Video from Ny-Ålesund, April 2016

Check out the video presentation of Rune Storvold and Northern Research Institute's campaign in Ny-Ålesund, April 2016. They were using UAVs, ground radar and satellite imagery to detect sea ice…

Presenting PhD fellow Martine Espeseth

Martine Mostervik Espeseth (25) started her PhD in CIRFA WP3 in December 2015, and will spend the next four years doing research on oil spill detection and characterisation using SAR.…

Meet our PhD student Johannes Lohse

Johannes Lohse (29) started his PhD in CIRFA WP2 in January 2016, and will spend the next four years doing research on sea ice classification using SAR. Johannes, where do…

CIRFA seminar 29 April

CIRFA seminar Friday 29 April, 13:00-14:00, Forskningsparken 3, 3rd floor Introductions by Malin Johansson, Vahid Akbari and Laurent Ferro-Famil All welcome!   Abstracts: Very High Resolution Imaging of the Vertical Structure of Snowpack…

Guest lecture 13 May: Mark Barker and Brittany Zajic, NASA DEVELOP

Guest lecture Friday 13 May 2016, 10:30-11:00, auditorium 2.017 Technology building. Mark Barker and Brittany Zajic with NASA DEVELOP will visit the University of Tromsø to discuss their involvement with the program…

Workshop – WP7 Pilot Service demonstration

Date: 02.03.16 Time: 09-16 Location: KSAT Registration Originally WP7 was supposed to put together and demonstrate pilot services based on results from the other work packages. Since the start-up of…

CIRFA associated PhD position open for applicants

Arctic Ocean Technology and Law of the Sea Research (ATLAR) is currently recruiting PhD candidates for three positions, including one that will be associated to CIRFA. The full announcement and details…

Arctic Ocean Technology and Law of the Sea Research (ATLAR)

[caption id="attachment_51" align="alignleft" width="180"] Torbjørn Eltoft[/caption] CIRFA leader Professor Torbjørn Eltoft is associated to the new project Arctic Ocean Technology and Law of the Sea Research (ATLAR). This project aims…

CIRFA Newsletter 1-2016

  CIRFA Newsletter 1-2016 Tromsø 15.02.2016 Dear Partners, The sun has returned to Tromsø, and we are already in February. The beginning of 2016 has been hectic, but very positive…

First CIRFA PhD course in Radar Remote Sensing, January 2016

The first CIRFA organized PhD course took place at UiT from January 25-29th, 2016 and had an excellent turnout from PhD students, Master’s students, and researchers from the CIRFA partners.…