IPY-KINNVIKA - Arctic Warming and Impact Research at 80° N

During IPY4 (2007-2009) IPY-KINNVIKA (IPY project #58), formed an international and interdisciplinary platform for over 50 researchers to focus on issues of Arctic warming and impact research. KINNVIKA organized six major spring, and summer expeditions to the abandoned Swedish-Finnish-Swiss IPY3 (IGY) station Kinnvika at Nordaustlandet, Svalbard (80.03° N, 18.12° E). The scientific work was centered on Murchinson Bay and the ice cap Vestfonna, and comprised teams in Atmo-, Bio-, Cryo- and Geospheric disciplines. KINNVIKA formed the logistical platform for the various teams, coordinating mobile platforms such as helicopters, ships and snow machines, and supported the base Kinnvika with lodgments, as well as provided an over-all organization for scientific work and managed the contacts with the local Governor to get permissions on the work in the strict natural preserve Nordaustlandet Island . The poster will show preliminary results from the KINNVIKA teams, as well as giving short summary of this particular platform during IPY4.