Multiproxy investigation of the last 2,000 years BP marine paleoenvironmental record along the western Spitsbergen margin by Fiorenza Torricella, Viviana Maria Gamboa Sojo, Karen Gariboldi, Nessim Douss, Maria Elena Musco, Chiara Caricchi, Renata Giulia Lucchi, Katia Carbonara, Caterina Morigi

“…A reconstruction of the last 2,000 years BP of environmental and oceanographic changes on the western margin of Spitsbergen was performed using a multidisciplinary approach including the fossil assemblages of diatoms, planktic and benthic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossils and the use of geochemistry (X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction). …”
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Seeking the Sources of Dust: Geochemical and Magnetic Studies on “Cryodust” in Glacial Cores from Southern Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Norway) by Marek Lewandowski, Monika A. Kusiak, Tomasz Werner, Adam Nawrot, Barbara Barzycka, Michał Laska, Bartłomiej Luks

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The malacostracan fauna of two Arctic fjords (west Spitsbergen): the diversity and distribution patterns of its pelagic and benthic components by Joanna Legeżyńska, Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk, Marta Gluchowska, Mateusz Ormańczyk, Monika Kędra, Jan Marcin Węsławski

“…This study examines the performance of pelagic and benthic Malacostraca in two glacial fjords of west Spitsbergen: Kongsfjorden, strongly influenced by warm Atlantic waters, and Hornsund which, because of the strong impact of the cold Sørkapp Current, has more of an Arctic character. …”
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Distribution of cold and temperate ice in glaciers on the Nordenskiold Land, Spitsbergen, from ground-based radio-echo sounding by Yu. Ya. Macheret, A. F. Glazovsky, I. I. Lavrentiev, I. O. Marchuk

“…Data of ground-based radio-echo sounding of 16 glaciers located on the Nordenskiold Land, Spitsbergen, carried out in springs of 1999, 2007 and 2010–2013, allowed defining five glaciers as of the cold thermal type while other eleven ones were polythermal glaciers. …”
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Fifty Years of Tidewater Glacier Surface Elevation and Retreat Dynamics along the South-East Coast of Spitsbergen (Svalbard Archipelago) by Jan Kavan, Guy D. Tallentire, Mihail Demidionov, Justyna Dudek, Mateusz C. Strzelecki

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Quantifying Changes in Extent and Velocity of the Hornbreen/Hambergbreen Glacial System (SW, Spitsbergen) Based on Timeseries of Multispectral Satellite Imagery by Dawid Saferna, Małgorzata Błaszczyk, Mariusz Grabiec, Bogdan Gądek

“…The HH system connects Sørkapp Land with the rest of Spitsbergen, and its disintegration will lead to the formation of a new island. …”
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Devonian-Mississippian faulting controlled by WNW-ESE-striking structural grain in Proterozoic basement rocks in Billefjorden, central Spitsbergen by Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, Gard Christophersen, Maxime Collombin, Christoffer Taule, Eirik M.B. Stokmo, Lis Allaart

“… In Billefjorden, central Spitsbergen, Devonian collapse and Carboniferous rift-related sedimentary strata were deposited unconformably over Proterozoic basement rocks displaying well developed N-S-trending Caledonian grain. …”
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Conceptual model for talus slope development in Brattegg Valley (SW Spitsbergen) based on sedimentology of debris deposits in periglacial zone by Krzysztof Senderak

“…The article presents the methodological approach and the results of the sedimentological measurements and geomorphological studies of the eight talus cones located in SW Spitsbergen. The study was conducted in the non-glaciated valley near the Stanislaw Baranowski Polar Station in Spitsbergen. …”
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Principal Component and Cluster Analysis for determining diversification of bottom morphology based on bathymetric profiles from Brepollen (Hornsund, Spitsbergen) by Mateusz Moskalik, Jarosław Tęgowski, Piotr Grabowiecki, Monika Żulichowska

“…The results and comprehensive analysis of such measurements conducted in Brepollen (Hornsund, Spitsbergen) are presented in this article. The morphological differentiation of the seafloor was determined by calculating statistical, spectral and wavelet transformation, fractal and median filtration parameters of segments of bathymetric profiles. …”
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Time-Series of Cloud-Free Sentinel-2 NDVI Data Used in Mapping the Onset of Growth of Central Spitsbergen, Svalbard by Stein Rune Karlsen, Laura Stendardi, Hans Tømmervik, Lennart Nilsen, Ingar Arntzen, Elisabeth J. Cooper

“…In this paper, the study area was the central part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, located between 77.28°N and 78.44°N. …”
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Assessment of Morphology Changes of the End Moraine of the Werenskiold Glacier (SW Spitsbergen) Using Active and Passive Remote Sensing Techniques by Tadeusz Głowacki, Damian Kasza

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Elevation-based upscaling of organic carbon stocks in High-Arctic permafrost terrain: a storage and distribution assessment for Spitsbergen, Svalbard by Niels Weiss, Samuel Faucherre, Nikos Lampiris, Robin Wojcik

“…We combine two detailed, high-resolution SOC inventories on Spitsbergen (Svalbard) with regional validation data. …”
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The First Comprehensive Biodiversity Study of Culturable Fungal Communities Inhabiting Cryoconite Holes in the Werenskiold Glacier on Spitsbergen (Svalbard Archipelago, Arctic) by Justyna Borzęcka, Jakub Suchodolski, Bartłomiej Dudek, Lena Matyaszczyk, Klaudyna Spychała, Rafał Ogórek

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Contemporary landscape transformation in a small Arctic catchment (Bratteggdalen, Svalbard) by Aleksandra Wołoszyn, Marek Kasprzak

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Temporal and spatial variability of thermal and humidity stimuli in the Hornsund area (Svalbard) by Andrzej Araźny

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Maps and Geographical Names as Tokens of National Interests by Thor Bjørn Arlov

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Mitochondrial genomes of ancient bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) from Svalbard by Joost Grond, Magdalena Płecha, Christoph Hahn, Øystein Wiig, Lutz Bachmann

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High-resolution digital outcrop model of the faults, fractures, and stratigraphy of the Agardhfjellet Formation cap rock shales at Konusdalen West, central Spitsbergen by P. Betlem, P. Betlem, T. Birchall, G. Lord, S. Oldfield, S. Oldfield, S. Oldfield, L. Nakken, L. Nakken, L. Nakken, K. Ogata, K. Senger

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Svalbard on the (Post-)Soviet Screen by Andrei Rogatchevski

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Influence of Atmospheric Circulation on Cloudiness and Cloud Types in Petuniabukta and Svalbard-Lufthavn in Summer 2016 by Leszek Kolendowicz, Marek Półrolniczak, Sebastian Kendzierski, Katarzyna Szyga-Pluta, Kamil Láska

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