Summer/autumn courses 2020 open for application
21 January 2020
Apply now for our summer semester courses! The application deadline is 15 February 2020.
Ice in sight!
20 January 2020
We are on a polar night cruise and measurements we have taken show that both Isfjorden and Kongsfjorden are almost five degrees colder now in 2020 than it was at the same time in 2017, and the fjords are simply freezing around us!
We measure the temperature of Isfjorden
17 December 2019
We have been out again to take measurements in Isfjorden, this time with our good colleagues from the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute (MMBI).
Solar proton impact in the middle atmosphere
13 December 2019
PhD candidate Erkka Heino has studied the spatial impact of solar proton events in the Earth’s atmosphere. His research shows that current proton forcing in climate models significantly overestimates the impact area of solar proton events. Heino will defend his thesis on Wednesday 18 December at UNIS.
Extended application deadline – Bachelor and Master/PhD courses spring 2020
8 November 2018
Would you like to study in Svalbard next spring? We have extended application deadline for some courses in Arctic Biology, Arctic Geophysics, and Arctic Technology. Apply now – first come, first serve!
Heavy rainfall events in Svalbard
23 October 2019
In a master’s thesis recently completed at the University of Oslo and the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS), Ola Aashamar has studied how well strong precipitation events at Svalbard are represented in the weather model AROME-Arctic.
Apply now for spring courses 2020
9 September 2019
Application is now open for UNIS spring courses. The application deadline is 15 October 2019.
Drones help reveal the secrets of glacier crevasses
26 April 2019
Many of the glaciers in Svalbard are heavily crevassed. A multidisciplinary research group is now using drones to create high-resolution maps of glacier surfaces to study how crevasses influence the rate of heat exchange with the atmosphere.
Cold, but not cold enough!
22 March 2019
The frost smoke has been hovering above Adventfjorden the past few weeks, but still the fjord is without an ice cover. So what is the sea temperature now?