PRA Melting-ICE Project: Svalbard 2022 Expeditions Report [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Enrico Maiero, Elisa Baldrighi, Riccardo Cerrato, Delia Segato, Massimiliano Vardè, Mauro Mazzola, Iain Rudnik, James Bradley, Margaret Cramm, Angelina Cordone, Stefano Caliro, Donato Giovannelli, Francesco Montemagno, Carlo Cardellini, Martina Cascone, Elena Manini, Jacopo Pasotti

“…This report describes three specific expeditions performed on the Svalbard archipelago, carried out within the framework of the PRA (Italian Arctic Research Program) project Melting-ICE, performed between February and October 2022, reporting site characteristics and samples collected. …”
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Devonian–Mississippian magmatism related to extensional collapse in Svalbard: implications for radiating dyke swarms [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Gillian R. Foulger, Sebastian Tappe, Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, Ingrid M. Anell

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Narrowing of glacial isthmus between Sørkapp Land and Torell Land, southern Spitsbergen, 1900–2023 by Michał Pawłowski, Krzysztof Ostafin

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Loss of pelagic fish and zooplankton density associated with subglacial upwelling in high Arctic estuaries may be mitigated by benthic habitat expansion following tidewater glacier... by Victor Gonzalez Triginer, Arunima Sen, Maxime Geoffroy, Børge Damsgård

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A dataset on environmental DNA, bacterio-, phyto- and zooplankton from an emerging periglacial lagoon in Svalbard, ArcticMendeley DataMendeley Data by Sergej Olenin, Dzmitry Lukashanets, Anastasija Zaiko, Aurelija Samuilovienė, Irina Olenina, Evelina Grinienė, Tobia Politi, Aleksej Šaškov, Greta Kilmonaitė, Andrius Šiaulys

“…Over the last few decades, climate change in Svalbard (European Arctic) has led to the emergence and growth of periglacial coastal lagoons in the place of retreating glaciers. …”
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Longyearbyen CO2 lab project—from a vision of a CO2-neutral Svalbard to a geoscience data eldorado by Kim Senger, Peter Betlem, Alvar Braathen, Snorre Olaussen, Gunnar Sand

“…The Longyearbyen CO2 lab project was initiated in 2006 by the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) to establish whether subsurface storage of locally produced CO2 is feasible. …”
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Seasonal changes in the viability and abundance of bacterial cells in the snowpack ecosystem of a High Arctic ice cap by Archana Dayal, Andrew Hodson, Marie Šabacká, Alan Smalley

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Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N5) detected in an Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, 2023 by Alexander Postel, Nele Gremmel, Christian Lydersen, Kit M. Kovacs, Luca A. Schick, Ursula Siebert, Ingebjørg H. Nymo, Paul Becher

“…The animal was found dead in Svalbard, Norway, in 2023. Sequence analysis revealed the highest genetic similarity with virus isolates from different avian hosts.…”
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Proglacial methane emissions driven by meltwater and groundwater flushing in a high-Arctic glacial catchment by G. E. Kleber, G. E. Kleber, G. E. Kleber, L. Magerl, A. V. Turchyn, S. Schloemer, M. Trimmer, Y. Zhu, Y. Zhu, A. Hodson, A. Hodson

“…<p>Glacial groundwater is a conduit for geologic methane release in areas of glacier retreat on Svalbard, representing a large, climate-sensitive source of the greenhouse gas. …”
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Science–tourism intersections onboard Arctic expedition cruise ships: Reflective insights from a fieldwork at the geographic North Pole by Alix Varnajot, Élise Lépy

“…Departing from Longyearbyen, Svalbard, this two-week ship-time fieldwork took us to the geographic North Pole, across the Arctic Ocean sea ice, and to several locations in northern Svalbard. …”
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A glimpse into the biogeography, seasonality, and ecological functions of arctic marine Oomycota by Brandon T. Hassett, Marco Thines, Anthony Buaya, Sebastian Ploch, R. Gradinger

“…Across the Arctic, Oomycota comprised a maximum of 6% of the entire eukaryotic microbial community in Barrow, Alaska May sediment and 10% in sea ice near the Svalbard archipelago. We found Arctic marine Oomycota encode numerous genes involved in parasitism and carbon cycling processes. …”
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ICESat-2 Reveals Accelerated Global Glacier Mass Loss Except Alaska From 2019 to 2023 by Yubin Fan, Lanhua Luo, Chang-Qing Ke, Genyu Wang

“…Accelerated but contrasting patterns of glacier mass change have been observed, with an accelerated mass loss found in regions such as Svalbard, Russian Arctic, the High Mountain Asia, and the southern Andes. …”
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Investigation of Ionospheric Small‐Scale Plasma Structures Associated With Particle Precipitation by F. Enengl, L. Spogli, D. Kotova, Y. Jin, K. Oksavik, N. Partamies, W. J. Miloch

“…In this scope, we analyze together data recorded by an Ionospheric Scintillation Monitor Receiver (ISMR) of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals and by an All‐Sky Imager located in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway). We leverage on the raw GNSS samples provided at 50 Hz by the ISMR to evaluate amplitude and phase scintillation indices at 1 s time resolution and the Ionosphere‐Free Linear Combination at 20 ms time resolution. …”
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Sustainable Development Goals and the Geosciences: A Review by Kim Senger

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Get it while it's hot: Benefits of a large herbivore exploiting stochastic resource pulses in a time of food scarcity by Samantha P. H. Dwinnell, Larissa T. Beumer, René van derWal, Steve D. Albon, Åshild Ø. Pedersen, Øystein Holand, Brage B. Hansen, R. Justin Irvine, Erik Ropstad, Vebjørn Veiberg, Leif Egil Loe

“…Using 12 years of GPS‐location data and annual measures of body mass in 72 adult female Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus), we tested whether individuals with greater use of nutritionally beneficial resource pulses in autumn and early winter are heavier going into parturition in spring. …”
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Case studies of different types of precipitation at Ny-Ålesund, Arctic by Lekhraj Saini, Saurabh Das, Nuncio Murukesh

“…The phase changes were explained by the vertical precipitation profiles over Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard ( $$78^o$$ 55’ N, $$11^o$$ 56’ E), observed using a Micro Rain Radar (MRR) and vertical atmospheric profiles using the ground-based microwave radiometer (MWR). …”
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Boreal waterways: An Early Cretaceous plesiosaur from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic and its palaeobiogeography by Lene L. Delsett, Adam S. Smith, Stephen Ingrams, Simon Schneider

“…Its presence in the Sverdrup Basin is additional evidence for the connectivity of Arctic Canada and the Svalbard region during the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition, at a time when sea levels were low and microplankton, like dinoflagellates, experienced enhanced provincialism. …”
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Distribution, Composition, and Vertical Fluxes of Particulate Matter in Bays of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Vaigach Island at the End of Summer by N. V. Politova, V. P. Shevchenko, V. V. Zernova

“…An analysis of suspended particulate matter (SPM) and phytoplankton distribution, composition and vertical particle fluxes in Russkaya Gavan’ Bay (Northern Island of the Novaya Zemlya), Bezymyannaya Bay (Southern Island of the Novaya Zemlya), Dolgaya Bay (northwestern part of the Vaigach Island) in comparison with the data from the Svalbard Archipelago is presented. Field studies were carried out by the authors during the 9th expedition of the RV “Professor Logachev” in September 1994, the 11th, 13th, and 14th expeditions of the RV “Akademik Sergey Vavilov” in September-October 1997 and August-September 1998. …”
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The Shipwreck of the Airship “Dirigibile Italia” in the 1928 Polar Venture: A Retrospective Analysis of the Ionospheric and Geomagnetic Conditions by B. Zolesi, M. Pezzopane, C. Bianchi, A. Meloni, Lj. R. Cander, R. Tozzi

“…Abstract On 25 May 1928 the airship “Dirigibile Italia” during its return trip to the base in NyAlesund, after overflying the North Pole, shipwrecked on the ice‐pack in a region at about 400 km northeast of Svalbard Islands. Survivors, by using a portable high frequency (HF) radio transmitter, tried unsuccessfully to send SOS messages and to establish a radio link with the ship “Città di Milano” of the Italian Navy, closely anchored at King's Bay. …”
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The Arctic front of the global hybrid warfare by E O. Labetskaya

“…The researcher notes that the population of the islands of Svalbard and Wrangel is exposed to a remarkably large-scale hostile hybrid influence from the NATO countries, and concludes that Russophobic narratives peddled to the peoples of the Subarctic pose a serious risk to regional stability. …”
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