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30. July 2024

Welcome to a new semester at UNIS, Autumn 2024

We are excited to welcome each of you as you begin your studies on August 5th 2024.

14. February 2024

Utlysning: Jan Christensens legat

Husk søknadsfrist 20. april 2024

11. January 2024

Collaboration in Svalbard

OsloMet has entered into collaboration with the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS).

10. January 2024

Svalbardseminaret 2024

The annual seminar series Svalbardseminaret starts on Tuesday 16 January and runs twice a week until 30 January. Note that all lectures are only given in Norwegian.

3. January 2024

Welcome to a new semester at UNIS

We are excited to welcome each of you as you begin your studies on January 8th.

22. December 2023

Twilight effect from a rocket?

Watch the video here

5. December 2023

30 years as a leading polar research institution

A recent analysis of publication trends in Arctic research (Aksnes et al., 2023) confirms that the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) has established itself as a leading polar research institution after 30 years of engagement in the north.

19. October 2023

Hanna Resvoll to participate in oil spill preparedness

Last week, the research vessel Hanna Resvoll and crew participated in a comprehensive exercise in Svalbard after obtaining oil spill response certification.

17. October 2023

Imaging geological complexity to better understand fluid flow in the subsurface

Doctoral candidate Peter Betlem at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "De-risking top seal integrity - Imaging heterogeneity across shale-dominated cap rock sequences" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

26. June 2023

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.

27. April 2023

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.

9. June 2022

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.

6. May 2022

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?

15. March 2022

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

21. February 2022

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.