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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.

Senior advisor Hans Meltofte, Aarhus University, has been awarded the Order of Dannebrog - partly for his comprehensive work on the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment which was published in 2013.

ARC teaches in Nuuk
We spent hours chipping away at the ice to free our equipment! Nevertheless data seem to be sufficient for determining the processes responsible for forming of the local vertical circulation cell....
It has been a true adventure being out in the white late-winter, traveling through remote landscapes and we now return with an extensive snow dataset....
It was a bumpy ride when Bruno De Lille was dragged over the ice sitting on the mobile tower battery box, but someone had to prevent the battery box from sliding when the tower was pulled from Daneborg Marine Research station to the research field...

David Babb, Masters student at the University of Manitoba, shares his recent experience as part of the science team conducting research out of Daneborg, in Young Sund on the Northeast side of Greenland.

Genetic research reveals when the polar bear became an independent species and provides important hints to understand cardiovascular diseases.

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