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Utlysning: Jan Christensens legat 2026

Svalbardseminaret 2026

Welcome to a new semester at UNIS

Welcome to a new semester at UNIS Autumn 2025

Trial lecture and disputation: Snorre Flo

Svalbardseminaret 2025

Welcome to a new semester at UNIS

Welcome to a new semester at UNIS, Autumn 2024

Collaboration in Svalbard

Svalbardseminaret 2024

Welcome to a new semester at UNIS

Twilight effect from a rocket?

30 years as a leading polar research institution

Hanna Resvoll to participate in oil spill preparedness

Imaging geological complexity to better understand fluid flow in the subsurface

UNIS to lead two new UArctic network projects! 

Pool of science

The new UNIS boat is baptized

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

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

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

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

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