Finally! We are happy to announce that the article on a conceptual modelling toolkit for the pan-Arctic was published in Progress in Oceanography 189, 102455 in late 2020. This article is the result of a productive, inspiring, intense and fun … Continued
Arctic SIZE PhD student Raphaelle Descoteaux won the regional competition of the Researcher Grand Prix 2020 in Tromsø yesterday! Congratulations, Raphaelle, we are so happy for and proud of you! Along with 9 other PhD students from UiT, Raphaelle presented her … Continued
New research explores how lower-latitude oceans drive complex changes in the Arctic Ocean, pushing the region into a new reality distinct from the 20th century norm. The University of Alaska Fairbanks and Finnish Meteorological Institute led the international effort, which … Continued
The ArcticSIZE team is reorganizing its way of working in the face of the corona virus threat. Thankfully, we are all still healthy and eager to continue with our science. So, as with so many around the world, this is … Continued
While we all figure out how the physical, chemical and biological oceanography, let alone the system ecology of the Arctic Ocean is functioning, climate change is over us. Nowhere are the changes bigger than in the Arctic and our limited … Continued
Arctic SIZE held their annual meeting with international participation by representatives from the UK’s Changing Arctic Ocean program. During two very interesting days of presentations and discussion the group got to appreciate the diversity and novelty of the many emerging … Continued
After years of preparation, the multi-disciplinary central Arctic observatory MOSAiC https://www.mosaic-expedition.org/ is underway! 600 scientists from 19 nations follow Nansen & his team’s footsteps to jointly improve our understanding of the Arctic Climate and Ecosystem and its ties to lower latitudes. Fife … Continued
SIZE will be representing at the Ocean Sciences meeting in San Diego, California in February 2020. Brandon Hassett was awarded a session with co-chairs Xuefeng Peng of the University of California Santa Barbara and Gaetan Burgaud of the University of … Continued
ArcticSIZE was well represented at the Gordon Research Conference – Polar Marine Science in Barga, Italy. Two PhD, one post-doc and two senior scientists from the group attended. Marit Reigstad delivered a keynote talk on “The Atlantic Inflow into the … Continued
On February 19 Paul Wassmann gave the talk “Tools for pan-Arctic integration: the case for conceptual models” at the Revelle Conference Room of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Conceptual models allow to go from 1) creating testable hypotheses, 2) to plan and then modify field campaigns, to 3) construct models … Continued