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Bacterial respiration and abundance affect life in the Arctic Ocean

11 Mar 2022 Bacterial respiration and abundance affect life in the Arctic Ocean

What is the abundance, diversity, growth rate and respiration of Bacteria and Archea in the Arctic Ocean ecosystem? This is the question Johan Wikner, Professor in Ecology at Umeå University, and his team studied during the Synoptic Arctic Survey 2021 expedition with the icebreaker Oden.

"I pay attention to details and am alert to what is around me. Always with an eye for rocks, lines and dots."

01 Feb 2022 "I pay attention to details and am alert to what is around me. Always with an eye for rocks, lines and dots."

It's time to welcome an artist to a research expedition with the icebreaker Oden! The visual artist Cecilia Cissi Hultman will participate in ArcOP 2022 to the Arctic Ocean. She received the news while in Berlin.

Welcome home!

20 Sep 2021 Welcome home!

A final box corer sample before returning home

12 Sep 2021 A final box corer sample before returning home

Off the coast of Greenland

05 Sep 2021 Off the coast of Greenland

Heavy ice, adjusted route and a new station

02 Sep 2021 Heavy ice, adjusted route and a new station

Sampling day and night

01 Sep 2021 Sampling day and night

Friday greetings from a beautiful and frosty Arctic!

27 Aug 2021 Friday greetings from a beautiful and frosty Arctic!

Choosing the best path

25 Aug 2021 Choosing the best path

Halfway through the expedition

22 Aug 2021 Halfway through the expedition

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The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat is a government agency that promotes and co-ordinates Swedish polar research. This includes to follow and plan research and development, as well as to organise and lead research expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica.