The third call for access to SIOS infrastructure opened 3rd July 2019 and closed 30th September 2019 (SIOS access call 2019). 29 applications were submitted, which is nearly three times as many as in the two previous calls. After the scientific evaluation and feasibility assessment it was decided that SIOS could support 14 of the proposed projects.
The projects cover a broad range of topics within the fields of atmospheric physics, solid earth, snow, terrestrial and marine biology, glaciology, hydrology and permafrost. Most projects have requested physical access to RI, but there is one virtual access project on the list also.
The PI for each project was invited to attend SIOS Polar Night Week to present their plans, either in the form of an oral presentation or as a poster.
The final approved list of participants is shown in table 1 below. The projects will all conduct fieldwork in 2020 and must submit a short update on their project to SIOS by 1 October 2020.
UPDATE: Due to COVID-19 and the associated travel restrictions most of the projects in table 1 have to be postponed until 2021.
Further information on postponed projects will follow.
Project title | PI | Institution | Facility visited | Allocated funding (NOK) | Project update |
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Extension of seismic monitoring network in Hornsund | Mariusz Majdański | Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences | Polish Polar Station |
138 000 |
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An Integrated Network to measure Seasonal Processes in Arctic habitats via novel Experiments | Catherine Larose | Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France | Dirigibile Italia / AWIPEV |
240 600 |
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The role of electric phenomena in snow-air interactions in the Arctic | Ekaterina Tkachenko | Institute of Geological Science, National Academy of Science of Ukraine | AWIPEV |
15 000 |
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Radar Monitoring of Calving at Hansbreen | William Harcourt | School of Physics and Astronomy University of St Andrews |
Polish Polar Station and UNIS |
84 000 |
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Near real-time observations of snow water equivalent for SIOS on Svalbard | Julia Boike | Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research | N/A (Virtual access) |
200 000 |
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Capturing Biogeochemical Processes in Proglacial Soil During the Freezing Period | Pacifica Sommers | University of Colorado Boulder | Sverdrup |
381 200 |
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Glaciological and microbiological observations of the Lomonosovfonna firn aquifer | Ward van Pelt | Department of Earth Sciences Uppsala University |
NPI in Longyearbyen |
95 000 |
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State of Revvatnet hydrodynamics in the year 2020 | Tomasz Wawrzyniak | Department of Polar and Marine Research, Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences | Polish Polar Station and UNIS |
193 200 |
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NY-alesund TurbulencE Fiber-Optic eXperiment | Christoph Thomas | Micrometeorology Group, University of Bayreuth | AWIPEV |
73 535 |
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Microbial carbon turnover and greenhouse gas formation from permafrost soils revealed by 14CO2 analysis | Jan Olaf Melchert | Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne | AWIPEV |
64 000 |
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Environmental Bloom Controls of Blooms and Adaptive Mechanisms in Svalbard | Clara Jule Marie Hoppe | Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtzcenter for Polar and Marine Research | AWIPEV |
117 750 |
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Effects of big herbivores on the functioning of decomposers and primary producers in High Arctic tundra | Olga Gavrichkova | Institute of Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Research Council of Italy | Dirigibile Italia |
145 700 |
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Lunar AOD Intercomparison Campaign | Robert Stone | Science and Technology Corporation-Boulder | Dirigibile Italia |
123 000 |
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De-icing of Arctic Coasts: Critical or new opportunities for marine biodiversity and Ecosystem Services? | Janne Elin Søreide | University Centre in Svalbard | UNIS and drones from NORCE |
402 000 |
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