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New portal for research-based information about the Arctic and Antarctic

After two years of project work, the University Library at UiT Norway’s Arctic University is proud to launch a search portal where you can find all available research-based information about the polar areas in one place, both scientific articles, reports, and datasets. The search portal is developed in collaboration with researchers from the Norwegian Polar Institute and UiT Norway’s Arctic University.

The Open Polar, The Global Open Access Portal for Research Data and Publications on the Arctic and Antarctic was launched in Tromsø on 1 September, 2021.

Link to news article about OPEN POLAR .

Visit the portal

The portal is found here.

 

 

A new book published by the BBVA Foundation presents the multidisciplinary vision of 30 leading experts on the Arctic meltdown and its global repercussions

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Oppfølgingsplan for norsk polarforskning (only in Norwegian)

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Foto: NVP / Marry K. Sandstå

I 2017 evaluerte Forskningsrådet norsk polarforskning, og nå har en komite bestående av eksperter innen norsk polarforskning fulgt opp.

Akademiets president og flere av akademiets medlemmer har vært medlemmer av oppfølgingskomiteen:

  • Jørgen Berge, leder UiTs Polarforskningskomité, UiT, Tromsø
  • Hanne Hvidtfeldt Christiansen, visedekan for utdanning, UNIS, Svalbard
  • Grete Hovelsrud, professor, Nord universitet, Bodø
  • Sveinung Løset, professor, prodekan forskning og innovasjon, NTNU
  • Ole Arve Misund, direktør, Norsk Polarinstitutt, Tromsø
  • Brit Lisa Skjelkvåle, instituttleder, Institutt for Geofag, UiO, Oslo

Klikk her for å lese oppfølgingsplanen der de anbefaler nye polare satsinger og koordineringstiltak.

Svalbard og havområdene – nye utenrikspolitiske utfordringer for Norge? (Svalbard and the Surrounding Ocean Spaces – New Foreign Policy Challenges for Norway?)

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Internasjonal Politikk, No 4, Vol 78, 2020, pp. 511-522. 

Article available only in Norwegian, but with an abstract in English.

The full article can be read or downloaded here.

Article by:

  • Arild Moe Fridtjof Nansens Institutt, Norge
  • Øystein Jensen Fridtjof Nansens Institutt og Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge, Norge

The Norwegian Climate Foundation — report no. 02/2019

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THE GEOPOLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ARCTIC SEA ICE MELT

Climate change, international trade, and the oil & gas industry
SOPHIA MATTHEWS, Brown University
IN COOPERATION WITH:
Nansen Scientific Society

IN COOPERATION WITH:
Nansen Scientific Society

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