Part of the Danish Polar Center has moved to the National Environmental Research Institute at Aarhus University
5. January 2009
Zackenberg on Danish television
5. December 2008
Missing methane found at Zackenberg
Specialists in greenhouse gasses has for some time wondered what is the cause for the unexpectedly high concentrations of methane observed in the Arctic atmosphere during the autumn.
New research from Zackenberg Research Station shows that at least some of this methane might be squeezed out of the tundra in permafrost areas, when the upper part of the soil freezes in late autumn and in early winter. In the autumn of 2007 the tundra at Zackenberg contributed with more methane to the atmosphere during October than during the entire summer. The results have global significance due to the large areal extent of tundra areas with permafrost in Siberia and Northern Canada.
Get the article here ((Nature, issue 456, 4. december 2008)
Read the news article in Berlingske Tidende 4. December 2008 (in Danish)
Listen to program about Zackenberg at Radio Denmark (in Danish only)
15. October 2008
Zackenberg hits the IPY headlines
(15. October 2008)
New book concerning Zackenberg
The book 'High Arctic Ecosystem Dynamics in a changing climate. Ten years of monitoring at Zackenberg Research Station, Northeast Greenland.' is now available for sale. The book has is edited by Drs. Hans Meltofte, Torben Røjle Chistensen, Bo Elberling, Mads Forchhammer and Morten Rasch, and it is published by Elsevier Academic Press in New York. The publicaation of the book was celebrated at the conference 'After The Melt' at Aarhus University 5 - 7 may 2008.
Arctic spring comes two weeks earlier (Foråret kommer tidligere i Arktis). New results based on investigations at Zackenberg by Toke T. Høye et al., 19. juni 2007. BBC, Nature and Politiken (Danish) / June 2007