SWEDARCTIC 2008
Arctic Sweden
A large number of Swedish and international research groups are planning to carry out fieldwork in the northern Swedish mountain range during the International Polar Year 2007–2008. All the research activities will be suffused with awareness of the mountain environment, cooperation with the Sami, reindeer herding and the affected local communities. The stations at Abisko and Tarfala constitute important nodes in circumpolar studies of the sub arctic environment. Through coordinated efforts during the International Polar Year the expedition will increase accessibility as well as draw attention to the Swedish mountain regions. Co-financed with the Swedish IPY-committee.
Research leaders: Ninis Rosqvist, Stockholm University, Göran Ericsson, SLU Umeå, Terry Callaghan, Abisko, Magnus Mörth, Stockholm University, and others.
ASCOS - Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study
ASCOS is a multidisciplinary, international atmospheric experiment stationed onboard Oden in the central Arctic Basin. The fundamental aim is to improve modelling of the Arctic climate and thereby reduce unreliability in calculated scenarios for climate change in the Arctic. Instruments located both on the ice and on the icebreaker record detailed observations of a vertical column, from some hundred metres depth, through the ice and sea surface, up to an altitude of several kilometres in the atmosphere.
Research leaders: Michael Tjernström and Caroline Leck, Stockholm University.
Kinnvika
Within the programme Change and Variability of the Arctic System - Nordaustlandet, some 50 researchers from ten nations will be gathered under 20 research projects. They will investigate glaciers and sediment to map climatic and environmental history, chart flora and fauna, as well as search for traces of human activities on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, using the historical Kinnvika station as a base. The project was initiated in 2007. During 2008 work will be carried out in two stages, one in the late winter, early spring, and the other in the summer.
Research leader: Veijo Pohjola, Uppsala University.
ISSS-08 - International Siberian Shelf Study 2008
An international research expedition including participants from Russia, Sweden, USA and other nations will travel the length of the Siberian coast to the East Siberian Sea in August and September 2008. This 4000-km long area is largely unexplored, despite being one of the largest epicontinental seas in the world. The objective is to improve our understanding of the enormous flows of carbon, material, and water that pass through this system on their way from the Siberian tundra to the interior of the Arctic Ocean, particularly in terms of the effects of a changing climate.
Swedish research leaders: Leif Anderson, Göteborg University, Örjan Gustafsson, Stockholm University, Per Andersson, The Swedish Museum of Natural History and Johan Ingri, Luleå University of Technology.
Other projects within SWEDARCTIC 2008
During the second summer of the International Polar Year 2007–2008, the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat will also be supporting a number of other projects:
- Svalbard:
- – LASHIPA 5 – Large Scale Historical Industrial exploitation of Polar Areas
- – An evaluation of models for Martian gully formation using remote sensing and in situ measurements of Svalbard analogues
- – Evolution and palaeobiogeography of Cenozoic mammals in northern Europe
- – Lower Palaeozoic faunas from North-Eastern Spitsbergen
- Greenland:
- – RINK (Response of the Inland ice-sheet to natural climate changes) - glaciological-historical studies in southwest Greenland
- Ellesmere Island:
- – Arctic tectonic evolution: Ellesmere Island
Copyright © 2008 Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, office@polar.se.
XHTML 1.0, CSS.