\u2018The outcome of this seminar shows that both quality and quantity of the research at Ny-\u00c5lesund have increased considerably during the last years\u2019, says Kerstin Stebel from NILU.<\/p>\n
The interdisciplinary meeting gathered experts with a background in Chemistry, Geology, Marine Biology, Meteorology and Physics \u2013 to mention a few. They had one thing in common: Ny-\u00c5lesund, one of the four permanent settlements of Svalbard as research base, an environment offering excellent opportunities to study the effects of climate change and environmental pollutants in the Arctic.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Ny-\u00c5lesund seminar demonstrated that research at Svalbard is essential to receive more information on environmental burdens and the effects of climate change in the Arctic\u2019, says Kerstin Stebel. \u2018It is very encouraging to see how open the scientists are towards cooperating both within their own area of expertise and inter-disciplinary\u2019, she adds.<\/p>\n
According to Kim Holm\u00e9n, international director at the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), the meaning of Ny-\u00c5lesund as global surveillance station has never been more important than now. \u2018The seminar has been dominated by scientists from the field of atmospheric research, and progress has been made with regard to vertical mixing of airmass and its relevance for Ny-\u00c5lesund and Zeppelin\u2019, says Holm\u00e9n. He also points to the fact that there has been progress in the field of biology with for example the development of new methods in genetics.<\/p>\n
Ny-\u00c5lesund experiences an increased interest from both scientists and tourists. The scientists at the seminar have been very much fond of keeping the observatory as a mostly untouched and preserved area in the Arctic. \u2018This is of big importance for the ongoing research here\u2019, says Kim Holm\u00e9n.<\/p>\n
Improved cooperation and coordination of the steadily increasing number of activities within atmospheric research at Svalbard has been formulated as important aim by the atmospheric scientists at the seminar. One example in this direction is CICCI \u2013 Cooperative Investigation of Climate-Cryosphere Interaction. This initiative has been established to coordinate research activities with regard to improvement of knowledge about processes that control the distribution of soot in the Arctic atmosphere, deposition of snow and ice and the subsequent influence on climate.<\/p>\n
Ny-\u00c5lesund is also an established model point within SIOS \u2013 Svalbard Integrated Earth Observing System. The infrastructure project has the aim to establish an Arctic earth observation system and to integrate observation within geophysical, chemical and biological processes from all research and observation at Svalbard. This was the reason for the Norwegian Space Centre to participate in the seminar. They are amongst others interested in validating future satellites and algorithms with in-situ data.<\/p>\n
Six institutes under the direction of the Norwegian Research Council form the board of the Svalbard Science Forum (SSF) that is coordinating and promoting the increasing number of international research activities at Svalbard. Four so called flagship programs were launched in 2008 to promote research activities at Ny-\u00c5lesund:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0Kongsfjord System Flagship
\n2.\u00a0Atmospheric Research Flagship
\n3.\u00a0Terrestrial System Flagship
\n4.\u00a0Glaciology Flagship<\/p>\n
The flagship programs serve as umbrella organisation for research activities in four different research areas specifically related to the Arctic: marine water, atmosphere, land and glaciers, all of which were discussed at the seminar. The presentations show that there are more and more new research groups established at Svalbard that wish to cooperate and coordinate with the research at Ny-\u00c5lesund.
\nThe performance of the 10th Ny-\u00c5lesund seminar has been supported by the Norwegian Research Council. This made it amongst others possible to invite PhD students and young researchers to participate.<\/p>\n
Contact information<\/strong> 25.-26. oktober 2011 var en internasjonal gruppe på 70 forskere samlet til det 10. Ny-Ålesund-seminaret. Seminaret ble holdt på Kunnskapsbyens hus på Kjeller med NILU som vertskap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsarchive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11849,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/11849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKerstin Stebel<\/strong>, senior scientist NILU, email kst@nilu.no<\/a>
\nKim Holm\u00e9n<\/strong>, director of the Norwegian Polar Institute, email kim.holmen@npolar.no<\/a>
\nAnne Nyeggen<\/strong>, head of communications NILU, 90776232, any@nilu.no<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"