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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

UNIS seeks new director

Ellingsen to resign in December

Here are our excellent teaching practitioners

Algae – the foundation of life

Drivers of the marine CO2 system in the High Arctic – from the deep basins to the shallow fjords

Funding for new high-arctic, interdisciplinary field laboratory

Nybyen student housing evacuated

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

Understanding better fundamental mechanisms of rock fracture by blasting

Queen Sonja presented a personal Royal gift

Royal visit to UNIS

Green light for the Nansen Legacy

Effects of sea ice on Arctic shrub growth: The importance of biotic interactions

Aurora forecast in 3D!

Glacier dynamics in Svalbard fjords

Heating and vertical winds in dayside Aurora

Zooplankton migration patterns in the Polar night

Avalanche in Longyearbyen 21 February 2017

Internal investigation of boat incident concluded

Incident with damaged UNIS vessel

Research and education strategy for Svalbard underway