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Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre briefed on Arctic field work preparations at UNIS

The Norwegian Prime Minister met with students from UNIS and received a briefing on Arctic safety and the preparations needed to attend academic field work in extreme Arctic conditions.

Apply for autumn courses 2023

Apply now for UNIS autumn semester courses! The application deadline is 15 April 2023.

Extended application deadline for spring courses

Would you like to study in Svalbard in the spring? We have extended application deadline for some courses in Arctic Geophysicsand Arctic Geology. Apply now – first come, first serve!

Prestigious award to Arctic permafrost project led by UNIS

On October 14, Marius Jonassen and Hanne H. Christiansen from UNIS became the second recipients of the Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award (FP Award). The award is both a high-level recognition and a 100,000-euro grant given to a project that transforms knowledge into action to help address the impacts of climate change in the Arctic.

Extended application deadline for autumn courses

Would you like to study in Svalbard in the autumn? We have extended application deadline for some courses in Arctic Geophysics and Arctic Technology. Apply now – first come, first serve!

Apply for autumn courses 2022

Our Arctic heritage is threatened by climate change

New FRAM initiative: Research in the Arctic, for those who live there

The Fram Centre has launched five new research programs with a total budget of 250 million NOK over five years. UNIS is involved in three of the new research programs.

Introducing UArctic Chair Hanne H. Christiansen

Summer courses 2022 – Open for application

Summer fieldwork for memory books

Q & A @ C

New kids on the rock

Drilling the mid-Norwegian volcanic margin

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Refining knowledge about snow avalanches

Strengthens competence building within geosciences in polar areas

UNIS Annual Report 2020

Back when the dinosaurs were ash-stranded

Small classes, big learning opportunities 

Microfossils from the Circum-Arctic

Reconstructing glacial history to understand current climate responses

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Pore Pressure Regimes of the Northern Barents Shelf

Summer courses 2021 open for application

Permafrost climate change observation system with local and Arctic importance

Mapping glaciers with drones in Svalbard – this is how we actually do it

iEarth Centre of Excellence in Education formally opened

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Award-winning CO2 hydrate research

World Environment Day

UNIS Annual Report 2019

How to conduct field teaching with students scattered around the world?

GoNorth is a “go”

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New knowledge about sedimentary basins in Svalbard

Svalbard’s geology live

UNIS launches permafrost course

Summer/autumn courses 2020 open for application

UNIS partner in new Centre of Excellence in Education

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Drones help reveal the secrets of glacier crevasses

Gas hydrates in Svalbard

Summer/autumn courses 2019 open for application

Dialogue Café: Communication between science and Longyearbyen local community

Holocene glacier history of Svalbard: Retracing the style of (de-)glaciation

Apply now for spring courses 2019

Deglaciation of the northern Svalbard margin

Triassic development of the Norwegian Barents shelf

Summer/autumn courses 2018 open for application

Geological investigation of high-Arctic fjord-valleys

Green light for the Nansen Legacy