Research Infrastructure Coordination Committee (RICC)

The RICC directive is to

  • Organise the operational relations between the SIOS activity programme and the partner facilities.

The RICC work programme for 2024

  • Contribute to the optimisation call and provide ongoing support to successful applicants.
  • Contribute to the Access Call and provide ongoing support to successful applicants.
  • Work towards better coordination of logistical services for SIOS members and strengthen cross-institutional collaboration on safety training for fieldwork in Svalbard via information gathering, meetings, workshops and shared training.
  • Enhance the Observation Facility Catalogue - by updating all data but also sharing data between platforms.

Associated task forces

  • Safety and Logistics Task Force

Key achievements in 2023

  • 2 Access Calls: 12 successful applications, working with NORCE (Dornier), UiB (ocean glider), Ny-Ålesund Zeppelin, Sverdrup, Dirigible, AWIPEV and Longyearbyen Norwegian Polar Institute.
  • Supported Optimisation Call evaluation, and successful projects.
  • Supported Innovation Award evaluation.
  • 5 completed Access projects.
  • Logistical cooperation between SIOS member institutions.
  • Organised a successful workshop on Safety and Logistics (part I).
  • Information campaign for the Observation Facility Catalogue.

News from RICC

RICC had 3 online meetings and 2 hybrid meetings in 2023. The hybrid meetings formed part of Polar Night Week 2023 (January) and the Working Group Days in Lillestrøm, Norway, in September 2023. Members of RICC facilitated the first SIOS workshop on Safety and Logistics at MET Norway in October 2023.

RICC Chair

  • Verena Mohaupt - Alfred Wegener Institute

RICC Co-chair

  • Archana Singh - National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research

RICC members

  • Martin Ludvigsen - NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Hyoung Geun Lee - Korea Polar Research Institute
  • Kjetil Stiansen - Norwegian Meteorological Institute
  • Kolbjørn Blix - Andøya Space
  • Anna Maria Dichiarante - NORSAR
  • Ilker Fer - University of Bergen
  • Benedicte Ferré - UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  • Stefania Gilardoni - National Research Council of Italy
  • Piotr Głowacki - Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Ove Hermansen - NILU
  • Dongmin JIN - Korea Polar Research Institute
  • Andreas Köhler - NORSAR
  • Jean-Sébastien L'Heureux - The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
  • Elzbieta Lepkowska - University of Silesia, Poland
  • Sabine Marty - Norwegian Institute for Water Research
  • Mauro Mazzola - National Research Council of Italy
  • Øyvind Mikkelsen - NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Hiroshi Miyaoka - National Institute for Polar Research
  • Verena Mohaupt - Alfred Wegener Institute
  • Arnt Rennan - Norwegian Polar Institute
  • Wlodzimierz Sielski - Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Archana Singh - National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research
  • Fred Skancke Hansen - The University Centre in Svalbard
  • Katarzyna Stachniak - University of Silesia, Poland
  • Kai Sørensen - Norwegian Institute for Water Research