Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) is an integrated monitoring and long-term research programme on ecosystems and climate change effects and feedbacks in the Arctic. Since 1995 the programme has established a coherent and integrated understanding of the functioning of ecosystems in a highly variable climate, which is based upon a comprehensive, long-term inter-disciplinary data collection carried out by Danish and Greenlandic monitoring and research institutions.
The GEM Programme put around 75 scientists in the field annually to collect data on ecosystem and climate change in Greenland. The data base currently covers data from monitoring programmes from Zackenberg (1995-), Kobbefjord at Nuuk (2007-) and Disko (2017-). The well over 1000 parameters are freely available via the GEM Database and used by GEM participants and external scientists to produce scientific papers, scientific assessments, advisory reports, etc.
2019.09.26 | Research news
The SOTM in September is one of the most experienced GEM scientists in the program, who has been involved in GEM almost since the beginning. Niels Martin Schmidt has now worked for GEM in more than 20 years, and has steadily changed his focus from research on small, collared lemmings to large musk oxen.
2019.08.23 | Research news
The GEM Scientist of the month in August is Daniel Binder from Austria. Daniel works for the GlacioBasis programme in Zackenberg and Disko, and is affiliated partly with the Glaciology and Climate Department at GEUS, and partly with the Climate Research Section of the Austrian weather service (www.zamg.ac.at). Daniels…
2019.07.17 | Research news
Thomas Juul-Pedersen represents GEM’s scientist of the month for July 2019, working as the manager of the MarineBasis program in Nuuk, as well as for several years in Zackenberg. Thomas focuses on the coastal ecosystems, fjords systems, and the interaction between glacier-fjord-ocean, as well as energy and carbon cycling on the continental…