12 May 2022 Over 100 years of meteorological measurements in Abisko

Abisko Scientific Research Station was built in 1912 after the research station in Katterjokk burned down. The following year, the meteorological measurements were started, and for several decades data has been collected on behalf of SMHI. The over one-hundred-year long series of measurements has qualified the measuring station as a Centennial Observing Station, an award given by the World Meteorological Organization WMO.

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.

02 Mar 2022 Antarctic organisations launch fellowship and scholarship opportunities

The COMNAP, IAATO & SCAR Fellowships

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.

31 Jan 2022 Ten days left at Wasa

Ola Eriksson, expedition leader for DML 2021/22, gives us an update on what's happening in Antarctica at the research station Wasa.

18 Jan 2022 Garage construction has begun

29 Dec 2021 Full activity after the storm

21 Dec 2021 The wind has overturned a living module

20 Dec 2021 Webinar invitiation: expedition to northern Greenland 2024

Introductory webinar for expedition with icebreaker Oden 2024. 8 February 2022, 15.30‒17.00 CET (9.30-11:00 AM EST, 4.30-16:00 UTC)

17 Dec 2021 Swedish researchers make new measurements of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica

Anna Wåhlin is a professor of Oceanography at the University of Gothenburg. In January, she will participate in an expedition on the American research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer. The goal is to continue research on what happens beneath one of the largest floating glaciers in Antarctica, the Thwaites Glacier, using the autonomous underwater vehicle Ran.