07 Jun 2021 "I hope to learn a lot from the researchers"

Anna Stiby, chemistry and biology teacher, was selected to participate in the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat's teacher program 2021. Now she has an intensive work period at Nacka gymnasium, but soon it's time to change the classroom to the icebreaker Oden and this summer's expedition to the Arctic Ocean.

03 Jun 2021 Plankton reveal how global warming is affecting the Arctic ecosystem

Hanna Farnelid, associate professor in marine ecology at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, is one of the researchers participating in this summer's Arctic expedition with the icebreaker Oden. This is her second expedition with Oden, the last time it happened was in 2007 when she participated in the expedition Oden Southern Ocean to Antarctica.

27 May 2021 Icebreaker Oden in the dry dock

17 May 2021 The icebreaker Oden has arrived to Landskrona

10 May 2021 Leads expedition to the Arctic Ocean with icebreaker Oden

“Hypothesis is a great word that has so much in it. A researcher's task is to develop a question, formulate a hypothesis and then test whether it is true or false. It is the most glorious word in science”, says Pauline Snoeijs Leijonmalm, Professor of Marine Ecology at Stockholm University. Soon she will go on her fourth research expedition with the icebreaker Oden, where she will have the role of Chief Scientist.

20 Apr 2021 Living module (ark) for field work

18 Feb 2021 Call for proposals: project level operational support

The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat’s operational support is granted to Swedish researchers to collect data and samples in the Arctic and in Antarctica. Priority is given to initiatives that would be difficult for a single research group to carry out on their own.

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.

12 Oct 2020 New research: iodic acid affects cloud formation in the Arctic

In 2018, the research expedition Arctic Ocean was carried out with the icebreaker Oden. One of the goals of the research on board was to understand how clouds form in the Arctic. With the help of data collected during the expedition, researchers at Stockholm University and the Swiss EPFL, among others, have now published an article in Nature Communications.