Lize-Marié van der Watt and Pablo Fontana kicking off the events fika-style. Photo: Kati Lindström
Most researchers do no not go to Antarctica to study human activities. Yet there is much to study - and that is exactly what a group of KTH researchers is going to do. Just after Christmas, they will embark on a cross-disciplinary expedition, called CHAQ 2020, to the historical remains of the first Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-1903 on the Antarctic Peninsula, along with other researchers from Argentina and Sweden. In October, they launched the final intense preparation period, heralded by the visit of Pablo Fontana, the expedition leader from the Argentine Antarctic Institute (IAA) for joint field work in Swedish museums and archival collections on Nordenskjöld’s expedition, and last but not least, a traditional Swedish fika (with an Antarctic touch) in the kitchen of the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment.
