Villum Research Station Campaign 2015
Station Nord and the Villum Research Station is located in the north-east corner of Greenland
Villum Research Station Campaign 2015
LOGISTICS & PRELIMINARY PLAN
ATMOSPHERIC GROUP
- Long-range transport of particle pollution to the Arctic and physical properties of Arctic aerosols (A. Massling/M. Bilde/M. Glasius)
- Greenhouse gas exchange over the Arctic Marine waters – focusing on CO2 and CH4 (GRAM) (L.L. Sørensen/T. Papakyriakou)
- Microbial atmospheric-terrestrial coupling driven by long distance transport and deposition (K. Finster)
LIMNIC & PALEOCLIMATE GROUP
- Glacier melting rates, sea ice variability and ocean circulation in the Danmarks Fjord area, Northeast Greenland (M-S. Seidenkrantz/N. Nørgaard/S. Ribeiro)
- Climate and lake ecosystem dynamics, in the high Arctic, over the Holocene, using lake sediment records (N.K. Larsen/T. L. Lauridsen)
SEA ICE GROUP
- Determination of the photosynthetic responses and acclimation of sea ice algae to changes in light climate, especially as governed by snow thickness (L.C. Lund-Hansen/B. Sorrell)
- Impact of snow cover on the inorganic carbon dynamic within sea ice (N-X. Geilfus)
- Sea ice geophysics - deployment of mass balance buoys (D. Barber/D. Babb)
- Sea ice geochemistry: mercury, ikaite, phosphate (F. Wang/S. Rysgaard/D. Barber/Y. Hu)
- Quantification of Ikaite (S. Rysgaard/H. Kyle)
- Comparison of the productivity and photosynthetic properties of microalgae in first-year and multi-year sea ice (S. Rysgaard/V. Galindo)
- Primary and bacterial productivity around St. Nord and near the ice tongue: impact of glacier melt (S. Rysgaard/V. Galindo)
- Sediment distributions and characteristics in seawater, sea ice and glacier ice (J. Ehn)
OCEANOGRAPHY GROUP
- AUV measurements (S. Rysgaard)
- Near-shore dynamics, circulation and hydrography around St. Nord and the nearby ice tongue (S. Rysgaard)
- Impact of ocean heat on landfast ice and tidewater glaciers (I. Dmitrenko/S. Kirillov)
TERRESTRIAL GROUP