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Scientists have detected new early-warning signals indicating that the central-western part of the Greenland Ice Sheet may undergo a critical transition relatively soon. Because of rising temperatures, a new study by researchers from Germany and Norway shows, the destabilization of the ice sheet has begun and the process of melting may escalate already at limited warming levels. A tipping of the ice sheet would substantially increase long-term global sea level rise. We have found evidence that the central-western part of the Greenland ice sheet has been destabilizing and is now close to a critical transition, explains lead author Niklas Boers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Free University, Berlin, Germany. Our results suggest there will be substantially enhanced melting in the future - which is quite worrying.
In cooperation with the Nansen Legacy programme led by UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Akvaplan-niva will contribute to a PhD course during a research cruise to the Northern Barents Sea. The cruise will start in Tromsø on May 14th and end in Tromsø on May 22nd. The key idea behind the cruise is to carry out a detailed characterization of the Polar Front using a combination of traditional and autonomous sampling platforms and techniques. To this end, Equinor is financing the deployment of the Akvaplan-niva fleet of gliders which comprises two Seaglider Hydroid M1 and two Sailbuoys (Offshore Sensing) each rigged with advanced sensors. The cruise will be a direct follow up of a study carried out in May 1999 and 2000 (See map). This will allow a characterization of the Polar Front in space and time.
Foreign Ministry hosts webinar to review measures of Port State Control and Maritime Safety and Security in the Indian Ocean Region
May, 10, 2021
Eminent international legal luminaries, Managing Director and Head of Projects for Morocco and Sudan at the Max Planck Foundation Prof. Rüdiger Wolfrum and Director of the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea located at the Faculty of Law, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Prof.Tore Henriksen
were among the speakers at a webinar organized by the Foreign Ministry on 04 May 2021, as part of its responsibilities as the lead country for the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Working Group on Maritime Safety and security on the theme “Port State Control (PSC) and Maritime Safety and Security (MSS) in the Indian Ocean Region”.
The final meeting of the Arctic EcoSens project took place via Zoom on April 20-21. Unfortunately, we were unable to meet in Petrozavodsk as planned, but the 18 presentations highlighted the diverse and interesting work conducted over the last 3.5 years. The project investigated sensitivity of Arctic coastal ecosystems to petroleum pollution, and involved field work, experimental studies, molecular and geochemical analyses, community analysis, and sensitivity modelling.
New research results in fields such as taxonomy, microbiomes, transcriptomics, host-parasite ecology, petroleum impacts on capelin early life-stages, coastal plant and fjord benthos communities, hydrocarbon geochemistry, and coastal sensitivity and risk analysis, and input to management bodies were presented. Many biotic parameters were assessed in reference to petroleum-based stressors. Key findings include improved taxonomic studies of Spionid polychaetes, contrasting impacts of oil on capelin and polar cod, the
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IMAGE: Letizia Jaccheri, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology s Department of Computer Science, helped launch the IDUN project, designed to help women in computer science and other. view more
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If you ask Letizia Jaccheri what got her interested in computer science as a young girl, she has two ready answers: The first is Pisa, the town in Italy where she was born. Here, engineers built Italy s first home-grown computer, supported by entrepreneur Adriano Olivetti.
The second was a math teacher who taught her, as a 16-year-old, to program a simple handheld Texas Instruments calculator. It was such an important milestone that she even remembers the model number of the little machine, a TI-57.