Projects

30 September 2020

30 years ago, there was a large coastal study in Svalbard. Earlier this month marine biologists from UNIS revisited some of those old study locations in eastern Svalbard to see whether changes have occurred due to climate warming. Here is a report of their fieldwork.

10 August 2020

Describing who eats who is important to understand how nutrition and energy move between species in marine ecosystems. Today, the field of research is flourishing like never before thanks to new technology and more advanced methods. These allow us to uncover hitherto unknown connections that occasionally shake up known paradigms in ecology.

9 July 2020

What are those weird things in Bjørndalen?
The Arctic Biology Department at UNIS has co-located many research and education projects in Bjørndalen with the aim of building a “field laboratory”.