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The UNIS application web for spring courses 2024 is now open. Application deadline is October 15th 2023.

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Join a research project through UNISprout

UNISprout is a project designed to support the planned fieldwork of Guest Master and PhD students by offering Bachelor students the opportunity to join in as a field or lab assistant.

Check out some of the projects here:

Svalbox – SfM processing and (optionally) near town digital data acquisition
A warmer future: how warming and increased herbivore pressure affect vegetation change in the High Arctic

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Latest news:

Extended application deadline for autumn 2023

Have you ever considered spending a semester in the Arctic? Check out available courses for the autumn 2023

Svea – a window of opportunity for Unis

This fall marks 107 years since Swedish miners established Svea at the head of Van Mijenfjorden in Svalbard. From the winter 2024, research will take over and a new chapter in the history of Svea will begin. If we seize the opportunities now, Svea could become an essential showcase for UNIS.

UNIS to lead two new UArctic network projects! 

Kim Senger and Hanne H. Christiansen have received grants totalling 800,000 NOK from the Norwegian UArctic Network funding to support their collaboration projects on Arctic climate archives and on developing closer inter-university collaboration.

Two excellent papers from the UNIS geology team

On the onset of hyper-aridity in East Antarctica and the digitization of the renowned Festningen section in the outer part of Isfjorden.

Looking for more to read? Check out our news archive here

Study at UNIS

Arctic Safety Centre

Research at UNIS

Publications from our researchers

Arctic Geology

Svalbox Digital Model Database: A geoscientific window into the High Arctic

Peter Betlem Anders Dahlin Aleksandra Smyrak-Sikora Kim Senger

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Arctic Geology

Effects of glacier retreat upon glacier-groundwater coupling and biogeochemistry in Central Svalbard

Andy Hodson

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Arctic Geology

Glacier area changes in the Arctic and high latitudes using satellite remote sensing

Riko Noormets

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Arctic Technology

Integrated assessment of biological responses to pollution in wild mussels (Mytilus edulis) from subarctic and arctic areas in the Norwegian sea

Tomasz Maciej Ciesielski

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Arctic Geophysics

Interhemispheric asymmetries of neutral upwelling and ion upflow

Kjellmar Oksavik

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Arctic Geology

OP-ED: Ligger Svalbards energiframtid i jordens indre?

Kim Senger Malte Jochmann Snorre Olaussen

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Norwegian Centres for Excellence in education

BioCEED

bioCEED is one of Norway’s “Sentre for fremragende utdanning” (SFU) and has four major focus areas: Learning culture, innovative teaching, practical training and outreach. Students and teachers are working as partners, creating projects and developing the future of biology education in a comfortable learning environment for everyone.

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iEarth

iEarth is a part of the centre of excellence and is a student-focused and innovative learning environment that empowers tomorrow’s geoscience students to meet complex societal challenges.We are using active learning methods and address current issues in an integrated national geoscience education with a global perspective.

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Other projects

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360° Virtual Field Guides

FieldPass are trying to improve how students can learn about fieldwork and how practical skills and general competences achieved through fieldwork can be assessed. One way to achieve this is through the use of Virtual Field Guides (VFG’s).

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Iwin (Isfjorden weather information network)

Providing weather data from several stations in the area, the Isfjorden weather information network aims at improving our understanding of local atmospheric processes and ultimately weather forecasts for the region itself.

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Arctic offshore and coastal engineering in changing climate

The Arctic offshore and coastal engineering in changing climate-project develops world-class research and education through long-term relations of UNIS with strong academic groups from Canada, Russia and USA.