Preface: the international polar year project ‘kinnvika’– arctic warming and impact research at 80° n

Abstract

Pohjola, V.A., Kankaanpää, P., Moore, J.C. and Pastusiak, T., 2011. The International Polar Year Project ‘KINNVIKA’– Arctic warming and impact research at 80° N. Geografiska Annaler, Series A, Physical Geography, 93, 201–208. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468‐0459.2011.00436.x

Acknowledgements

The Swedish Polar Research Secreteriat, The Polish Polar Station, the ship and personnel of RV Horyzont II of the Polish Marine Academy, the Norwegian Coast Guards KV Svalbard and its personnel, MS Farm and its captain Stig Henningsen, The University Centre of Svalbard (UNIS) and the Norwegian Polar Institute and their ship RV Lance are acknowledged for excellent support. In addition, the engagement for IPY‐KINNVIKA by Piotr Głowacki, Magnus Tannerfeldt and Ulf Hedman and their logistical muscles and know‐how was of paramount importance to us. The local services in Longyerbyen, Svalbard are thanked for assisting us to supply our expeditions, special thanks to Frank Bakken at Ingeniør G. Paulsen AS. We further thank Naviga and Airlift AS for their valuable services. The Governor of Svalbard is to be thanked for giving us permission to use the old IPY3 station Kinnvika. All hands of IPY‐KINNVIKA are thanked for making our common endeavour into such a success. Special thanks to Per‐Olof Edvinsson, Janne Johansson, Lasse Tano and Åke Wallin from SPRS, Mika Kalakoski from FINNARP, Rickard Pettersson and again, Piotr Głowacki for service in the field. Financial support by Metsä‐Tissue Serla OY/AB/AS, The Nordic Council of Ministers and The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat was paramount to IPY‐KINNVIKA. Finally, we are in debt to all persons that worked with us on outreach events regarding IPY4 and KINNVIKA, and making this effort not only restricted to a scientific success, but also into a widely known public event. Rickard Pettersson is acknowledged for making the map in Fig. 2. Regine Hock and Ulf Jonsell are acknowledged for providing the automatic weather station data used in Fig. 3. Bibliography referred to in the text are found at: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/ipy.html (portal to IPY history), http://www.kinnvika.net (portal to IPY‐KINNVIKA), http://ipy.arcticportal.org/ (portal to IPY4).

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Notes on contributors

Veijo A. Pohjola

Veijo A. Pohjola, Department of Earth Sciences, Air, Water and Landscape Science, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.

Email: [email protected]

Paula Kankaanpää

Paula Kankaanpää, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, POB 122, FI‐96101 Rovaniemi, Finland.

John C. Moore

John C. Moore, Department of Earth Sciences, Air, Water and Landscape Science, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden; Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, POB 122, FI‐96101 Rovaniemi, Finland; and College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Tadeusz Pastusiak

Tadeusz Pastusiak, Gdynia Maritime University, ul. Morska 81‐87, 81-345 Gdynia, Poland.