See upcoming events
2022:
| Date | Topic | Speakers | ||
| 26 – 29 Aug | Arctic Fox Conference 2022 | Norwegian Polar Institute | ||
| 22 June | Change is the Constant: Future environmental policy and governance challenges in Svalbard | Bjørn Kaltenborn | ||
| 20 June | The Svalbard Treaty: From Terra Nullius to Norwegian Sovereignty | Thor Bjørn Arlov | ||
| 19-23 June | 51st International Arctic Workshop | |||
| 18-26 June | NVP Summer School | |||
| 24 Jan – 4 Feb | The history of Svalbard | Thor Bjørn Arlov | ||
| 18 Jan-1 Feb | Svalbardeminaret 2022 (Svalbard Seminar Series) | Several speakers |
2021:
| Date | Topic | Speakers |
| 1 Dec | Seminar: Fremtidens Longyearbyen – et utstillingsvindu for bærekraft? | |
| 24 Nov | PhD disputation: Polycyclic aromatic compound (PACs) in ambient air of Svalbard. Concentrations, seasonal trends, sources, andtransformation processes | Tatiana Drotikova |
| 9-11 Nov | Conference: Arctic Safety – Best practices and scientific knowledge | |
| 28 Oct | PhD trial lecture: Sustainable organic analytical chemistry, beyond being only green chemistry | Tatiana Drotikova |
| 26 Oct | Lunch seminar: Automotive Lidar for geophysical applications | Muckenhuber, et.al. |
| 15 Oct | SCOPE: The student-led conference on polar education | UNIS students |
| 29 Sep | Lunch Seminar: JOIDES Resolution broadcasting live with Peter Betlem | Peter Betlem |
| 10 Sep | PhD disputation: “Snow avalanche controls, monitoring strategies, and hazard management in Svalbard” | Holt Hancock |
| 17 Jun | PhD disputation: “Energetic electron precipitation of pulsating aurorae and their mesospheric effects” | Fasil Tesema Kebede |
| 16 Jun | PhD disputation: “Temporal constraints on reproduction and growth in a seasonal environment” | Anna Ejsmond |
| 28 May | PhD trial lecture: “Drivers of migration in insects and birds” | Anna Ejsmond |
| 28 April | PhD trial lecture: “What is turbulence, and do we understand it?” | Fasil Tesema Kebede |
| 8 Apr | PhD disputation: New insight into the Taxonomy, Biostratigraphy, and Paleoecology of Jurassic – Cretaceous Arctic foraminifera | Hanna Rósa Hjálmarsdóttir |
| 25 Mar | Webinar: Sikkerhet på tur på 90 minutter | Arctic Safey Centre, UNIS, m. flere |
| 2 Mar | PhD disputation: Pore Pressure Regimes of the Northern Barents Shelf – Implications for Fluid Flow | Thomas Birchall |
| 22 Jan | PhD disputation: “Characterising Mesoscale Fast Flow Channels in the Polar Cap Ionosphere” | Katie Herlingshaw |
| 19 Jan – 4 Feb | Svalbardseminaret 2021 (Svalbard Seminar Series) |
2020:
| Date | Topic | Speakers |
| 27 Nov | PhD trial lecture: “Carl Friedrich Gauss and his work on the geomagnetic field”. | Katie Herlingshaw |
| 12 Nov | Master thesis defense: «Aerodynamic Roughness Length of Crevassed Tidewater Glaciers from UAV Mapping» | Armin Dachauer |
| 06 Nov | PhD disputation: “Microbial eukaryotes and their functional importance in the Arctic. A Svalbardian perspective“ | Magdalena Wutkowska |
| 02 Nov | PhD disputation: “Ocean motion in the Yermak Plateau – tidal and air-ocean interactions” | Eli Anne Ersdal |
| 21-24 Sep | Kurs i isbjørnsikkerhet for lokalbefolkningen | Fred Skancke Hansen m.fl. |
| 22 Sep | PhD disputation: Short-term tundra plant-community nutrient responses to herbivory and warming | Matteo Petit Bon |
| 18 Jun | Svalbox – An interactive portal providing Svalbard’s geoscientific data | Kim Senger |
| 15 Jun | Master thesis defense: Rapid temperature rise may have triggered glacier surges all over Svalbard | Erik Schytt Holmlund |
| 27 May | Bedre værvarsel i arktiske områder |
Meteorologisk Institutt m.fl. |
| 19 May | PhD disputation: Warmer and Wetter Winters over the high-latitude North Atlantic | Siiri Wickström |
| 11 Mar | Lunch Seminar: Seismic modelling of faults; viable geometries vs seismic resolution in the subsurface | Thea Sveva Faleide, University of Oslo |
| 27 Feb | PhD disputation: Development of extension growth basins: A field based study, Svalbard, Norway. | 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 2020 (Svalbard Seminar Series) | Various |
2019:
| Date | Topic | Speakers |
| 18 Dec | PhD dissertation: Solar proton impact in the middle atmosphere | Erkka Heino |
| 2 Dec | Lunch seminar: Winter cyclones and Svalbard weather | Siiri Wickström |
| 20 Nov | PhD 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 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 defense: 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 |
| 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 |
