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UNIS to lead two new UArctic network projects! 

Kim Senger and Hanne H. Christiansen have received grants totalling 800,000 NOK from the Norwegian UArctic Network funding to support their collaboration projects on Arctic climate archives and on developing closer inter-university collaboration.

Pool of science

It was neither a new tourist venture nor the jacuzzi of MS Nordstjernen that drifted on shore. The pool on the ice below SSU was a student project in Arctic technology led by Prof. Alexey Marchenko.

The new UNIS boat is baptized

On World’s Ocean Day 8 June, UNIS’ new research boat, Hanna Resvoll, was baptized in Longyearbyen. The boat is named after the first female researcher on Svalbard, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Norway’s first environmentalist.

NASA Rocket to Measure Earth’s Life-Supporting Secret: A Weak Electric Field

Why does Earth support life, while Venus and Mars – and for all we know, any other planet in the universe – do not?

Svalbard will be a showcase for renewable energy solutions in the Arctic

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.

New APECS Executive Director

Introducing the UArctic Chair Roland Kallenborn

Introducing UArctic Chair Hanne H. Christiansen

New UNIS weather station at Fritham

Toxic atmospheric Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds measured in Svalbard

Collaboration with USN

Arctic Mass Rescue Operation shows good cooperation in the North

Refining knowledge about snow avalanches

Strengthens competence building within geosciences in polar areas

Digital learning arena for Arctic biology

Pulsating aurora can lead to depletion of the ozone layer

UNIS Annual Report 2020

Climate change “squeezing” Arctic animals and plants: new circumpolar report

Polar bear conflicts in Svalbard – how dangerous are our Arctic icons?  

Microfossils from the Circum-Arctic

Arctic Safety special issue out now

Pore Pressure Regimes of the Northern Barents Shelf

A Space Hurricane Observed for the First Time

Fast Flow Channels in the Polar Cap Ionosphere

Digital teaching at UNIS 18 January – 1 February

RCN grants 12 million to Arctic Safety Centre project

UNIS will start up again with courses from January 2021

Understanding the roles of microbial eukaryotes in the High Arctic ecosystems

Tides and weather affect transport of warm water to the Arctic

iEarth Centre of Excellence in Education formally opened

Herbivores and a warming climate affect tundra plant community nutrient levels

Avalanche accident report published

UNIS Annual Report 2019

Changing low pressure tracks in the high Arctic in winter

UNIS cancels all courses in 2020

UNIS will gradually open from 27 April 2020

Summer courses cancelled

UNIS remains closed through 13 April 2020

Measures implemented by UNIS

Cancellation of spring courses yet to start

UNIS closes down 13-26 March 2020

Coronavirus information

GoNorth is a “go”

New knowledge about sedimentary basins in Svalbard

The Svalbard Treaty 100 years

Solar proton impact in the middle atmosphere

UNIS partner in new Centre of Excellence in Education

Jøran Moen appointed new director of UNIS

Funding for extra positions within renewable energy

Fate of copepods in a warming Arctic dependent on the algae season

One million NOK to the Arctic Safety Centre