Postdoctoral researcher Brandon Hassett recently traveled to Texas A&M University to work with Dr. Eli Borrego and Dr. Mike Kolomiets. Drs. Borrego and Kolomiets are among the best plant biochemical researchers in the world, who just so happen to be quite amazing at using … Continued
As part of the Science Festival in Moscow 6-8 of October 2017, a delegation from UiT and NTNU visited Moscow and participated with talks and opening of the polar night exhibition. All posters had been translated into Russian, and the … Continued
During the National Science Week (Forskningsdagene) Paul Wassmann from Arctic SIZE was asked to participate in a panel debate about the significance of fish farming. Wassmann took an ecological point of view and compared salmon biomass with that of the … Continued
Members of Arctic SIZE traveled to Drøbak to participate in a two week course in algal systematics and taxonomy. This course is one of many excellent programs offered through ForBio: Research School in Biosystematics and equips participants to conceptually understand the hierarchy of … Continued
Arctic SIZE researchers explain their research in ice-covered seas to the public in short videos. These will be integrated into the e-book that accompanies the exhibition ‘The Living Sea Ice’ at the Polar Museum in Tromsø, https://uit.no/tmu/polarmuseet.
Salty sea ice, ice algae under a microscope, a fancy imaging system and great imagery from Arctic field work attracted many school children to Arctic SIZE’s stand at this year’s Research Days at the UiT-The Arctic University of Norway campus. … Continued
Dr. Paul Wassmann recently represented UiT at the High North 17 campaign onboard the Italian vessel Alliance. Dr. Wassmann joined several other prominent members of the scientific and political community to welcome Commander Ettore Ronco and his crew to Tromso.
The last weeks Tobias Vonnahme participated in a summer school in Bergen, Norway, organized by FILAMO, and used different programs for dynamic and 1D modelling based on laboratory experiments. The aim of the summer school is to facilitate the communication … Continued
This past week, postdoc Brandon Hassett represented ArcticSIZE in Prague, CZ at the International Congress Of Protistology. Brandon presented a poster description of two novel species of sphaeroformids and a draft genome on a representative strain.
For finding out what happens to the climate gas CO2 after it is fixed by small algae and what bacteria have to do with all of this, Tobias started a test experiment in Kaldfjord near Tromsø. He put some microscopically small … Continued