Research project GEOEO – North of Greenland 2024 Expedition
In August–September 2024, the North of Greenland expedition with IB Oden will go to Northern Greenland and the adjacent Arctic Ocean, including the Lincoln Sea. The expedition forms a part of the research theme GEOEO (North Greenland Earth-Ocean-Ecosystem Observatory), which has been endorsed through the Polar Research Process.
The North of Greenland 2024 expedition addresses scientific questions focused on providing new knowledge on the marine cryosphere’s dynamic history and response to future climate change, including implications for marine and terrestrial ecosystems in North Greenland and the adjacent Arctic Ocean and the North Greenland Ice Sheet’s contribution to global sea-level rise.
Project description
Scientific goals of GEOEO
The GEOEO Theme is organized around seven broad scientific goals, which will be addressed by several complementing work packages prior, during and after the North of Greenland expedition 2024.
- Goal I) Unraveling the Late Glacial to Holocene history and dynamics of the N-GrIS
- Goal II) Providing new insight into the variability of the marine cryosphere of North Greenland and the adjacent Arctic Ocean
- Goal III) Investigating the interaction between ecosystem community composition, anthropogenic dynamics and climate fluctuations
- Goal IV) Quantifying ecosystem production and nutrient state in changing marine ecosystems north of Greenland
- Goal V ) Mapping of the remote ocean frontiers
- Goal VI) Mapping the presence of gas hydrates in marine sediments and gas in the water column and atmosphere
- Goal VII) Numerical modelling of the ice-ocean-atmosphere-geodynamic system