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Barents Sea & Svalbard

Barents Sea & Kapp Lee, Svalbard, July 2022

Life at sea...

Surrounded by an endless horizon, we navigate into the infinite beauty, where further adventures await and new experiences are created.

Arctic seabirds keep us company during our survey in the Barents Sea, where playful and feeding humpback whales are a pleasant display for our ever searching eyes for marine mammals.

After many weeks spent surveying in pelagic waters, the mountainous landscape of Svalbard is an exciting sight.

Whether out at sea or on land, a curious and observant eye is the key for spotting wildlife. Even the biggest creatures appear small in their vast environments. Do you spot the polar bear in the next pictures?

The walk of the polar bear leads to a beach, where a colony of walruses are enjoying the late evening sun.

The bear seems to be dreaming of walrus for dinner, but after a couple of shy hunt tries, it continues its long distance walk.

Almost two months have past since the Barents Sea survey started in early June. August is already here with new ventures ahead.

Thanks so much to all my friends and colleagues at the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) for a great summer in the Arctic!

Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Spitsbergen, Svalbard, June 2022

Back to Arctic waters, where I am joining a marine mammal survey in the Barents Sea. The majority of our two months´ work is spent far out at sea, surrounded by the endless horizon.

So far, we made it up to over 80°N and have also spent some few days closer to land, exploring a bit of the magnificent world of Svalbard.

In this blogpost are some photos from a day spent in Woodfjord, a fjord on the north coast of Spitsbergen, followed by a passage through the ice filled Hinlopen Strait, before heading out to open waters again.

My Sister Nanna on Spotify

Orust, West Coast of Sweden, May/June 2022

My beautiful, super creative sister, Nanna, is in full production mode. How lovely it is to meet her again after almost two years and so exciting with her new songs coming out soon. After a rather brief visit, I´ve headed out for an offshore assignment in the Barents sea and Nanna can now continue to fully focus on getting her songs ready for publishing. As much as I´m looking forward hearing more of her new tunes, I continue enjoying her current existing songs on Spotify.

Find Nanna on Spotify HERE and stay tuned for more!

Underwater Friends

New Caledonia, April/May 2022

The lagoon of New Caledonia is exceptional and unique in many ways. With a size of 24,000 km2, this vast lagoon is the biggest in the world. Its amazing reef system surrounds the lagoon with a 1,600 km long coral reef, the second longest barrier reef on the planet.

When adding the barrier reef, the total lagoon/reef area represents almost 40,000 km2. Despite their size, the thriving reefs of New Caledonia remain relatively unexplored. The overall marine biodiversity of New Caledonia is estimated at 15,000 species, although certain zones still remain fairly unknown.

Filled with natural beauty, containing diverse coral reefs and small coral islands, this intact ecosystem is home to a very wide range of marine life. Each time we get underwater we make new aquatic friends. Overwhelmed by the great variety of life in all forms and sizes, it almost is hard to know where to look as new stories reveal in every corner.