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On the 15th of September Stephen G. Kohler successfully defended his PhD entitled “Seasonal biogeochemical cycling of mercury on the Arctic Ocean shelf” at the Department of Chemistry at NTNU.

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.

The registration deadline for our symposium in november 2023 is prolonged to 20 October 2023! Go to: https://www.nansenlegacy-symposium.com/registration/registration/

This autumn Nansen Legacy members are organizing several workshops to strengthen the collaboration across approaches and disciplines. Some workshops also involve key scientists outside the Nansen Legacy project. The workshops prepare synthesis papers and data files which will become available on the website upon publication.

Rijpfjorden, on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, has long been an example of a pristine Arctic fjord that, unlike fjords on Svalbard’s west coast, has not been affected by climate warming.

Now you can register for the symposium “Towards the new Arctic Ocean – Past, Present, Future”.

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.

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.