEDARP 2002/03

The Antarctic summer season included research projects in glaciology, meteorology and medicine. Several Swedish atmospheric projects started during the season. Sweden participated in the EPICA project with one technician at the German Kohnen Base. The AMANDA project continued its work at the South Pole. A Dutch monitoring project (started in 1994) exchanged its weather stations at Wasa and Svea and got snow samples. The Wasa station was improved in order to receive more scientist, flying in with light equipment, during the upcoming seasons.

SWEDARCTIC 2002

Several research expeditions to the Arctic were conducted in parallel during the summer of 2002. The research addressed areas such as glaciation history, sea level changes and quaternary geology. The expeditions were conducted in Arkhangelsk/Triple Junction, and in Greenland, the Taymyr Peninsula and Severnaja Zemlja.

Arctic Ocean 2002

An Arctic marine expedition with the icebreaker Oden to the Greenland Sea with research involving marine chemistry and oceanography. The expedition took place early in the season (April–June), which gave the scientists unique opportunities to study processes in these regions in winter conditions.

SWEDARP 2001/02

The winter 2001/02 expedition to Antarctica consisted of two parts. One research group studied the spread of bacteria and viruses among animals on the Antarctic Peninsula. Another group studied mosses and micro-organisms near the Swedish Wasa and Svea stations.

Arctic Ocean 2001

In the summer of 2001 the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat carried out an icebreaker expedition to the High Arctic. The expedition lasted for two months and its main focus was research into the atmosphere and biogeochemistry. Approximately 50 researchers participated in Arctic Ocean 2001.

SWEDARCTIC 2000

A cultural expedition to Svalbard was conducted in the summer of 2000. Swedish researchers also worked in Siberia as part of a geological research programme, and on deep drilling on Greenland's inland ice.

SWEDARP 1999/2000

The expedition focused mainly on the glaciological research programmes related to climate change. Research was also conducted in the areas of geodesy, meteorology and the environment. The AMANDA project also continued at the South Pole with the construction of the world's biggest neutrino telescope, which is to be used to detect cosmic particles.

SWEDARCTIC 1999

Three different research programs, all within international collaboration and focus on climate and environmental change.

Tundra Northwest 1999

TNW 99 was a ship based research expedition to the Canadian arctic archipelago and Alaska, focusing on the tundra's ecology. The scientific programme comprised both terrestrial and aquatic organisms. The field work involved extensive programmes for collecting data and samples.

SWEDARP 1998/99

The AMANDA project continued at Amundsen-Scott Base at the South Pole with the construction of the world's biggest neutrino telescope, which is to be used to detect cosmic particles.

SWEDARCTIC 1998

A cultural reconnaissance expedition was made to Svalbard in the summer of 1998, along with a geographical expedition to northwest Siberia that included three different research programmes, all of them international cooperative ventures.

SWEDARP 1997/98

SWEDARP 1997/98 focused on glaciology and geology, marine research into primary production, the carbon cycle and astrophysics at the South Pole.

SWEDARCTIC 1997

The 1997 Arctic season focused on geology and cultural research. A cultural research field trip was conducted that included visits to several of the many locations in Svalbard that are associated with the history of the geographical and scientific discovery of the island group.

Two geological programmes were also carried out in Svalbard.

SWEDARP 1996/97

During SWEDARP 1996/97, twenty Swedes travelled to different parts of Antarctica. Within the framework of the Nordic cooperation, which began 1991/92, it was Norway who had primary responsibility for transportation.

Arctic Ocean 1996

On 12 July 1996, the Polar expedition Arctic Ocean 1996 departed. This was a major Swedish Polar research expedition, using the icebreaker Oden, studying climatic and environmental developments in the innermost parts of the Arctic. The aim of the expedition was to explore the unknown eastern parts of the Polar Basin between the North Pole and the Laptev Sea. After a successful expedition the Oden returned to Göteborg on 28 September.

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