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-) and Kobbefjord at Nuuk (2007-). 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.
2019.02.18 | Research news
Charlotte Sigsgaard is a physical geographer in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management at University of Copenhagen. Charlotte can celebrate 20 years anniversary with GEM this year - she first got in contact with GEM in 1999 as a GeoBasis field assistant in Zackenberg – not expecting to be involved in the same business…
2019.01.31 | Research news
Mikael Sejr is a senior scientist at the Arctic Research Centre (ARC) at Aarhus University. He has worked for Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring since 2003 when the MarineBasis programme was established in Zackenberg (Daneborg). When we asked Mikael about his most memorable fieldwork experience, he responded: “That’s a…
2019.01.15 | Positions
Two new field assistant are needed to help with the geophysical climate effect monitoring programme (GeoBasis), in Zackenberg, northeast Greenland, during summer 2019 and in the following years. As there is training connected to the position second-year students are prioritized. Read the full advertisement…