World Oceans Day: The Nansen Legacy
8 June 2020
June 8 is World Oceans Day and in commemoration of this we focus on the Nansen Legacy project and UNIS activities within the project in 2019.
UNIS Annual Report 2019
27 May 2020
In 2019, 743 students spent shorter or longer periods at UNIS, including both course students and guest master’s students. 50% of the students came from programmes of study at Norwegian universities, the rest from international universities.
Changing low pressure tracks in the high Arctic in winter
14 May 2020
Siiri Wickström has studied the regional changes in the atmospheric flow pattern in the high latitude North Atlantic and their impacts locally over Svalbard. The ongoing climate change is amplified at the high latitudes and Svalbard is a hotspot of warming, especially in the winters, Wickström concludes in her PhD thesis, which she will defend digitally on 19 May 2020.
Apply for autumn courses 2020
26 February 2020
Apply now for UNIS autumn semester courses! The application deadline is 15 April 2020.
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.
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.