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).
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!
Fate of copepods in a warming Arctic dependent on the algae season
14 November 2019
The duration of the productive season is crucial for the Arctic copepod Calanus glacialis to have higher success than its Atlantic sibling C. finmarchicus in a changing Arctic, concludes PhD candidate Maja Hatlebakk in her doctoral thesis. Hatlebakk will defend her thesis on Wednesday 20 November at UNIS.
Marine drones on Svalbard
11 November 2019
Mini-research ship lands safely in Longyearbyen after two month drift west of Svalbard.
Atlantification of the marine ecosystem in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard
8 October 2019
Climate warming is rapidly altering the physical marine environment in fjords on the west coast of Svalbard towards a more temperate state. Reductions in sea ice cover and increased ocean temperatures are evident, resulting in changes of ice-associated and pelagic ecosystems.
Apply now for spring courses 2020
9 September 2019
Application is now open for UNIS spring courses. The application deadline is 15 October 2019.
About cod, the climate, polar cod and benthic animals
6 September 2019
In July 1873 some nets were put out by whalers in Raudfjorden in Svalbard, to obtain food. They had expected to catch Arctic char, but ended up filling the nets with cod.