Arctic Research
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Arctic Research is a blog site of INTERACT, an EU H2020 project that offers researchers access to the Arctic and northern alpine and forest areas through a Transnational Access Programme. Follow to keep up with latest updates by following our blog.
Arctic Research
6d ago
Blogging from CHARS in Canada with Huw Griffiths and Stefen Roberts Cath is a Polar ecologist with a focus on intertidal and nearshore habitats. Her previous work on community structure and development has been mainly on or around the Antarctic Peninsula and islands. Along with the Arctic these are the fastest warming places on the ..read more
Arctic Research
3w ago
Blogging from Zackenberg Research Station in Greenland I am a member of the Symbiosis Evolution Research Group® at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, (the Dream Team, and the Seven – although we are actually ten but hopefully, you get the pop culture reference) https://symbio.eko.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/news. Together with prof. Tomas Roslin (the more handsome gentlemen in the picture ..read more
Arctic Research
1M ago
Blogging from NERC Arctic Research Station, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard and Kobbefjord Field Station, GINR, Greenland I am a second-year graduate student at Duke University studying Earth and Climates Sciences. This summer, my advisor, Nicolas Cassar, and I are traveling to Arctic and sub-Arctic environments in Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and Alaska to investigate how climate change ..read more
Arctic Research
4M ago
On the way north across the remaining bit of Sweden, crossing the northeast corner of Finland, and driving into Norway, autumn is progressing. The landscape is turning more colourful the further we go. Forests in patterns of green, yellow, orange and red, and peatlands and tundra with a similar colour palette are never boring to ..read more
Arctic Research
4M ago
After a long journey from Bristol, we made it to the Abisko Scientific Research Station north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden – Fin and I, and all 8 pieces of luggage. After a day of setting up the lab and sorting all our field kit in the lab with scenic views of the lake ..read more
Arctic Research
4M ago
Our final sunrise above the ringing peaks of the Kobbefjord arrived under a pale blue sky. After a weekend hiking and collecting on steep terraced hills amid a tangle of lakes and fens, the tables and floors of the field station heap with lichens and mosses. Despite keeping the station’s furnace roaring to the temperature ..read more
Arctic Research
4M ago
Skimming over the icy waters off the southwest coast of Greenland, I scarcely hear the whir of the twin outboard engines nor feel the wave chop as we enter the mouth of the Kobbefjord. My eyes are fixed on the distant, sheer enveloping peaks rising vertically from the sea. The summits glint in the sun ..read more
Arctic Research
6M ago
Four researchers from the AQUATERR project (see more at our homepage, Twitter, and ResearchGate) embarked on a journey mid-June 2022 to the Finnish Laplands to collect Arctic emergent aquatic insects. We, Dr. Martin Kainz (Austria), Prof. Dominik Martin-Creuzburg (Germany), Dr. Margaux Mathieu-Resuge (France), and PhD candidate Tarn Preet Parmar (Germany) arrived in Kilpisjärvi to the ..read more
Arctic Research
8M ago
I am a MSCA researcher of the research group ‘Plants and Ecosystems’ (PLECO) at the University of Antwerpen, Belgium. I focus on the impacts of permafrost thaw on the biogeochemistry of arctic peatlands, and my research is done within the framework of the FROSTLAND project. Permafrost peatlands in the Arctic typically develop as patterned-ground systems ..read more
Arctic Research
8M ago
Our fourth and final call for INTERACT Transnational and Remote Access of our current EU-H2020 funding period is open for access taking place in April-October 2023. The call is for research groups to apply Transnational Access to 39 research stations across the Arctic, northern alpine and forest areas. The sites represent a variety of glacier ..read more