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 ”An insight into pure wilderness” has now been realised due to many years of work with the project FIELD STATION | NATURAE OBSERVATIO. Since 12 May the Field Station | Martin’s Eye has sent daily observations from its remote location on the island Prins Karls Forland off the west coast of Spitsbergen.

The same place as the Linnaeus’ apostle Anton Rolandsson Martin visited already in 1758 and made natural history notations in his diary from – thereof the name ”Martin’s Eye”.

As reported in a previous IK iMessenger, a new and unique autonomous micro Field Station has been developed by an international team of researchers and technical specialists under the organisation of The IK Foundation and equally assisted by a longterm financial support by LMK Foundation for Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. Early in this month this new temporarily placed Field Station on Forlandsletta was successfully erected – being an important part of the ongoing project Bridge Builder Expeditions.

In the Initial Field Report from Spitsbergen, Lars Hansen at The IK Foundation describes more about the background, chosen spot, the work and preliminary results.

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BE INVOLVED in the project FIELD STATION | NATURAE OBSERVATIO. During the autumn we will introduce a Crowd Science project, based on the collected data which the station registers in the form of pictures and sound. Among many uses to report observations, via the Field Station | Martin’s Eye, of individual specimens to GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility system. Welcome to contact IK if you are interested to take part?

Already at this stage, interested individuals and organisations are welcome to take part in the following from the Field Station:

- DAILY PICTURE – facing North – uploaded automatically in the afternoon local time via satellite from Field Station | Martin's Eye.

- WEATHER DATA & CURRENT WEATHER (updated every 60 seconds)

- ABOUT THE FIELD STATION PROJECT

- ABOUT ANTON ROLANDSSON MARTIN