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Where is the sea ice?

Found traces of antidepressants and painkillers in crustaceans on Svalbard

Summer courses 2021 open for application

The tiny rulers of Arctic Seas

Understanding the roles of microbial eukaryotes in the High Arctic ecosystems

Warm Atlantic water wants in, but is prevented from entering Isfjorden

About cheese, sea ice and a warmer Arctic

Stepping back into the past – UNIS repeat a 30-year old beach study in Storfjorden

Herbivores and a warming climate affect tundra plant community nutrient levels

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What’s on the menu for small Arctic animals?

A life in isolation

Flower love in Bjørndalen

2020 – A good sea ice year in Svalbard?

World Oceans Day: The Nansen Legacy

UNIS Annual Report 2019

Biodiversity Day in Svalbard

Can cruise tourists become citizen scientists?

Internship and Covid-19

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While we wait for the light – part 3

While we wait for the light – part 2

While we wait for the light – part 1

Summer/autumn courses 2020 open for application

Ice in sight!

We measure the temperature of Isfjorden

Fate of copepods in a warming Arctic dependent on the algae season

Marine drones on Svalbard

Atlantification of the marine ecosystem in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard

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About cod, the climate, polar cod and benthic animals

Funding for cross-disciplinary project in student active learning

Svalbard reindeer graze on seaweed in tough winters

Here are our excellent teaching practitioners

Cold, but not cold enough!

Algae – the foundation of life

Summer/autumn courses 2019 open for application

Funding for new high-arctic, interdisciplinary field laboratory

Stories from Rijpfjorden 5: On the way in (and out) of Rijpfjorden

Stories from Rijpfjorden 4: On mine kibbles, sea ice and food chains

Stories from Rijpfjorden 3: Monster!

Stories from Rijpfjorden 2: A time witness from a bygone era

Stories from Rijpfjorden 1: A unique place of great importance to our understanding of the Arctic

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First record of the hydrozoan Sympagohydra tuuli in Svalbard sea ice

Summer/autumn courses 2018 open for application

Green light for the Nansen Legacy

BioCEED Centre of Excellence in Biology Education granted status of excellence for five new years

Two peculiar acquaintances from the Svalbard fjords

Effects of sea ice on Arctic shrub growth: The importance of biotic interactions

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The snow crab has arrived!