14 Aug 2025 August 14th: Today we caught our first glimpse of Greenland!

13 Aug 2025 August 13th – We survived the night!

12 Aug 2025 August 12th: 8am departure from Reykjavik – the expedition begins!

28 Jul 2025 Strong interest in Arctic expedition aboard R/V Skagerak

From 11 to 19 August, Julia Muchowski at the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat will serve as ECR Programme Coordinator aboard the research vessel R/V Skagerak during a nine-day research expedition to Greenland.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.