Last saturday Arctic SIZE was represented at Framsenteret. During Fritt Fram different research topics are easily explained to children and grown ups. With the help of Arctic SIZE PhD student Tobias Vonnahme and Sens2Change PhD student Morgan Bender, Ann Eileen … Continued
Last week Arctic SIZE PhD students Ulrike Dietrich and Tobias Vonnahme hosted a session about bridging disciplines in the seasonal ice zone during the 9th YOUMARES Conference in Oldenburg, Germany. The session aimed to bring young scientists from different disciplines … Continued
Arctic SIZE’s Paul Wassmann participated in the Sentinel Nord annual meeting 2018 in Quebec, Canada on the plenary panel for International Research Collaboration. The panel was chaired by directeur général, Sentinelle Nord, Martin Fortier. In addition, the panel participants consisted of (picture below): … Continued
Arctic SIZE’s Living Ice exhibition, launched in 2017 in collaboration with the Polar Museum, graphic designer Ola Reibo, Ann Eileen Lennert, and Jørgen Berge, has now moved on and into the huge hall of the new Fram Center. Through additional … Continued
Arctic SIZE researcher Rolf Gradinger takes some Arctic chill to his German home village. Amidst vineyards in an all-time hottest summer, he has an easy time convincing the locals that the Arctic has a role to play in keeping Earth’s … Continued
Last week SIZE PhD Candidates Ulrike Dietrich, Christine Dybwad and Tobias Vonnahme went for their second part of the field campaign in Billefjorden on Svalbard. Together with Josef Elster from the Centre of Polar Ecology in the Czech Republic, they … Continued
The world’s polar scientists converged in Davos, Switerland this past week to strategically plan collaborations, present their findings, and optimize research efforts. The majority of the core SIZE working group was present throughout the conference and spent the week presenting … Continued
With rector Anne Husebekk at the helm, an expert team from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and The University Center in Svalbard, Arctic SIZE scientist Paul Wassmann acted as the chief scientist at this year’s Outreach Cruise. Invited participants … Continued
The ArcticSIZE group held its annual meeting in Tromsø on June 5-6, 2018. The meeting brought together the early career scientists, professors and adjunct professors associated with the project. Since the first ArcticSIZE meeting, a year ago, there has been … Continued
Ulrike Dietrich and Tobias Vonnahme presented their work on heterotrophic algae and EPS (“slime”) in the Arctic during the Polar Microbes Symposium near Helsinki. The workshop was focussing on the use of omics and novel methods in the world of … Continued