The EU H2020 funded INTERACT (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic) opens a call for research groups to apply for Transnational Access to 43 research stations across the Arctic and northern alpine and forest areas in Europe, Russia and North-America.

A call from The Ocean Training Partnership offers the opportunity for Principal Investigators leading or involved in research cruises to receive funding to fill spare berth(s), receive help with their sea-going work, pass on their knowledge to the next generation, and contribute to capacity building in developing countries.

We are happy to announce that Shridhar Jawak will join our team as new remote sensing officer. He obtained his PhD in Geoinformatics, focusing on applications of very high-resolution satellite remote sensing data in the cryosphere.

In beginning of August, Bo Andersen, former director of the Norwegian Space Centre (NSC), joined our team at the Knowledge Centre to share his extensive experience and knowledge about science in Svalbard.

Negribreen, one of the largest glaciers in Svalbard, is currently surging with maximum speeds reaching 22 metres per in July 2017. That is an acceleration to about 200 times the normal flow velocity of the glacier!