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Kevo Research Station [17] Kevo Finland 1958 12 7 Kilpisjärvi Biological Station [18] [19] Kilpisjärvi Finland 1964 Kiruna Atmospheric and Geophysical Observatory [20] [21] Kiruna Sweden 1957 Kluane Lake Research Station [22] Kluane Lake, Yukon Canada 1961 35 Koldewey Station: Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway Germany 1991
Biological stations (also known as biological field stations) are research stations specializing in biology and ecology. Their size and purpose varies, [1] mainly regarding research, conservation and education. [2] They are located in all biomes, including aquatic ones. Students, other scientists and the public are the aim public of these sites.
On 24 February, realising that they would be trapped until the following spring, Shackleton ordered the abandonment of the ship's routine and her conversion to a winter station. [139] Endurance drifted slowly northward with the ice through the following months. When spring arrived in September, the breaking of the ice and its later movements ...
A group of explorers from Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, 1907–1909, in the Antarctic hut at Cape Royds. When Shackleton went into McMurdo Sound in 1908, having failed to land on King Edward VII Land, he decided to build a hut at Cape Royds, a small promontory twenty-three miles north of Hut Point where Scott had stayed during the Discovery Expedition.
Jul. 17—The Flathead Lake Biological Station is leading an international team of biologists on a new research project, trading cool, blue mountain watersheds for the open ocean. The project ...
Point Wild is a point 11 km (6.8 mi) west of Cape Valentine, 2 km (1.2 mi) east of Saddleback Point, and directly adjacent to the Furness Glacier on the north coast of Elephant Island. It was named Cape Wild by the Shackleton Endurance expedition 1914–16, but Point Wild is recommended for this feature because of its small size and to avoid ...
Sep. 30—Diane Whited moved to the Flathead Valley for a one-year research position with the Flathead Lake Biological Station in 1999. Twenty-five years, she's celebrating over two decades of ...
Every May, students from U of M come to Pellston to learn and conduct research at the station in a setting similar to summer camp, but with a lot more science. Over 100 years of research ...