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.
2019.07.17 | 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…
2019.07.05 | Positions
Asiaq Greenland Survey announces a permanent position for an atmospheric researcher and program manager - this includes working with GEM and the main monitoring sites in amazing Greenland. Deadline August 1, 2019. See full announcement below, or use this link: https://zurl.co/RriN Atmospheric…
2019.06.28 | Research news
The GEM Report Annual report Cards are now available online. The long term monitoring is fundamental for detecting, analysing and understanding ecosystem changes and in this edition of the GEM Annual Report Cards, we present aspects of change of the rather special year of 2018, a long with stories of methodological…