Happy New Year! We would like to invite you all to the first ARCTOS Colloquium/Workshop of 2021 (on Zoom) focusing on: Macroalgae of high latitudes. Thanks to Bodil Bluhm, Marcus Molis, Paul Renaud, Sanna Matson, and Haakon Hop for initiating and organizing! Contact ARCTOS@bfe.uit.no if you would like to attend. PROGRAMTuesday, Jan 19 12:00 Bodil Bluhm: Welcome and introduction Session […]
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Highlighting recent findings in observation and modelling, and discussing knowledge gaps and challenges – a successful international workshop. More than 50 researchers and graduate students from various European countries, Canada and the US participated in a four-days workshop organized by ARCTOS member Eva Leu together with colleagues from three different projects funded under the Changing Arctic Ocean program (link: https://www.changing-arctic-ocean.ac.uk/). […]
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On 12 October 2020, several members of the SCOR Working Group on Changing Ocean Biological Systems held a workshop centered around their Best Practices Guide for multi-factor experiments. Constraints on traveling led to an unusual format whereby multiple in-person nodes around Norway and Denmark were linked via Zoom where break-out working groups were enabled, and lectures and practical work facilitated. […]
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Written by Erin Kunisch (PhD member) and Hanna Kauko (post-doc member) This year, our PhD day started with an exercise on how to better manage stress in our everyday lives, with Anne R. Grini, a local yoga and meditation teacher. We worked on how to create mindfulness and maintain energy throughout our day. We then had an engaging seminar with […]
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It has become a tradition that the annual meeting of the ARCTOS network takes place on beautiful Sommarøy and we usually get rewarded with fantastic weather. This year was no exception. Even though the circumstances were rather special this year and shortly after this meeting, all meetings had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we had a record […]
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In mid-October, the Arctic SIZE (Seasonal Ice Zone Ecology) project 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 results produced over the past 2 years. Check out their publication list.
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By Amanda Poste (NIVA) and Janne Søreide (UNIS) We are seeking 2–3 MSc students on a wide range of topics related to land-ocean interactions, with a focus on how terrestrial inputs can affect Arctic coastal ecosystems. The MSc projects will be connected to several ongoing research projects focusing on quantifying terrestrial inputs (e.g. from rivers and glaciers) to Svalbard’s coastal […]
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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 January 26th to February 4th 2020 in conjunction with the Arctic Frontiers conference and continues afterwards in Svolvær, Lofoten. As part of the workshop, participants have to attend the […]
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Written by Tobias Vonnahme ARCTOS PhD students Ulrike Dietrich and Tobias Vonnahme just finished a week of fieldwork in Billefjorden in Svalbard. Together with Eva Hejdukova from the Prague University, Josef Elster and Jiri Stojdl from the Centre for Polar Ecology (Czech republic), they investigated the influence of a shallow tidewater outlet glacier on the phytoplankton and bacteria activity and […]
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ARCTOS member Sünnje Basedow is the research project leader of the new project Stressor, together with Meng Zhou from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Stressor is a Norwegian-Chinese collaborative research project in which they look at mesoscale eddies and how they affect the formation of zooplankton swarms. It is financed by the National Science Foundation of China and the Norwegian […]
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