Frontiers in Marine Sciences: Algal hot spots in a changing Arctic Ocean: Sea-ice ridges and the snow-ice interface

The article "Algal hot spots in a changing Arctic Ocean: Sea-ice ridges and the snow-ice interface" has been accepted for publishing by Frontiers in Marine Sciences. The authors are Mar…

IEEE TGRS: Arctic Sea Ice Characterization using Spaceborne Fully Polarimetric L-, C- and X-Band SAR with Validation by Airborne Measurements

The article "Arctic Sea Ice Characterization using Spaceborne Fully Polarimetric L-, C- and X-Band SAR with Validation by Airborne Measurements" has been accepted for publishing by IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and…

New PETROMAKS2 project: “Oil spill and newly formed sea ice detection, characterization, and mapping in the Barents Sea using remote sensing by SAR”

A new project has been granted through the Research Council of Norway's PETROMAKS2 programme: “Oil spill and newly formed sea ice detection, characterization, and mapping in the Barents Sea using remote…

CIRFA seminar 22 Feb: Andreas Reigber, DLR, and Leif Eriksson, Chalmers University

CIRFA welcomes you to a seminar where Andreas Reigber from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and Leif Eriksson (Chalmers) will give talks. Date: Thursday 22 February 2018 at 14h00-15h00 [add…

Public defence and trial lecture – Master of Science Temesgen Yitayew

Master of Science Temesgen Yitayew will publicly defend his PhD thesis on Friday 23 February, at 12.15, in Aud 1.022 in Teknologibygget. [caption id="attachment_2119" align="alignright" width="240"] Temesgen Yitayew[/caption] The trial…

JAXA ALOS-2 meeting

Camilla Brekke has today presented work done within the Earth Observation group at UiT, CIRFA and through the CIRFA-DLR collaboration at the 3rd PI Workshop of the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2…

CIRFA seminar 23 Jan. 14:00 – Anja Strømme and Ding Tao

CIRFA welcomes you to a seminar where Anja Strømme from the Norwegian Space Centre will talk about Norways involvement in the Copernicus program and Ding Tao from Fudan University will present…

CIRFA seminar 18 Jan. at 14:00 – Megan O’Sadnick

CIRFA welcomes you to a seminar where CIRFA PhD student Megan O'Sadnick will talk about fjord ice. Date: Thursday 18 January 2018 at 14h00-15h00 Venue: CIRFA, SIVA Innovation Centre (Forskningsparken), Tromsø…

CIRFA Newsletter December 2017 – Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the CIRFA team!

Dear CIRFA-partners, colleagues, and collaborators, The year 2017 is approaching the end, and it is time to summarize with a brief status report. We are happy to report that 2017…

Congratulations to the new Vice-Dean for Research, Prof. Camilla Brekke

Congratulations to Professor Camilla Brekke on her appointment as Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Science and Technology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway. She will from 1 January…