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Sverdrup Research Station represents one of about 20 member institutions and research facilities in the European Network for Arctic-Alpine Multidisciplinary Environmental Research (ENVINET).
The research facilities of the Sverdrup Research Station consist of dry and wet laboratories, a marine laboratory, an ecotoxicology laboratory, a radiation observatory with UV/VIS spectrometers and radiometers, an optical calibration laboratory, observation and instrument platforms and a meteorological station.
A staff of engineers and technicians maintains the station's instruments, as well as continuously collecting measurements of radiation, air pollution, ozone, seismic activity, and other data building up our knowledge of the polar regions. Assignments come from researchers at the Norwegian Polar Institute and other institutions. The station also offers research support services such as rentals of office space, field equipment, survival suits, snowmobiles, and rubber boats.
information from the
Norwegian Polar Institute web site,
and from ENVINET Page header photo above courtesy of: ENVINET |
| Location | ||||
| Description: |  The 700 square meter Sverdrup Research Station serves as a permanent observation platform for long and short term research and monitoring projects, as well as a field base offering logistical services and equipment to field research groups. Opened in 1999, the Sverdrup Research Station is Norwegian Polar Institutes solo base in Ny-Ålesund and is available to the international research community. A permanent staff maintains equipment, provides logistic support, and equips and advises field parties. Sverdrup Research Station is one of approximately 20 member institutions and research facilities involved in the European Network for Arctic-Alpine Multi-disciplinary Environmental Research (ENVINET). Joint scientific and technical studies address climate change, ozone and UV radiation, long-range transport of pollutants, and biodiversity. The biological studies at the station include monitoring programs on reindeer, arctic fox, polar bear and marine mammals and birds. An important activity at the station is effect studies of long-transported pollutants on Arctic birds and mammals. Glacier monitoring in the Ny-Ãlesund area is another major activity at the station . Mass balance studies have been performed on several glaciers in the area, and the oldest record on mass balance are from 1967. | |||
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| Primary Logistics Provider | ||||
| Organization: | Norwegian Polar Institute (NP) Sverdrupstasjonen | |||
| Name and title of contact person: | Sverdrup Research Station Station Manager | |||
| Address: | 9173 Ny-Ålesund, Norway | |||
| Telephone: | +47-79-27115 | |||
| Fax: | +47-79-027002 | |||
| E-mail: | stasjonsleder@nyaal.npolar.no or stationmanager@npolar.no | |||
| Contact person or agency web page: | http://www.npolar.no/ | |||
| Availability and Cost | ||||
| Availability: | Applications for direct research access to the station: Norwegian Polar Institute, Sverdrup Research Station N-9173 Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway E-mail: npf@nyaal.npolar.no Tel.: +47-79-027400 Fax: +47-79-027002 Application forms and information at web-address: http://www.npolar.no Applications for access and travel grants for new European researchers: Ny-Ålesund Large Scale Facility Norwegian Polar Institute Svalbard, Box 505 N-9171 Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway E-mail: nyaa-lsf@npolar.no Fax: +47-79-022604 Application form and information at web-address: http://www.npolar.no/nyaa-lsf | |||
| Communications and Data Systems | ||||
| Internet access, Telephone system, Fax send/receive, Local area network (LAN) | ||||
| Network: | The research station offers a number of offices for guest scientists with telephone, internet, guest computer and printing facilities. | |||
| Buildings | ||||
| Lodging, Food service, Sanitation, Storage, Refrigerated storage, Freezer, Indoor staging space, Workshop and garage | ||||
| Laboratory Space | ||||
| Electricity in lab space, Telephone in lab space, General use computers / printers in lab space, Desk/office space, Internet access in lab space, E-mail send/receive in lab space, Library, Wet lab, Dry lab, Microscope, Balance, Place to mount antennas, Hazardous materials disposal site, Workshop, Machine shop, Marine animal lab, Veterinary surgery | ||||
| Lab space: | The Biological Research Facilities contain several laboratory facilities for marine and terrestrial research. These include a marine laboratory containing wet and dry labs, lounge, wet lab with aquarium can be used as holding facility for marine organisms and for experiments based on flow-through ambient sea water, dry lab with microscope, balance, distilled water and some general lab supplies, dive compressor is available for 200/300 bar dive bottles, separate building (Vaskeriet) including offices for scientists, walk-in freezers, a dissection lab, a dry lab, storage rooms, laundry and drying facilities. a greenhouse with temperature-controlled rooms, two separate holding and experimental facilities where research is currently being conducted on the physiology of Arctic foxes and seabirds, an environmental (physiological/ecotox.) effect laboratory for small scale experiments, including holding facilities for short time experiments on Arctic birds and mammals, laboratories and offices, and a climate chamber for metabolic studies of birds and small mammals, and a light controlled room. | |||
| Science Support Equipment | ||||
| Science support equipment: | The station offers research support services such as rentals of office space, field equipment (tents, sleeping bags, primus, clothes), survival suits, snowmobiles, rubber and aluminum boats, and safety and communications equipment (guns, radios, personal locator beacons). | |||
| Science Support Personnel Available | ||||
| Science support coordinator, Science support logistics coordinator, Long term equipment and data monitors, Computer technicians | ||||
| Comments: | The station has a permanent staff of four: Station Manager, Optical Engineer, Operative Engineer and Logistics Engineer | |||
| Personnel and Services | ||||
| Other personnel or services: | A staff of engineers and technicians maintains the station’s instruments, as well as continuously collecting measurements of radiation, air pollution, ozone, seismic activity, and other data. | |||
| Current Projects and Research History | ||||
| Research sources: | Search ENVINET/AMAP Project Directory for Sverdrup Research Station 2000: Role of the necrophagic crustaceans in Arctic fjord ecosystem Primary Investigator: Joanna Legezynska, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Powstancow Warszawy 55, 81-712 Sopot, Poland 2000: Sub-catchment-scale fluvial sediment dynamics during glacier retreat Primary Investigator: Richard Hodgkins, University of London, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK 2000: Accumulation of natural and anthropogenic radionuclides in lithogenic and biogenic particles of the Kongsfjord Primary Investigator: Carlo Papucci, ENEA, Marine Environment Research Centre, P.O. Box 316, 19100 La Spezia, Italy 2000: Environmental influences on benthic microbioal community structure in Svalbard lakes and pools Primary Investigator: J Cynan Ellis-Evans, British Antarctic Survey, Mandingley Road, Cambridge, Cambs. CB3 0ET, UK 2000: Assessing the effectiveness of the white camouflage of Arctic birds and mammals, using field portable UV-VIS spectrometry Primary Investigator: Andrew T.D. Bennett, University of Bristol, School of Biological Sciences, Woodland Rd, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK 2001: Energy cost of parental care in free-ranging Arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) Primary Investigator: Eli Geffen, Institute for Nature Conservation Research, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Israel 2001: Organic enrichments effects on an Arctic sandy beach community Primary Investigator: Jan Marcin Weslawski, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Powstancow Warszawy 55, 81-712 Sopot, Poland 2001: Calving intensity of tidewater glaciers in NW Spitsbergen and its importance for contemporary evolution of glacier system Primary Investigator: Jacek Jania, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia, ul. Bedzinska 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland 2001: High-resolution 3-D ground-penetrating radar surveys to infer glacier basal processes and conditions Primary Investigator: Tavi Murray, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK 2001: Bryozoa - potential indicators of environmental changes in Arctic fjords Primary Investigator: Piotr Kuklinski, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Powstancow Warszawy 55, Sopot 81-712, Poland 2001: Snow hydrology of arctic polythermal glaciers Primary Investigator: Ian Willis, University of Cambridge, Department of Geography, Downing Place, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, UK 2001: Role of organic and inorganic particles in the mobility of radionuclides in the Kongsfjord-krossfjord system Primary Investigator: Carlo Papucci, ENEA - Marine Environment Research Centre, P.O. Box 224, I-19100 La Spezia, Italy 2002: The surface energy budget and its impact on superimposed ice formation (SEBISUP) Primary Investigator: Christian Haas, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bussestrasse 24, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany 2002: Transport, burial and fluxes of carbon and contaminants in Arctic lake and fjordic sediments Primary Investigator: Kenneth Black, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, Scotland, UK PA34 4AD 2002: Bipolar investigations of physiological stress susceptibility and responses in microbes and arthropods Primary Investigator: Peter Convey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK CB3 0ET 2002: Arctic islands of genetic diversity or fragments of an ancient clone: The history and future of Dryas octopetala in a changing environment Primary Investigator: Dylan Gwynn-Jones, University of Wales, Inst. of Biological Sciences, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DA, Wales, UK 2002: Monitoring spatiotemporal variations in snow cover albedo using a remote multispectral digital camera Primary Investigator: Birger Ulf Hansen, Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Oester Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark Click here for information on research in the vicinity of Ny-Ålesund from the database of Veco Polar Resources. | |||