

Last Stop Before Antarctica: Cape Town, South Africa!
Content and Photo credits: Håkan Grudd and Jan-Ola Olofsson, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat All expedition participants are now...


Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden
The week of October 2-8 was a busy one for the members of MAGIC-DML. It was spent preparing for the upcoming field season and reviewing...


Field Training in Chilly Abisko, Sweden
Spring Training – Arctic style April, 2017 Although it seems like the 2016/17 field expedition to Antarctica only just ended,...
Preparation for an Arctic Expedition: Carl Lundberg
Testing, testing, testing! I have never quite come to terms with some stories of expeditions in the old days. They tried to use ponies to...


The Nunataks of Norway - testing equipment and concepts in preparation for our Antarctic fieldwork
The Scandinavian mountains and the East Antarctic Heimefrontfjella mountain range (where our fieldwork is based) have several...


Antarctica Expedition Training on the West Coast of Sweden
Last week, the MAGIC-DML took the first of its many steps at Röe Gård on the beautiful West Coast of Sweden. For the first time, the...


12 Week Countdown
12 weeks today our field team will be departing from Oslo, their next stop.... ANTARCTICA! We are all beginning to get excited,...