Rane Willerslev, a professor of Social Anthropology and a well-known researcher and adventurer is becomming new director of the Danish National Museum. He aims to make the National Museum "wild and challenging".
In just a few decades, the Arctic Ocean has become a dumping ground for plastic waste from the USA and Northwest Europe, shows a new study. Over time, plastics from as far away as China could also reach the Arctic.
What began as an undergraduate summer NSERC research position, resulted in the extraordinary opportunity to participate in the 2017 BaySys (Hudson Bay) system study currently underway. This included flying by helicopter onto sea ice in Hudson Bay to deploy a CEOS designed ice-mass balance buoy.
The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources and a number of other research-related knowledge centers and universities in 2015 launched a web portal www.isaaffik.org.
Changing sea ice in the Canadian Arctic is the inspiration behind SIKU (pronounced: see-coo) a new online social media and mapping platform, which is a finalist for the Google.org Impact Challenge.
The Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics (BFE) has a permanent position vacant as Professor / Associate Professor in marine botany. The position is attached to the Department of Arctic and Marine Biology (AMB) and the research group Arctic Marine System Ecology (AMSE) in Tromsø.
