See upcoming events
2020:
| Date and time | Topic | Speakers |
| 11 Mar | Lunch Seminar: Seismic modelling of faults; viable geometries vs seismic resolution in the subsurface | Thea Sveva Faleide, University of Oslo |
| 4 Mar | Lunch Seminar: With the “Nautilus” towards the North Pole in 1931 | Dag Nævestad, maritime archeologist |
| 27 Feb | PhD dissertation: Development of extension growth basins: A field based study, Svalbard, Norway. | Aleksandra Smyrak-Sikora |
| 26 Feb | PhD trial lecture: The interplay between tectonics and sedimentation during the evolution of foreland basins | Aleksandra Smyrak-Sikora |
| 26 Feb | Lunch seminar: How far can we go with Immersive Virtual Reality using Mosis Lab? (PDF) |
Rafael Kenji Horota and Pedro Rossa (Unisinos University, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil) |
| 12 Feb | Lunch seminar: Understanding the Role and Significance of Fjord Sediments in the Global Carbon Cycle (PDF) |
Craig Smeaton, University of St. Andrews |
| 9 Feb | Svalbardtraktaten 100 år! Sysselmannen på Svalbard, Svalbard Museum og UNIS markerer jubileet med foredrag, mandskorsang og traktatkake. |
Kjerstin Askholt, Thor K. Sættem, Per Kyrre Reymert, Thor Bjørn Arlov, Kristian Jervell. |
| 15 – 28 Jan | Svalbardseminaret | Various |
2019:
| Date and time | Topic | Speakers |
| 18 Dec | PhD trial lecture and dissertation: Solar proton impact in the middle atmosphere | Erkka Heino |
| 2 Dec | Lunch seminar: Winter cyclones and Svalbard weather | Siiri Wickström |
| 20 Nov | PhD trial lecture and dissertation: New insights into Calanus glacialis and C. finmarchicus distributions, life histories and physiology in high-latitude seas | Maja Hatlebakk |
| 23 Sep | Shipping in the Arctic – where is it headed? | Stein Sandven, Arild Moe, Julia Olsen |
| 26 June | Lunch seminar: The Eurekan deformation in the Arctic – architecture and kinematics of a strange fold belt | Karsten Piepjohn |
| 8 June | Arctic Frontiers Open – Smart Arctic – det nye Longyearbyen? | |
| 23 May | Lunch seminar: A story as clear as mud…how climate history is recorded in a Svalbard glacial lake | Professor Mike Retelle |
| 16 May | Lunch seminar: Hyperspectral Imagers for Drones and Micro Satellites | Fred Sigernes |
| 13–15 May | Arctic Safety Conference: Managing risks in a changing Arctic | Stein P. Aasheim, Ilan Kelman + + |
| 9 May | Lunch seminar: Permafrost research across the Canadian north | Ullrich Neuman |
| 8 May | MATLAB for Analyzing and Visualizing Geospatial Data Read more and register here |
Loren Shure |
| 23 Apr | BioCEED seminar: Flipped classrooms and team-based learning | Pernille B. Eidesen |
| 23 Apr | Celebration of UNIS’ first Excellent Teaching Practitioner, Pernille B. Eidesen | |
| 29 Mar | PhD trial lecture and disputation: Ecophysiological responses of sea ice algae and phytoplankton to a changing Arctic | Ane Cecilie Kvernvik |
| 29 Mar | Lunch seminar: Drone operations at UNIS |
Sara Cohen, Marius Jonassen, Marcos Porcires, Sebastian Sikora |
| 28 Mar | Master thesis presentation: The Advent River system, central Svalbard – A high-resolution analysis of sediment flux from a dynamic arctic river mouth |
Martijn Rodenburg |
| 28 Mar | Lunch seminar: Arctic Clouds – ACLOUD campaign around Svalbard | Prof. Susanne Crewell |
| 19 Mar | Open meeting: Framtidens klima: Hva kan vi lære av Svalbardsamfunnet? | Jan-Gunnar Winther, Kjerstin Askholt, ++ |
| 18 Mar | Lunch seminar: Cold origin of land plants | Jakub Dan Zarsky |
| 15 Mar | Lunch seminar: The Lemming cycle: Myth, facts and population drivers | Thomas Bjørnboe G. Berg |
| 7 Mar | Lunch seminar: The Importance of Pore Pressure | Tom Birchall |
| 4 Mar | Lunch seminar: Internal waves as nutrient pump in the ocean | John Grue, UiO |
| 18–28 Feb | Open afternoon course: The Stormy Sun and the Northern Lights | Pål Brekke |
| 21 Feb | Lunch seminar: Confirming the role of sea-ice brines in carbon sequestration: A cold, dark journey | Lisa A. Miller, Centre for Ocean Climate Chemistry, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada |
| 20 Feb | PhD disputation: Drivers of the marine CO2 system in the High Arctic – from the deep basins to the shallow fjords | Ylva Ericson |
| 19 Feb | PhD trial lecture: Organic carbon in the Arctic Ocean and potential climatic feedbacks | Ylva Ericson |
| 4 Feb | Framtidens klima på Svalbard og i Longyearbyen (folkemøte) Se video fra møtet her |
Various |
| 21 Jan–1 Feb | Open afternoon course: The History of Svalbard | Thor Bjørn Arlov |
| 15–29 Jan 2019 | Svalbardseminaret (Svalbard Seminar Series) – See presentations on SlideShare | Various |
| 20 Jan 2019 | Longyearbyen survival workshop for students | The Student Counselling Centre, Tromsø |
| 14–18 Jan 2019 | SIOS Polar Night Week | |
| 7 Jan 2019 | Spring semester opening |
