SIZE postdoc Brandon Hassett traveled to the Ross Sea in Antarctica to participate in a month-long advanced training program with the US National Science Foundation. Brandon was part of a team that was selected from a highly competitive international applicant … Continued
In cooperation with the project Carbon Bridge (https://site.uit.no/carbonbridge/) Arctic SIZE has produced the semi-popular book: At the Edge. Edited by Paul, the book has 340 pages, is richly illustrated, and contains 27 chapters. At the edge is the first book where the knowledge on … Continued
During Arctic FRONTIERS conference Tobias Vonnahme presented his ideas during the Pecha Kucha night at driv with 20 slides in 20 seconds each. He presented his ideas about modelling climate change in the Arctic from the view of microalgae and some … Continued
Arctic SIZE congratulates the winners of the inaugural Mohn Prize, our close colleague, valued mentor and friend, Dr. Eddy Carmack, Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, Canada, and the wonderful team behind the Meaning of … Continued
ArcticSIZE was well represented at the Arctic Change 2017 conference in Quebec City on December 11-15 with two senior scientists (Paul Wassmann and Jørgen Berge), one post-doc (Elizaveta Ershova) and two PhD candidates (Christine Dybwad and Raphaelle Descoteaux) sharing their work. … Continued
Arctic SIZE is going dark for the next two weeks, venturing into the Arctic Ocean during the polar night to explore the ecological processes of the marine environment. Light is one of the main drivers for microbial growth. These tiny … Continued
During the side session organized by the Arctic Council Arctic SIZE presented a talk at COP23 in Bonn: How Arctic sea ice matters: what we know and need to know for adaptation. http://arctic-council.org/index.php/en/our-work2/8-news-and-events/473-cop23 In connection with this presentation Wassmann … Continued
PhD Candidate Tobias Vonnahme went to the Svalbard Science conference in Oslo, where he presented a poster about microalgae – bacteria interactions. The outcome were interesting discussions about the work in Billefjorden and the concept of mixotrophy in the Polar … Continued
Arctic SIZE organised and financed the 4th pan-Arctic Integration symposium, entitled “Towards a unifying pan-Arctic perspective of the contemporary and future Arctic Ocean”. These symposia have created the base for today’s pan-Arctic understanding, summarized in three volumes in Progress in … Continued
Last week PhD Candidate Tobias Vonnahme explored cutting-edge methods and concepts in computaional ecogenomics during a workshop in Brest, France. The usage of large Nanopore and Illumina datsets for Metagenome assemblies was discussed by bioinformatic experts around the world. Methods … Continued