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Runway made of ice needs to repair its holes

SAMCoT`s Master student involved in “Runway made of ice needs to repair its holes”

Troll Airfield on Princess Martha Coast in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, connects the Norwegian Polar Institute with the world. Boeing 757 as well as Hercules C-130 land repeatedly on the glacial blue ice runway and create a vital link for transportation of people and supplies.

Ice is a week building material and the sun melts holes in the runway even in the Antarctica.  SAMCoT team was invited by Sven Lidström, who coordinates operations at the Polar Institute.

Maren Salte Kallelid is a Master student at NTNU`s SAMCoT and UNIS. Together with her Post Doc Supervisor Torodd Nord, she developed specialized lightweight drill to measure ice. Maren spent 3 February weeks in Troll drilling and analyzing ice from the runway and other ice areas used to patch the holes. The Drill`s great advantage is ability to measure samples for its strength directly on site. The test results help the Troll team to keep the runway in top shape. This video illustrates her work.

SAMCoT Waves Attenuation in Ice Full-Scale Experiment

SAMCoT Waves Attenuation in Ice Full-Scale Experiment

When ocean waves penetrate into an ice field a so-called Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) is formed, which is the transition area where the ice cover is significantly affected by waves and open-ocean processes. Arctic shipping and engineering developments require knowledge on how ocean waves and ice may alter each other’s properties. This knowledge is also needed for improving numerical models with respect to their capabilities to predict Arctic marine conditions.

Rune Teigland talks about Total and HSE in the Arctic

Rune Teigland talks about TOTAL and HSE in the Arctic

TOTAL Norway is a member of SAMCoT, NTNU's Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology programme. Rune Teigland, who is R&D manager for the Norway E&P office, says SAMCoT's expertise is especially important in protecting the fragile Arctic.

Arctic Safety Centre video

Arctic Safety Centre

Hvordan jobbe og ferdes trygt i utrygge strøk? Kommer du ut for en ulykke i Arktis er hjelpen langt unna. På Svalbard skal det etableres utdanning og forskning på arktisk sikkerhet gjennom et nytt senter: Arctic Safety Centre ved Universitetssenteret på Svalbard (UNIS).

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Helikopter lander på isbryter i Arktis

Helikopter lander på isbryter i Arktis

Hvordan kan fartøyer som ferdes i Arktis holde seg i ro når havisen presser dem i ulike retninger? Videoen viser er en landing med helikopter på isbryteren Oden under Oden Arctic Technology Research Cruise 2012.

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Når isen forsvinner VIDEO

Lazarus ice

Global climate change is causing Arctic sea ice to melt at an accelerating rate, increasing the ability of ships and other structures to travel though Arctic waters. But even as they melt, some sea ice structures actually get stronger.

Read NTNU´s journalist Nancy Bazilchuk´s article on GEMINI

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Undervannseventyr i Arktis VIDEO

A peek under Arctic ice

In the Arctic, one type of sea ice structure, called an ice ridge, can actually get stronger in the summer due to melting. Think of it as Lazarus ice: instead of melting away to nothing in the heat of the Arctic summer, some ice ridges actually come back to life like Lazarus from the Bible, and are stronger at the end of the summer.

Read NTNU´s journalist Nancy Bazilchuk´s article on GEMINI

 

Safety on ice VIDEO

Safety on ice

The video 'Safety on ice' shows you a glance of SAMCoT`s researchers life Up North and some of clues to work safely. Researchers with NTNU’s Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology Centre don’t just study health, safety and environment (HSE) issues in their research in the High Arctic – they live HSE first hand. That first-hand experience makes industry safer, and protects the Arctic’s fragile environments.
 

Do you want to learn more about SAMCoT's work on HSE?
Read NTNU's journalist Nancy Bazilchuk's article on GEMINI: 'Working safely to protect a cold, remote place'

 


Oden Arctic Technology Research Cruise (OATRC 2013)

Oden Arctic Technology Research Cruise (OATRC 2013)

SAMCoT researchers travel to some of the most inaccessible places on the planet, most recently, to the icy waters off the northeast coast of Greenland. The video below highlights some of the research undertaken in the autumn of 2013 during the Oden Arctic Technology Research Cruise (OATRC 2013).

 


SAMCoT HSE

SAMCoT HSE

SAMCoT, the Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology Programme, is all about promoting HSE programmes that protect health safety and the environment in the far-flung reaches of the Arctic. In one of its two meetings annually, the SAMCoT board traveled to Svalbard to experience firsthand the HSE challenges facing researchers in the Arctic. Lucky for them the weather was extremely fine. But the experience also drove home how incredibly fragile the Arctic is making it all the more important to protect it.

Statoil and arctic operations

Statoil and arctic operations

Øystein Braathen, director, Mid-Ocean and Arctic Design for Statoil, talks about arctic operations and the importance of the research from NTNU's Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology programme in keeping operations safe and protecting the environment.

Emilie video FRAME

Keeping Arctic villages, infrastructure from falling into the sea

The Arctic is set to be a 21st century boomtown, as summer sea ice melts away, opening the area to increased trans-Arctic shipping and oil and gas development. A new understanding of Arctic coastal erosion offers clues to how to best protect the docks and other infrastructure this development will bring.

Read NTNU´s journalist Nancy Bazilchuk´s article on GEMINI

 


Sea video

Studying sea ice ridges in the Arctic

Global warming is upending virtually everything that scientists know about the Arctic ice cap. During the first half of 2015, a multinational team of researchers froze the RV Lance into the Arctic ice to learn more about how this ice has changed. NTNU researchers were among the scientists seeking to learn more about this changing environment.

Read NTNU's journalist Nancy Bazilchuk's article on GEMINI

 


In search of the perfect ice:

In search of the perfect ice

The video 'search of the perfect ice' shows you a glance of a SAMCoT`s field work activity aiming to track icebergs using ice tracker drifters. SAMCoT researchers will then study the obtained data to learn more about drifting ice and extrapolate this knowledge to make structures safer and more resistant to stress from floating ice.

 


SAMCoT PhDs

Anna Pustogvar: SAMCoT PhD

An important part of SAMCoT's programme is giving PhD candidates field experience and contact with the industry, so they can get full scale field data and talk to the potential users of those data. Hayo Hendrikse and Anna Pustogvar, who both participated in the OATRC 2013 cruise, talk about their experience and what it's like to be a PhD at SAMCoT.

 


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Hayo Hendrikse: SAMCoT PhD

An important part of SAMCoT's programme is giving PhD candidates field experience and contact with the industry, so they can get full scale field data and talk to the potential users of those data. Hayo Hendrikse and Anna Pustogvar, who both participated in the OATRC 2013 cruise, talk about their experience and what it's like to be a PhD at SAMCoT.

 


Oden Arctic Technology Research Cruise (OATRC 2012):

Oden Arctic Technology Research Cruise (OATRC 2012):

In 2012, the Oden Arctic Technology Research Cruise also went to the waters off the northeast coast of Greenland. SAMCoT director Sveinung Løset talks about the importance of the cruise and describes what happens during an ice station, when the Oden icebreaker is moored to a big ice sheet and researchers conduct a series of tests. The time-lapse footage that is the centrepiece of this video was shot by Øyvind Hagen, a Statoil photographer who went on the 2012 cruise: