What are the key findings from the Nansen Legacy project? If you don’t have time to read the >200 scientific publications, our new Nansen Legacy fact sheets provide a visual and condensed access to new knowledge on ten topics on the Barents Sea system.

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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.

Update 16 May 2023: We have extended the deadline and abstracts can be submitted until 23 May 2023, 23:59

The Meteorological Institute is hosting this year’s three-day workshop on sea ice and sea ice forecasting, with contribution from The Nansen Legacy.

For decades, the impact of research was measured within the research discipline itself, often in terms of citations or how ideas presented advanced the field. Nowadays, researchers must increasingly plan for and document how the results of their work will be used – how they will contribute to society.

The Gordon Research Conference for Polar Marine Science is a premier international scientific conference that gives space and atmosphere to present and discuss the frontier of polar research and ideas, including unpublished material. Results from the Nansen Legacy research were well received.

We have added a new page for you to find datasets. Search from the year it was collected or after certain types. It’s all up to you.

Meeting national and international research colleagues in Vienna after Covid has been gratifying for the Nansen Legacy projects scientists. It has been very nice to participate and contribute to The Arctic Science Summit Week, which is an arena for a wide range of organizational meetings and science sessions to coordinate, plan and promote Arctic science.

We invite the submission of abstracts from scientific work to our Symposium: Towards the new Arctic Ocean – Past, Present, Future

Last year we hit the 100-publication mark (2018-2022), and only one year late we have 60 more! Our scientists are productive, and the results are pouring into the project.

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) awards the 2023 IASC Medal to Professor emeritus Paul Wassmann, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, for outstanding long-lasting achievements to improve the knowledge of the ecology of the Arctic Ocean and the ability to combine excellent science and holistic drive to bring together various disciplines.

Arctic Frontiers takes place 30 Jan – 2 Feb 2023 in Tromsø and Nansen Legacy scientists and reference group members are organizing a side event on changing sea ice conditions and its implications.

From 1 to 3 November 2022, this year’s Nansen Legacy annual meeting took place in Bergen. In good tradition, also this year the program was tightly packed.

The future is a world full of standardized data that are easily accessible and understandable to all.

The Nansen Legacy project invites the Arctic research community to the international symposium in Tromsø, Norway, 7-9 November 2023.

After a period with focus on data collection, sample analyses, and model-based investigations and predictions, it is time to merge and integrate new knowledge across approaches and key themes. To do so, seven overarching themes have been identified and task force groups have been initiated in the project Nansen Legacy.

After two years of digital meetings the board at Nansen Legacy finally could meet in person at the Nansen Legacy board meeting in Tromsø today.

In June and July 2022, heatwaves struck Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, as temperatures climbed above 40 degrees Celsius in places. Less known is that heatwaves also occur in the ocean. Like heatwaves on land, marine heatwaves have the potential to devastate ecosystems and cause large economic losses in fisheries, aquaculture, and other marine ecosystem services, calling for an increased focus on and understanding of the occurrence and impact of marine heatwaves.

The interplay between mercury and manganese in Arctic seawater may explain a surprising drop researchers found in mercury levels in the Barents Sea during the winter.

In many Arctic regions, sea ice retreats northwards. This often moves the ice edge zone from relatively shallow waters on the continental shelf to several kilometre deep waters in the central Arctic Ocean. Implications of this displacement for organisms living at the ice edge are largely unknown. Scientists from the Institute of Marine Research have studied harp seals, which’s icy habitat has retreated from shallower to deeper waters north of Svalbard over the last 30 years.

Arctic sea-ice plays a pivotal role in the Earth’s climate system and its loss may accelerate the rise of global temperatures. Understanding the future state of sea-ice is therefore a prerequisite for evaluating the development of the World’s climate. Now scientists of Norway’s largest Arctic research project – The Nansen Legacy – have looked into both the past and the future to unravel the question of future sea-ice state in the Arctic.

NTNU researchers from AMOS, the Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems, used small satellites and subsea robots — and everything in between — to study marine life in Svalbard’s Kongsfjorden in a first-ever experiment in May.

Graphical abstracts, infographics, one-slide posters for digital conferences – the way scientific results are presented nowadays requires increased design and illustration skills. This is why the Nansen Legacy organized a

Nansen Legacy’s side event “From Science to Policy to Impact in the Arctic” on the last day of the Arctic Frontiers conference was a full success!

How can we keep track of all the data we collect in the Arctic? Watch this video to see how we do this in a consistent and standardized way that makes publishing our data easier.

Half-way through the Nansen Legacy project, 2021 was the year to take stock and to catch up.

The Nansen Legacy is home to over 30 PhD students. On April 22, Elliot Sivel (IMR/UiT) was the first of the Nansen Legacy PhD students to defend his work. The evaluation process included both a trial lecture on modulation of species interactions by environmental and anthropogenic stressors, as well as the dissertation defense presentation entitled ‘Investigating the drivers of the Nordic Seas food-web dynamics using Chance and Necessity modelling’.

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2022 took place in Tromsø 26 March to 1 April 2022 and scientists from the Nansen Legacy contributed in various ways.

Nansen Legacy has reached and passed the magical number of 100 publications! Congratulations to all scientists who have contributed. What are actually these publications about, where were they published and

The floor vibrates and a crushing sound fills the bridge as the Norwegian research icebreaker Kronprins Haakon breaks through the sea ice. At 87°N and 17°W, north of Greenland and

Since 2018, the Nansen Legacy consortium has successfully completed 16 ship-based expeditions into the Barents Sea. They have provided state-of- the-art new knowledge on Barents Sea physics, chemistry and biology across different seasons and oceanographic regions. This new knowledge achieved is needed to assess potential impacts of a changing marine system and to continue the sustainable use of the rich marine resources like cod, which is part of the key mission for Nansen Legacy.

The heat transport into the Nordic Seas has increased steadily in volume and temperature over the last century, according to recent study.