Supporting global biodiversity work

A critical element in mapping regional and global biodiversity is to bring existing relevant
data together. Darwin Core is an international standard on how to do this that facilitates
future integration of existing data. The Nansen Legacy trains researchers to publish and
archive the collected data on Arctic marine species for future and global use.

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Agneta Fransson represented Nansen Legacy on SAS

Agneta Fransson (Norsk Polarinstitutt) participated in the workshop of the international initiative Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA, for pan-Arctic collaboration between Norway and participating countries such as Japan, Korea, USA, Canada, Sweden, Italy, Germany, Denmark.

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Happy World Ocean Day!

In six years, over 280 researchers walked in Nansen’s footsteps, and research everything from the bottom of the sea to observe the earth from satellites in space.
This has given us over 200 scientific publications with knowledge on the rapidly changing marine climate and ecosystem.
Today we present a few of these stories from bottom to space, so maybe you can understand the Arctic better.

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The keynote speakers are now announced for our international research symposium

Exciting news! The keynote speakers are now announced for “Towards a new Arctic Ocean – Past, Present, Future” in Tromsø in November. Abstract submission deadline is 15. May.

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