Exploring the explorers: studying the mood, mental health, cognition and the lived experience of extreme environments in a small isolated team confined to an Arctic research station

• Main Author: Temp, Anna Gesine Marie
• Other Authors: Bak, Thomas, Lee, Billy
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; isolation and confinement; Antarctica; extreme environments; sleep disturbance; depression; anxiety; social training; interpersonal stressors; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Svalbard; Hornsund; Antarc*; polar night
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31102

Background: The human ability to adapt to extreme environments is fascinating. Research into this adaptation has been lacking in Arctic isolated teams because it has concentrated on Antarctic teams. The hazards of the poles often confine the researchers indoors with their colleagues, reducing their...