Sascha Schiøtt from Qaqortoq, defended her thesis at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources. This is the first time that a female Greenlandic biology student defends her thesis in her home country.
Contrary to last year’s NDF- assessment, Non-Detrimental Findings, catch of walrus in Greenland has now been declared sustainable. This status has also been given to the minke whale and the beluga whale from West Greenland for this year.
The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR), University of Greenland (UoG) and Aarhus University (AU) offers research-based education in Arctic climate, environment and society for Natural Science graduate students.
Aarhus University and Greenland Institute of Natural Resources are proud to host the International Conference of the North Water Polynya 2017. The theme for the conference is "Natural science on the North Water Polynya".
The world is heating up — and much more quickly than expected, a recent Arctic research report states."Arctic temperatures are rising faster than the global average," the Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic assessment states.