Interviews for Synoptic Arctic Survey 2021

The icebreaker Oden is being prepared for the Canada-Sweden Arctic Ocean 2025 expedition

09 Jul 2025 The icebreaker Oden is being prepared for the Canada-Sweden Arctic Ocean 2025 expedition

Mobilisation for the Canada–Sweden Arctic Ocean 2025 expedition is underway in the port of Helsingborg, where the icebreaker Oden is being prepared and outfitted for the expedition.

Expedition controlled by the weather

20 Mar 2023 Expedition controlled by the weather

During this year's Arctic expedition with the icebreaker Oden, the researchers want to document the transition between winter and summer. This goal requires flexible planning and, based on weather forecasts, being able to move Oden to places where warm air enters the Arctic.

"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.

The bedrock can tell how Antarctica has changed

22 Nov 2021 The bedrock can tell how Antarctica has changed

Two research projects are participating during this year's Antarctic Expedition DML 2021/22, which the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat organises. One of these projects is looking for answers to how Antarctica will develop in a future warmer climate. Part of the answer lies in bedrock and moving blocks that the ice sheet brought with it.

Expedition will validate satellite measurements of the Antarctic ice sheet

01 Nov 2021 Expedition will validate satellite measurements of the Antarctic ice sheet

Ian Brown, Associate professor in Earth Observation at Stockholm University, leads one of two research groups that will conduct an expedition in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, starting in December. The goal is to better understand the uncertainty in satellite measurements of the ice sheet and what it depends on.

"We will continue training in Antarctica"

25 Oct 2021 "We will continue training in Antarctica"

An extensive field course was recently held at Abisko Scientific Research Station as part of the preparations for the Antarctic expedition DML 2021/22. The five-day field course is mandatory for those participating in the expedition.

Wasa has been equipped with living modules for fieldwork

25 Oct 2021 Wasa has been equipped with living modules for fieldwork

The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat has equipped the Antarctic research station Wasa with three living modules. The living modules offer fast protection against weather and wind, a warm sleeping place, the opportunity to heat food and load technical equipment.

Press release: The icebreaker Oden conducts research in a hard-to-reach area

12 Jul 2021 Press release: The icebreaker Oden conducts research in a hard-to-reach area

The research expedition Synoptic Arctic Survey, originally planned for 2020, had to be postponed due to the pandemic. Now, this year's expedition starts off by 38 researchers being quarantined at a hotel in Malmö on 16 July. Ten days later, the icebreaker Oden leaves Sweden to carry out measurements in one of the world's most difficult to access marine areas between Greenland and the North Pole.

Press release: Expedition will reveal how the climate has changed over 50 million years

17 Feb 2021 Press release: Expedition will reveal how the climate has changed over 50 million years

In 2022, the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat (SPRS) and Arctic Marine Solutions (AMS) will jointly conduct an expedition of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), focused on the Arctic Ocean – a key location in global climate change.

An oceanic sill influences melting of one of Greenland’s glaciers

15 Dec 2020 An oceanic sill influences melting of one of Greenland’s glaciers

Greenland’s melting ice sheet has in recent years contributed with about 26 percent to the global sea-level rise according to published calculations, but how different glaciers are affected by climate change differs. Research from the Ryder Expedition with the icebreaker Oden in 2019, shows that a relatively shallow formation in the seabed in front of one of North Greenland’s largest glaciers, reduces the amount of warmer Atlantic waters that reach the glacier and melt it from below.

Research on fish and microbes in the Central Arctic Ocean

23 Oct 2020 Research on fish and microbes in the Central Arctic Ocean

Pauline Snoeijs Leijonmalm, Professor of Marine Ecology at Stockholm University, participated in the first leg of five during the polar expedition MOSAiC. A strong memory is when the German research icebreaker RV Polarstern anchored to an ice floe to drift with the pack ice in the Arctic Ocean for a year.

01 Sep 2020 Russian-Swedish expedition will study greenhouse gas emissions

Twelve researchers at Stockholm University and the University of Gothenburg will participate in an expedition to the East Siberian Arctic Shelf where they will study greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, which can accelerate global warming. The expedition is part of the International Siberian Shelf Study (ISSS), a Swedish-Russian collaboration that goes back fifteen years.

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