News from the Polar Academy
Sea Ice in the Arctic - Past, Present and Future
This book provides in-depth information about the sea ice in the Arctic at scales from paleoenvironmental variability to more contemporary changes during the past and present centuries.
Norges Vitenskapsakademi for Polarforskning (NVP) - Seminar om sikkerhet i nordområdene
Tirsdag 26 November kl. 14:00. Auditorium Elias Blix (A13), Nord Universitet, Bodø.
Svalbard alumni workshop
The Svalbard Alumni Workshop, by invitation, will identify, define, and develop a network of Svalbard-related young scholars.
Svalbard Science Conference 2019 - Svalbard in a pan-Arctic perspective
The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, with a location in the high Arctic and easy accessibility, represents a unique platform for high quality international research and education.
Cruising the marginal ice zone: Climate change and Arctic tourism
This article is the final result of the “The Arctic and the marginal ice zone (MIZ): Interdisciplinary research, management, practices and policy developments” summer school, held in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, in August 2017.
NVP International Summer School 2020
During the last board meeting, it was decided that the academy will move forward with the organization of the NVP’s International Summer School 2020.
“The Global Arctic”: A Strategic Vision for the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research
The forces of nature and society are redrawing the maps of the world. The climate is changing, temperatures are increasing, ice is melting, permafrost is thawing, and some species change their migration and distribution whilst others are threatened.
SARex reports from 2016, 2017 and 2018 are availabe online
The University of Stavanger and the Norwegian Coast’s guard have published the result of the SARex exercises from 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Prof. Grete Hovelsrud has been elected as the new Academy’s President (2018-2020)
Prof. Grete Hovelsrud has been recently elected as the new Academy president for the period 2018 -2020. She is the first woman to assume this position in the Academy’s 10 years of history.
Norges Vitenskapsakademi for Polarforskning (NVP) - 10 års jubileumsseminar
Norges Vitenskapsakademi for Polarforskning (NVP) – 10 års Jubileumsseminar. Det Globale Arktis, Mandag 26 November kl. 16:00 på Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Drammensveien 78, Oslo.
Daily reports from the GoNorth Expeditions
The GoNorth consortium has proposed a wide-ranging and cross-disciplinary program to acquire new and essential knowledge about the oceanic areas, from the sea floor and subsea geology, through the water column, to the surface sea ice. Education will be an important part of the program.
The reports are published in Norwegian.