This years’ student forum started off with a short bus journey from Tromsø to the picturesque Malangen Brygger Resort, which is set on the Malangen Fjord Peninsula. The resort consisted of beautiful wooden cabins with a perfect view over the fjord and mountains. The ARCTOS network is a great opportunity for early career researchers to get together, collaborate and find […]

This year ARCTOS Days took place in beautiful Malangen Brygger on March 14-15. We were around 35 researchers and students and the program was packed with interesting research presentations, group work, a poster session, discussions and project presentations. In total we had five PhD candidate presentations, ranging from macroalgae ecology, over unmanned aerial marine mammal surveys, Calanus spp. distribution to be […]

The exhibition «Living ice: The drift ice in the Arctic Ocean», is the result of a collaboration between The Polar Museum and the research group Arctic SIZE (Arctic Seasonal Ice Zone). The core group consists of the ARCTOS members Paul Wassmann, Rolf Gradinger, Marit Reigstad, Bodil Bluhm, and Jørgen Berge. Ola Reibo from REIBO AS has designed the exhibition and the […]

A recent study on blue mussels from various regions in the Arctic have unraveled a very surprising discovery – there are many migrants from the Mediterranean on Svalbard! We used to think that the blue mussels on Svalbard were simply a northern extension of the Atlantic species Mytilus edulis, but new research have demonstrated that a considerable part of the […]

New research from Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, has been assembled in two Special Issues of Polar Biology. Both issues (10 and 11) are available here. The idea to assemble research papers into these volumes was initiated during the Kongsfjorden Ecosystem Workshop, with 60 national and international participants, held on 10-17 March 2014 at the conference facility Hamn i Senja, Skaland, Norway. In […]

Tromsø was the venue for the science-planning meeting of the foreign-ministry–financed project ‘CoArc: A transatlantic innovation arena for sustainable development in the Arctic.’ Seven collaborators from Canada and France met with local ARCTOS project members and invited guests on 12-14 October 2016 to define the work plan in the work package on ‘Trans-Atlantic ecosystem understanding.’ This 4-year project, involving Akvaplan-niva, […]

The FAABulous project (led by Eva Leu, Akvaplan-niva, funded by NRC 2015-2020) had its annual meeting 12.-14.10.2016. 19 participants gathered in a hotel outside Oslo to update each other on the past year’s data collection, experimental and modeling activities, and started discussing the field work for 2017. The FAABulous project is closely connected with the ARCTOS network, and in particular […]

In Tromsø, this year’s research days (forskningsdagene) culminated in the big hunt for knowledge at the Fram Centre and UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Many ARCTOS members and students contributed actively. Ireen Vieweg, active member of the student diving club (SUT) organized a cleaning activity in concert with Hold Norge Rent  (keep Norway clean) and the research project MARP3 […]

The Polar Night exhibition, which opened in Tromsø in January 2015, has now found a new temporary home in the Science museum in Trondheim. It is the same exhibition as the one from Tromsø, except that it also contains a few new and more technology focused elements. And it now has its very own music specially composed by BIIAS (Tobias […]

The ARCTOS research network invites PhD candidates to a student workshop offering an exciting program for early career scientists working on issues related to the Arctic. The workshop is taking place from 22 January 2017 to 1 February 2017 in conjunction with the Arctic Frontiers conference and continues afterwards in Svolvær, Lofoten. As part of the workshop, participants have to […]