Although the actual goal of the 1872-1874 expedition led by Julius Payer and Carl Weyprecht to reach the Northeast Passage and the North Pole was not achieved, August Petermann's theory of the open Arctic Ocean could no longer be upheld.…
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Franz Josef Land is located in Russia to the east of Svalbard and west of Novaya Zemlya, the island extension of the Urals. The southernmost island is located at approx. 80°, the northernmost island at almost 82° north. Location of…
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Tobias, an East Greenlandic hunter who takes us in the open motorboat from Tasiilaq, the East Greenlandic administrative centre, to the station skilfully steers the boat over the wave crests rolling in from the open North Atlantic. The trip along…
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A new home for the Austrian Polar Research in East Greenland is becoming reality. The construction on the area of the Sermilik Research Station is continuously proceeding. What is so special about the place and how did the observations at…
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In the first part of our expedition report, we focused on project planning and execution. In the following, we will describe the initial findings in comparison to Alfred Wegener's insights. In the initial phase of the project, we focused on…
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Since the approval of WEG_Re (Centennial Climate Drivers of Glacier Changes in Greenland) by the Austrian Science Fund FWF in November 2021, the APRI team of the University of Graz together with the Know Center Graz has been working on…
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For social scientists working in the Arctic, it is not given to focus on infrastructure, and for a long time the focus has primarily been on the relations of Arctic inhabitants with their "natural" environments (see Schweitzer et al. 2017).…
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Receiving the Philippe Duchaufour Medal of the European Geoscience Union EGU Granted research fund of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) "Excellence Cluster" for the part “Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health” Receiving the Research Award from the City of Vienna Andreas A.…
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In two previous articles we have described the social and artistic aspects of the Arctic Science Summit Week in Vienna (The social facest of ASSW2023 and APRI meets canadian ambassador). In the first article the keynote lecture, One, Two or…
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The large landslide in the form of a frozen debris avalanche occurred on June 13, 2021, at 04:04 a.m. local time in West Greenland on the southern coast of the Nuussuaq Peninsula near Assapaat, opposite Disko Island. Location of…
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