News from the Polar Academy
Nomination of candidates for membership 2020
Individual Norwegian members to NVP are Norwegian citizens who have carried out independent scientific work in polar research or specifically have contributed to the advancement of polar research (§5.2.)
GoNorth - Exploring the Arctic Ocean
13 Norwegian research and education organizations, collectively known as GoNorth, have promoted a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary program to investigate the Arctic Ocean.
NVP International Summer School 2020 - Postponed until 2021
During the last days, there has been rapid development in the situation regarding the Coronavirus. Health and safety is of the highest priority all around the world.
10 new members were elected during the Annual Meeting 2019
It is a pleasure to inform that ten (10) new members were elected during the 2019’s Academy’s Annual Meeting in Bodø Norway ; November 26th 2019.
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.
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.