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Arctic Field Grant - allocations for 2012 03.02.2012

For 2012, almost three million NOK have been allocated to in total 62 Arctic Field Grant applicants.
 

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Call for new SSF funding options 09.01.2012

SSF is very happy to announce the first round of SSF workshop and support funds.
 

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Merry christmas and a Happy New Year 20.12.2011


 

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Taking the temperature of Pyramiden 15.12.2011

A new automatic weather station has been placed in Pyramiden.
 

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New polar journal 15.12.2011

This month the first edition of the Czech Polar Reports saw the light of day.
 

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News from Eastern Svalbard 25.11.2011

The work on writing a management plan for Eastern Svalbard Nature Reserves is still ongoing. Now the reports from the working groups Research/Education and Tourism are available in English.
 

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Rocket launch over Svalbard 18.11.2011

At some point in the coming two weeks a rocket aimed at the northern lights over Svalbard will be launched from Ny-Ålesund.
 

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Svalbard reindeer, a life story 15.11.2011

A new report from a 2011 Arctic Field Grant recipient investigates life-history strategies of Svalbard Reindeer.
 

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Greenland sharks, sluggish giants or fierce predators? 09.11.2011

A Norwegian TV program looks into a little known predator, the Greenland shark, which hunts the Svalbard waters for fish and even seals.
 

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Toxin levels in gull blood 04.11.2011

With support from the Arctic Field Grant, master Student Anja Johansen Haugerud spent two summer weeks on Svalbard taking samples from Glaucous gulls.
 

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We have the questions do you have the answers? 21.10.2011

In order to complete work package 5 of SIOS information on field stations,
equipment and infra structure is needed. For that your help is needed.
 

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Arctic Field Grant (Arktisstipend) - Call for Proposals 20.10.2011

Svalbard Science Forum, in cooperation with the Norwegian Polar Institute, will award Arctic Field Grants in connection with research projects in Svalbard and Jan Mayen in 2012.
 

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Third and final staff member in place at the SSF secretariat 17.10.2011

Svalbard Science Forum is now fully staffed in Longyearbyen. On October first Halvard Pedersen had his first day at work.
 

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Marble quarry on Blomstrandhalvøya 14.10.2011

Dutch researchers rediscovered an abandoned marble quarry at Blomstranden this summer.
 

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