Polar research has a long tradition within the Kingdom of Denmark, and in a newly published report undertaken by the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU) a quantitative overview of the current status is presented.
Our Greenlandic colleague, Akaraaq, from the ‘Arctic Station’ in Qeqertarsuaq, guided us to Fortuna Bay, the perfect setting for testing potential effects of kelp forests on O2-concentratons and pH.
It’s 5 a.m. and I’m sitting in Winnipeg Airport, wearing heavy-duty jacket and boots while everyone else is in shorts and sandals! I’m off to Edmonton and then Yellowknife and finally Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
A team of ten people from six different countries - Greenland, Canada, Denmark, USA, Belgium and Finland - are gathered at the Zackenberg station in Daneborg, NE Greenland (74N) in leg three of this year’s comprehensive field campaign in the Arctic Science Partnership collaboration.
Life in the field is not for everyone. There are certain luxuries that of course you miss; such as showers, clean laundry, dry clothes and your own bed. When I try to explain how my job brings me out the field to incredibly remote locations to my friends and family, I usually get the same puzzl
I have spent the last month in an ice camp in the Canadian Arctic near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut conducting a research experiment on snow-covered sea ice, as a member of the ASP Cambridge Bay field campaign.
My 2014 field campaign began on the first of March, with the arrival of myself, colleagues Dr. C.J. Mundy, Aurelie Delaforge and Wen Xu in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
You may ask yourself why a musk ox first crosses a wide frozen fjord and continues up a frozen high-altitude glacier where it wanders for several days over the Clavering Island in Northeast Greenland. But it does. And this is quite true because last year fourteen musk oxen had satellite transmitters fitted around their necks and researchers in Denmark now receive information every hour on the whereabouts of the oxen in the world’s largest national park.
Kelp forests are thriving in the long light midsummer days and this is the perfect time of year to measure photosynthesis and to determine the possible buffering role of the expanding marine vegetation against ocean acidification in coastal waters of Greenland.
