20 Aug 2021 The giant box corer was launched on the Lomonosov ridge

17 Aug 2021 Oden has reached the North Pole for the tenth time!

17 Aug 2021 Press release: 30th anniversary of the icebreaker Oden at the North Pole

Yesterday, 16 August at 20:46 UTC, the Swedish icebreaker Oden arrived at the North Pole for the tenth time. The first visit was made in 1991 when Oden was the first non-nuclear-powered ship to reach the North Pole together with the German research icebreaker Polarstern. Since then, Oden has been to the North Pole in 1996, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2016 and 2018.

12 Aug 2021 Premiere of the big fishing net

10 Aug 2021 Oden anchors to the ice

05 Aug 2021 First ice station completed

23 Jul 2021 Maria Samuelsson sums up the quarantine week

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.

23 Jun 2021 Small Arctic organisms of great importance for life on Earth

Bacteria, and other small organisms without a cell nucleus, create conditions for life on our planet and assume art-like forms. This is something that fascinates Johan Wikner, professor of ecology at Umeå University, who is now preparing for the research expedition Synoptic Arctic Survey with the icebreaker Oden.

14 Jun 2021 "We want to increase the understanding of meteorological processes"

Weather balloons and meteorological measurements are in focus when Sonja Murto, PhD student at Stockholm University, participates in the research expedition Synoptic Arctic Survey.

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09 Jun 2021 "We want to get an overall picture of the state of the Arctic"

This summer's polar expedition with the icebreaker Oden constitutes the Swedish contribution within the international research initiative Synoptic Arctic Survey, SAS. One of the researchers participating is Adam Ulfsbo at the University of Gothenburg and he is really looking forward to the expedition.