After the first field course held in Abisko in March 2023, it was time for a follow-up. This time, the training took place in the Stockholm area. Over three days in October, participants practised, among other things, safety in steep terrain.
During the summer of 2023, Andreas Johnsson, a geomorphologist at the University of Gothenburg, visited Svalbard. The goal was to study similarities with Mars's landscape and how the island group is affected by global warming. Andreas Johnsson has conducted field studies in the area 13 times, and it is time for new measurements next year.
Sonja Gindorf, PhD student at the Department of Environmental Sciences (ACES) at Stockholm University, just finished the Arctic Ocean Research Cruise 2023 with RV Kronpins Haakon. She was one of two Swedish researchers selected through an open call by the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat.
When the icebreaker Oden arrived in Longyearbyen on Svalbard on June 14, it also marked the end of this year's Arctic expedition ARTofMELT 2023. In connection with this, H.R.H. the Crown Princess and the Minister for Climate and the Environment, Romina Pourmokhtari, visited Svalbard to meet researchers who participated in the expedition.
