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PNW 2022: Registration is now open!
The fourth Polar Night Week, the annual gathering of the SIOS community, will take place 24-28 January 2022. The tentative programme is published and the registration form is now open!
Next SIOS webinar: Radar systems!
Join us on Friday 10:00 - 11:15 to learn more about radar systems and their application Svalbard
A truly interdisciplinary approach in action
The InnovateGLOF project had the goal to study the 2021 drainage of Setevatnet, a glacier damned lake near Ny-Ålesund, and learn more about the lake formation and its freshwater ecosystem, the mechanisms leading to the sudden drainage, the impact on the glacier and the effect this freshwater pulse has on the fjord.
Real-time access to snow data from Svalbard glaciers
SnowLive is a collaboration between the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Polar Institute that aims to provide snow and weather information from remote and challenging places such as glaciers or high elevations using wireless sensor network and off-the-shelf sensors.
Measuring the impact of grazers on Arctic tundra
The GrazeAct project studies the effect of reindeer grazing on the functioning of the main players of the ecosystem carbon balance, vegetation and microbial community. The experiment was performed in plots excluded from grazing of the Svalbard reindeer and in the surrounded grazed areas of the village of Ny-Ålesund and involved competences in the field of plant biology, botany and soil science.
