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Unprecedented Arctic phytoplankton bloom under snow-covered ice observed during N-ICE2015 Arctic campaign
A new article has been published in Scientific Reports on 19 January 2017: “Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ice”, by Philipp Assmy and…
Arctic Frontiers: Best Poster Award
The Arctic Frontiers 2017 Most Outstanding Poster Award goes to Katalin Blix, with her poster "Monitoring primary productivity through Chlorophyll-a content estimation in the Arctic". Abstract: "Primary productivity in Arctic oceanic waters…
Emerging Leaders of Arctic Frontiers 2017
Over a number of days, the Emerging Leaders programme of Arctic Frontiers gathered young professionals to meet with representatives from academia, business and the public sector in order to discuss and…
CIRFA at POLinSAR and Arctic Frontiers
Exciting week for CIRFA where our members are presenting their work both in Frascati, Italy at the POLinSAR conference, and at Arctic Frontiers held in Tromsø. POLinSAR At POLinSAR two oral…
Newsletter December 2016
CIRFA-Newsletter Tromsø, 17.12.2016 Dear CIRFA-partners, colleagues, and collaborators, Time is passing fast. The year 2016 is approaching the end, and it is time to summarize with a brief status…
Vacant PhD positions in (1) Remote sensing of oil in Arctic sea ice and (2) RPAS remote sensing for Arctic applications
EXTENDED DEADLINE - 10 January 2017 CIRFA has currently two open PhD candidates at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, with an extended application deadline on 10 January 2017.…
Plans for oil-in-ice experiment in spring 2017
An experiment to freeze oil in ice with the aim to investigate oil-spill detection capabilities in sea ice with remote sensing techniques and to study the oil's micro-scale behaviour and transport,…
INTPART project to CIRFA: Arctic Field Summer School
CIRFA has been awarded a project under the programme "International partnerships for excellent education and research" (INTPART). The project is titled "Arctic Field Summer Schools: Norway-Canada-USA collaboration" and is lead…
New article: Measurement and modeling of oil slick transport
The paper "Measurement and modeling of oil slick transport" by Cathleen E. Jones, Knut-Frode Dagestad, Øyvind Breivik, Benjamin Holt, Johannes Röhrs, Kai Håkon Christensen, Martine Espeseth, Camilla Brekke, and Stine Skrunes, made…
CIRFA seminar 10 Nov: Research topics in the field of remote sensing at University of Florence
Date: Thursday 10 November, 14:00-15:00 Venue: CIRFA, Forskningsparken 3, 3rd floor, Tromsø Presented by: Fabrizio Argenti Research topics in the field of remote sensing at University of Florence The aim of…