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How autonomous and robotic technologies help us understand the climate system

25 Sep 2018 How autonomous and robotic technologies help us understand the climate system

Identifying cloud seeds at the North Pole

25 Sep 2018 Identifying cloud seeds at the North Pole

13 Sep 2018 Evolving into a village

What would the Arctic tundra look like without grazing?

30 Aug 2018 What would the Arctic tundra look like without grazing?

In the Arctic, almost all ice-free land is grazed by wild or domesticated reindeer. Reindeer grazing affects the Arctic landscape by controlling what type of plants and what plant species that are there. For example, they can hold back the spread of trees and tall shrubs and in general graze down tall vegetation. They also affect nutrient cycling, ecosystem processes and how the vegetation and ecosystem responses to climate change. To better understand what future vegetation patterns and biodiversity might look like in the Arctic, it is therefore important to study the interaction between plants and herbivores.

A surprising amount of life

28 Aug 2018 A surprising amount of life

24 Aug 2018 Weekly letter and photos from the Arctic Ocean

Bubbles and particles

22 Aug 2018 Bubbles and particles

13 Aug 2018 The North Pole

09 Aug 2018 Weekly Travelogue from the icebreaker Oden

08 Aug 2018 Troubleshooting in the dark

Andrew Margolin is a marine carbon biogeochemist at Virginia Insitute of Marine Science and has blogged about the first week of Arctic Ocean 2018.

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