Exhibition Thursday-Sunday November 30-December 22, 2024, 12:00-17:00. Opening reception: Saturday, November 30, 2024, 12:00-17:00, with a discussion at 14:00. Lecture Sunday, December 8, 2024, 17:00-18:30.
A week ago Oden departed from the Victoria Fjord in Northern Greenland, aiming to go east around the northern tip of Greenland and arrive in Longyearbyen on Svalbard.
Ikaite is a special form of limestone that often forms in very cold seawater, in the polar oceans. A study led by Stockholm University researchers suggests that this highly unknown mineral plays an important role in the ocean's uptake of carbon dioxide.
Professor emeritus Hilding Sundqvist has passed away in Rättvik at the age of 90. Hilding worked at MISU for most of his career. At first as a research assistant and a PhD student, later as an associate professor and full professor. Hilding’s research area was dynamic meteorology with emphasis on cloud physics and numerical modeling.
As of September 1st, the expedition GEOEO North of Greenland 2024 expedition (GEOEO24) have returned to the entrance of Victoria Fjord with icebreaker Oden after spending 16 days in the fjord and the nearby Nordenskjöld Fjord to the north. Martin Jakobsson, professor of marine geology and geophysics at Stockholm University, is one of two scientific leaders for the expedition. Read his update from the expedition.
August 28, 2024, Johan Nilsson. We have now completed our exploration of the Victoria Fjord. Oden only managed to get 30 km into the 70 km long fjord. At that point the concentration of enormous icebergs became so dense that further progress was impossible.
August 15, 2024, Johan Nilsson. We have now reached deep into the Arctic and are at 82 degrees north, just off the coast of Greenland. Currently, we are at the entrance to the Sherard Osborne Fjord, which Oden visited in 2019.
August 7, 2024, Johan Nilsson. Oden has just begun its journey northwards from Pituffik (formerly Thule). Oden was anchored in the fjord outside Pituffik Air Base, which is the northernmost location with permanent residents in western Greenland.
MISU’s researcher Thorsten Mauritsen has been awarded funds from the Swedish National Space Agency to develop the satellite project Earth Climate Observatory (ECO) which is competing to be part of the European Space Agency ESA’s program Earth Explorer. The project is one of four main candidates and in 2029 one of these candidates will be chosen by ESA for the program.
In August, the icebreaker Oden will go to northern Greenland's hard-to-reach waters. Researchers on board will study how much and how rapidly melting glaciers can contribute to raising global sea levels.
The fast-changing Arctic climate is determined by a balance between heat imported from the south, most of it in the atmosphere, and energy lost to space by radiation at the top of the Arctic atmosphere. The expedition ARTofMELT2023 (Atmospheric Rivers and the Onset of Sea Ice Melt 2023), led by researchers from Stockholm University has collected unique observations of the processes that govern the transition from winter to summer in the high Arctic, the time when the Arctic ice starts melting.
The ARTofMELT science team met the first time after the expedition in May and June 20223 for a three-day science workshop at Stockholm University 22-24 April. The meeting was a great success and everyone left exhausted but also invigorated and eager to keep working together on understanding when, where and how the Arctic starts to melt in spring.
The European Space Agency ESA is set to select the next major satellite program. Researchers at Stockholm University are behind one of the four main candidates.
Solving complex questions about interactions between the sea and climate change, and how they relate to society, requires a broad set of skills. In a new research school, PhD students from diverse scientific disciplines at Stockholm University get a unique opportunity to learn how transdisciplinary approaches and research communication can lead to sustainable management of coastal environments.
An American Hercules airplane visits Kiruna until the beginning of April. The visit is part of a research project to better understand outbreaks of cold air over the Arctic.
On February 7, this year's Career Fair for students started with 15 exhibitors, eight lectures and a panel discussion. Students had the opportunity to mingle with prospective employers and listen to alumni sharing their experiences. The Department of Mathematics, Meteorology, Astronomy and Fysikum organised the day.
On 15–17 May, the second edition of the Swedish Climate Symposium will take place in Norrköping. The symposium offers is a unique opportunity for scholars and societal actors to seek greater scientific understanding of climate change and its consequences for the environment and society. David Wårlind is part of the steering group for the symposium, and we asked him three questions about why you don't want to miss the opportunity to participate.
Do you have an outstanding teacher who should be rewarded for their inspiring
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Arjen Stroeven, professor of Physical Geography at Stockholm University, is leading a research team in the expedition DML 2023/24 to Antarctica. During the austral summer in December to February the expedition will be measuring when and how often the East Antarctic ice sheet grows and collapses in interaction with climate change.
Within a new graduate school in ocean, climate and environmental issues, 12 doctoral students will be admitted at several of Stockholm University's departments.
During a research expedition led by Linnaeus University and Stockholm University to the deepest parts of the Baltic Sea in the Landsort Deep researchers recently discovered an area with extensive emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane from the bottom sediments.
The final chapter of the ARTofMELT expedition is the demobilization, as the researchers make their way back to the icebreaker Oden to gather their instruments and transport them to their respective home institutions. It has been three weeks since they set foot on land after spending nearly six weeks exploring the Arctic Ocean. We had the opportunity to speak with Chief Scientist Prof Michael Tjernström and Co-Chief Scientist Paul Zieger to hear about their experiences during the cruise and their plans for the near future.
”The spring has finally arrived,” announced Michael Tjernström, Professor at Stockholm University and Chief Scientist of ARTofMELT2023 to the expedition participants during the routine breakfast meeting at 08.30 UTC on June 10th. Excitement mixed with relief filled the room.
Today, 8th June, we celebrate our oceans, our planet’s “lungs”. While all oceans are very susceptible to climate change, among of the most affected ones is the Arctic Ocean.
Greetings from N 80°! The icebreaker Oden has the last week been moored onto an ice floe, to enable easy access to the sea ice and for running long-term measurements.
Researchers from Stockholm University are involved in the operation of two strategically placed measurement stations in the Maldives and Bangladesh, which capture air pollutants that affect people’s health and the climate. These pollutants come from diverse sources across the Indian subcontinent, which the research is seeking to pinpoint.
The Baltic Sea Fellows initiative, a network of young Baltic Sea researchers from several disciplines, was launched to strengthen the environmental Baltic Sea research at Stockholm University. The results of this year's awarded research grants from the Swedish Research Council and Formas show that it is going well. The group of researchers has raised over 25 million Swedish crowns this year.
The newly built drifter balances at the end of the four-metre-long boat hook. In a few seconds it will be launched and tested for the first time. At best, it will provide measurement data and can soon be picked up again. At worst, it disappears, forever.
On November 9th, it was time for MATS to take the first images of the atmosphere. At 10:32 CET, MATS was approaching Esrange Space Center – a centre for space activities and satellite communication located about 40 kilometers east of the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. At that moment, the control center, operated by OHB Sweden that built the MATS satellite platform, came in contact with the satellite via the tracking antenna at Esrange.
This year’s measurement confirms that the summit of Kebnekaise’s southern peak continues to be lower than that of the northern peak. However, in contrast to reports on extreme glacier mass loss in the Alps, glacier mass loss in Sweden was moderate during the summer of 2022, according to researchers at Tarfala Research Station.
The Askö laboratory is one of the twelve Swedish marine research stations that joined the network European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) in 2022. Thanks to the collaboration, researchers within the network get access to services, facilities, and technology platforms in Skagerrak, Kattegat, and the Baltic Sea, in addition to the other stations in the network.
Ice shelves are floating extensions of glaciers. If Greenland’s second largest ice shelf breaks up, it may not recover unless Earth’s future climate cools considerably. This is the result of a new study, published in Nature Communication.