The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat's logistics expedition DML 24/25 has now been completed, and the technicians have returned home after working at the Swedish research station Wasa in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.
On January 15, 2025, the Polar Research Secretariat organized a knowledge seminar on environmental forecasts for sustainable development in the Arctic at the World Trade Center in Stockholm. The seminar discussed the importance of and opportunities for observations of the environment in the central Arctic.
Two research vessels side by side at sea is an unusual sight – but on Friday, R/V Svea and R/V Skagerak joined forces when SWERVE's workshop series on CTD profiling concluded with a cross-calibration in Danafjorden, near Gothenburg.
The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat invites Early Career Scientists to take part in a research program on a joint expedition with the Swedish Icebreaker Oden and the Canadian Icebreaker CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent 9 August – 19 September 2025.
The next sub-project in Polar Connect is now being launched, where five Nordic actors are coming together to secure the global digital infrastructure of the future.
Since September, Margareta Johansson is the new Head of Department for Land-Based Research Support at the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat with responsibility for the Abisko Scientific Research Station and the Wasa and Svea research stations in Antarctica. She has 25 years of experience in polar research and research infrastructure.
