An International Conference on Arctic Ocean Acidification will be held 6-8 May 2013 in Bergen, Norway. Interested participants are invited to submit abstracts before 1 January 2013.

 

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The open-access journals Polar Research and Earth System Science Data announce a unique cooperative Special Issue.

 

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The theme for the first ever SSF funded workshop is permafrost and is held at UNIS this week!

 

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The SSF have submitted a hearing statement to the Eastern Svalbard management plan to the Governor’s office. The statement was approved by all members of the SSF on the biannual SSF meeting in Longyearbyen this week.

 

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The call for proposals for the INTERACT Transnational access program is now open. The deadline of the call is October 31, 2012

 

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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 2013. The application deadline is at 1:00 pm November 28, 2012.

 

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Thanks to the AFG 2012 and a collaboration with Professor Doug Benn at UNIS, Kenneth Mankoff from the university of California was able to conduct research in the ice caves in Hansbreen this summer.

 

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All regulations relevant to research in Svalbard are translated and available in English through the Governor's website.
 

The SSF organized workshops are highly relevant to our new funding schemes. Here are the potential cooperation projects from the inspiring SSF workshop No. 3 in Oslo in February on changes in snow, ice and pollutants and their effects on terrestrial ecosystems. Apply for one of these or other SSF priorities in our call for Svalbard Strategic Grants with deadline October 17.

 

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Christiane is moving north so the SSF is therefore looking for a new staff member in Longyearbyen.

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The governor of Svalbard has granted the Norwegian Mapping authority permission to build a new geodetic observatory by the
Brandallaguna in Ny-Ålesund.

 

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The governor of Svalbard has finalized the suggestion for the new management plan for the eastern most areas of Svalbard. The deadline is October 10.
 

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SSF is happy to announce the second round of SSF workshop and support funds!

Deadline is October 17.
 

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What is the potential for visitors to Svalbard to introduce non-native species that may cause environmental impact?


 

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For 3 days in July Christiane and Karoline from SSF joined the Polish research vessel Horizon to learn more the Polish research activities and inform about the SSF.

 

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New DNA evidence from ancient Polar bear remains reveals that the white bear might have been a separate species for far longer than previously assumed.

 

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In the last 2 summers a white goose have been observed in between the barnacle geese observed near the dogyard, just outside Longyearbyen.

 

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The governor of Svalbard has finalized the suggestion for the new management plan for the eastern most areas of Svalbard.

 

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The Climate and pollution Directorate (KLiF) and the Governor of Svalbards office (SMS) published jointly a report on the current contamination status for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in the Svalbard environment.

 

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The Norwegian polar Institutes interactive Svalbard map have recently been updated with a 3D view.
 

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The Research Council of Norway has decided to allocate funding to four cooperation workshops and three projects, in total NOK 1.5 million from Svalbard Science Forum strategic funds.
 

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The Cryosphere Working Group of the International Arctic Science Committee has initiated a field workshop on studies of Arctic tidewater glaciers. The workshop will be held in Svalbard aboard the Polish r/v “Horyzont II”.
 

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Astronomers around the world looked to the sky on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning to observe Venus as it passed
across the face of the Sun for the last time this century.
 

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Want to learn more about Norwegian research in Svalbard? Svalbard Science Forum invites you to a presentation of the report ‘Norwegian polar research - research in Svalbard’ based on resource and publication indicators from 2010. The
report is published by Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU) and will be presented by Dag W. Aksnes.

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For more than 25 years hunters in Svalbard have collected reindeer jaws and the results are now in.

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This week SSF had its first annual ski day!

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The Italian station in Ny-Ålesund is celebrating its 15th birthday! 

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Have you considered the possibilities for coordination of logistics this summer? The first sailing activity plans for the summer of 2012 are ready. 

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We are redesigning our website www.svalbardscienceforum.no and would like your help. Please take a few minutes to respond to our survey. We want your feedback!

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The northward expansion of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) into arctic waters has been seen as a potential threat to the polar cod (Boreogadus saida).

 

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At the end of April 2012, the final event of the Polar year 2007-2008, took place in Montreal, Canada. Beforehand the participants were encouraged to create ‘Frostbytes’ of their research.
 

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Svalbard Science Forum has more than 2000 projects registered in RiS database. Some of them are completed, some are in work and some still in the planning phase.
 

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A new report released by the Environmental monitoring of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (MOSJ) shows that the amount of toxins in the Arctic has decreased.

 

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The system, named PRIMOS (Prioriterte miljøområder på Svalbard) is based on information about environmental resources on Svalbard, including information about seabirds, marine mammals, cultural heritage sites and benthic communities.
 

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In reply to the questions asked by the Governor of Svalbard after the previous hearing, the Norwegian Mapping Authority has supplied additional
information related to their application to build a new geodetic observatory in Ny-Ålesund.
 

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New research shows that the level of PCBs in polar bear cubs in Svalbard have decreased by up to 59% between 1998 and 2008.
 

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The Svalbard Science Forum is proud to announce that we now have 2000 projects registered in the RiS-database.
 

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What do we really know about the effects of traffic from tourism and the
impact they have on the nature of Svalbard? How much can the nature
withstand before the damage is irreversible?
 

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The project Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global effects in the 21st Century, PAGE21, is a 4-year research project in the EU 7th framework involving 19 institutions from 11 different countries.
 

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For the fifth time a research programme organized by Centre for Polar Ecology, University of South Bohemia in Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic has been carried out in in Petunibukta.
 

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For the first time scientists have proved that Glaucous gull mortalities are affected by environmental toxins.
 

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3 years ago a number of Kittiwakes from colonies throughout the arctic were fitted with small daylight loggers in order to pinpoint their wither homes.
 

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This week, Espen Madsen Knutsen from Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, will defend his PhD thesis 'Late Jurassic plesiosaurians (Sauropterygia- Plesiosauria) from the Agardhfjellet Formation on Svalbard'.
 

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Near Space Research (NSR), a campaign of the University of Rome La Sapienza and The ISTAR Group from USA, launched two small stratospheric balloons during January, 2012 from Ny-Ålesund as part of the Polar Observation Platform (POP) campaigns. The second balloons trajectoy was somewhat surprising and unlike unlike any flight profile experienced in the past 8 years.
 

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

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

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A new automatic weather station has been placed in Pyramiden.
 

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

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

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

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

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