By Christine Provost, Senior Marine Scientist, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) ICE-ARC scientists participated to two summer campaigns on board icebreakers to deploy autonomous instruments. One cruise was operated by the Korea… Read more »
Read Full »Overflight by research aircraft from British Antarctic Survey
By Mats Granskog, Chief scientist, and Polona Itkin, Research scientist, sea ice dynamics – April 27 2015 Another overflight over RV Lance was successfully completed on Sunday 19 April. This… Read more »
Read Full »Buoy deployments on Arctic sea ice
It is not common to encounter research vessels cruising through the Arctic ice pack in mid-winter. Thick and consolidated ice, polar night, and extreme weather conditions do not allow researchers… Read more »
Read Full »Twilight measurements
The sun is still under the horizon in the North Greenland settlement Qaanaaq at the north side of the fjord Inglefield Bredning. It will return on February 17th after three… Read more »
Read Full »Life on the North Greenland Ice
One distinctive aspect of the research being carried out in Work Package 3 (WP3) is that we work closely with people in northern Greenland as research partners. When we began planning our… Read more »
Read Full »Sediment cores taken with Greenland cruise
A sediment coring program was undertaken from the Danish navy vessel I/F Knud Rasmussen August 14th – 20 th 2014. The Danish Navy had generously placed the ship for the… Read more »
Read Full »ICE-ARC deploys buoys with help from the USA and South Korea
In August the South Korean icebreaker Araon sailed into the northern region of the Beaufort/Chukchi Sea region of the Arctic Ocean. This scientific cruise, a collaborative effort between ONR’s Marginal… Read more »
Read Full »Field work update: Methane and subsea permafrost studies in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf
Igor Semiletov and Natalia Shakhova of Arctic Marine Exploration, Russia, have recently completed the first phase of their field work in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, looking at methane escaping… Read more »
Read Full »First ICE-ARC fieldwork gets under way in NW Greenland
Steffan Olsen and colleagues from the Danish Meteorological Institute are Working on ice with Inuit hunters for observing ocean and sea-ice in the Arctic #Arctic #Greenland #ICEARCEU #Climate Researchers from… Read more »
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