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.
2020.07.31 | Research news
With the 25-year anniversary of GEM coming up, we wanted to get back to the roots and present Hans Meltofte, who is one of the founding fathers of the monitoring programme, now known as the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring programme. In this interview by Maria Scheel, Hans talks about the development of the monitoring programme and the…
2020.06.22 | Research news
While the field season finally started for most GEM Basisprogrammes, the GEM secretariat has taken over the ‘Scientist of the Month’ for June, featuring Marie and Elmer who share the work in the GEM secretariat.
2020.05.27 | Research news
For the start of the summer, we present you the GEM scientist of the month May 2020: Melissa J. Murphy. She recently moved from the UK to Copenhagen, to persue a postdoc position at Copenhagen University. As a geochemist at CENPERM, she researches how weathering processes affect CO2 fluxes in the Arctic. Despite not being a GEM member herself, we…