Long-term variability and change of marine ecosystems
Research Focus
- Mooring-based ocean observatories Svalbard, since 2000s
- Sea ice and upper water column in ice-covered waters of the Arctic, since 2016
- Pandalus borealis population structure, since 1980s
- Coastal hard-bottom benthos (N-Norway and Svalbard), since 1980s
Projects
- Arctic ABC programme
- Kongsfjorden Rijpfjorden Observatory Programme - KROP
- Long-term variability and trends in the Atlantic Water inflow, A-TWAIN
- Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate, MOSAiC
- SIOS InfraNOR
- Arctic Passion - development of an A-DBO (Atlantic Arctic Distributed Biological Observing System)
Data archives
- National e-Infrastructure for Research Data (NIRD)
- Norwegian Marine Data Centre (NMDC)
- Svalbard Integrated Earth Observation System (SIOS)
- UiT Open Research Data
People and expertise
Key National and International Partners
- Akvaplan-Niva
- Institute of Marine Research
- Norwegian Polar Institute
- Scottish Association of Marine Science
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- The University Centre in Svalbard
- Alfred Wegener Institute