Titles of projects active on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard within IPY-KINNVIKA 2007-09

Overview, see details of the projects here [pdf]

Atmosphere focused studies
1. Spatial and temporal variability of snow properties on Vestfonna.
2. Monitoring of weather and climate characteristics: finding proxy data transfer functions.
3. Evaluate the changing inputs of atmospheric contaminants to surface snow and ice cores.
4. Estimating extent of anthropogenic radioactive fallout.

Biosphere focused studies
5. Spatial pattern and temporal dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems in relation to surface age and environmental change.
6. Biogenic and inorganic nitrogen fixation on snow surfaces.
Climatic and environmental direct and indirect archives
7. Shallow ice coring by Vestfonna Ice Cap: spatial analysis of chemical input and water isotopes, and accumulation patterns.
8. Neogene climate and environmental variability from lake, fiord and terrestrial sediments.

Geosphere focused studies
9. Tectonic evolution of the Barents Shelf.
10. Geological processes in the formation of the Arctic phosphogenic province.

Ice Mass focused studies
11. Mass balance and mass dynamic evolution of the Nordaustlandet ice masses.
12. Glacial dynamics and flow of Vestfonna Ice Cap.
13. A detailed study of the outlet glacier Franklinbreen, mechanics of calving processes and the onset zone of fast glacial flow.
Landscape focused studies
14. Quaternary landscape evolution of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard.
Society focused studies
15. Climate, Humans and their Prey - how important climate was as a limiting factor for historical human enterprise on Svalbard.
Systems focused studies