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.
2020.02.17 | Research news
This month’s GEM scientist of the month Torkel Gissel Nielsen has been working for the MarineBasis program in Disko Bay off Qeqertarsuaq since 2018. Through monitoring of physical, chemical and biological parameters he studies the effects of climate change on the marine ecosystem, aiming at a better understanding on how the marine pelagic…
2020.01.23 | Research news
The Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring programme can celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2020. One of the people that has been involved in GEM since the beginning is Torben Røjle Christensen who is also the Scientific leader of GEM. We have asked Torben to dig deep into his memories and tell us about his Arctic life story.
2019.11.28 | Research news
Arctic by chance – this month we interviewed Andreas Westergaard-Nielsen from University of Copenhagen and how remote sensing and satellite imagery feeds the bigger picture