The remote sensing service will represent SIOS at the 2^nd GEO Data Providers workshop in Florence, Italy on 20th to 21st April 2017.

This September the SIOS Knowledge Centre will be offering a workshop on how to access and process Copernicus satellite data, equipping researchers with the basic skills they need to understand and use multi-spectral satellite data for monitoring snow and ice on Svalbard.

With the new year also our new logistics officer arrived and finally completed the SIOS Knowledge Centre team. Inger Jennings - half Norwegian, half English - finished school in Oslo before moving to the UK to study. She holds a bachelor in Environmental Science and a master in Marine Environmental Protection.

ENVRIplus* offers opportunities for free-of-charge transnational access (TNA) for selected research groups and companies to a number of multi-disciplinary test platforms wishing to conduct research or test instruments for cross-disciplinary topics within the environmental domains: atmosphere, biosphere, marine, and solid earth.

Many of the activities within the SIOS community will be organised through working groups. On November 15-16, the SIOS Data Management System (SDMS) Working Group was the first to meet at the SIOS Knowledge Centre in Longyearbyen (video streaming was arranged for those who could not be present). Eight partners that have committed resources to the development of SIOS data management attended the meeting and officially established the working group.