Update on RiS, Kings Bay booking and flights, new KB Terms and Conditions:

Read SSF article and KB Terms & Conditions

Marine Lab booking, Teisten booking (current bookings can be found at bottom of those pages)

About Freight:

• Alternative transport possibilities Longyearbyen - Ny-Aalesund
  SIOS offers support for additional freight transport. (AWI is a SIOS member)
• AWI Container shipments to Ny-Aalesund:
  1. AWI Container
  
  • Arrival Ny-Aalesund: 7. April 
  • Contact Silke Henkel  
  • Nordbjorn schedule   
• 2. AWI Container:
  • Delivery deadline Bremerhaven: 29. March 
  • Arrival Ny-Aalesund: ca.  22. May
  • Contact Silke Henkel  
  • Nordbjorn schedule   
    
    
• Transport offer by Polish Academy of Sciences (IGF-PAS) from Poland to Spitsbergen, including offer of transport from LYR to Ny-Aalesund.
  Offer is free for SIOS member institutes (like AWI), see SIOS web site. 
  Deadline for application: 20. Feb. 2019

 AWIPEV one day introductory seminar 2019

• Climate in Svalbard 2100 (pdf in English)
  www.klimaservicesenter.no
  
  
• First SESS Report:
  The State of the Environmental Science in Svalbard
  (SIOS)

SIOS Polar Night Week 14. - 18. Jan. 2019

Goldschmidt2019 conference on Geochemistry, 18.-23. Aug. 2019

Svalbard Science Conference 2019, 5.-6. Nov., Oslo

The calls for proposals to use AWIPEV Base in 2019 are open: 

• Appels à projets scientifique Terrestre (IPEV) 
  Deadline: 10. Sept. 2018
  
  
• Call for proposals (AWI)
  Deadline: 30 Sept. 2018

Combined proposals from France and Germany will be prioritized.
For questions please contact management (at) awipev.eu

The satellite receiving station of Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam (GFZ) in Ny-Aalesund is receiving data streams from the recently launched GRACE-FO satellite, as explained in this interview with C. Falck, GFZ. 

• AWIPEV Science Introduction Seminar 2018:
  7. Feb. 2018, 
  Seminar-Programme
• AWIPEV Logistics Introduction:
  Information-Presentation 2018
  Info-Handout to Projects 
  Kings Bay's hints to use RiS
  Frozen samples handling & transportation recommendations
  
• AWI weapon handling
  
   

• Transportation:

• First containers:
  Deadline for packing lists and freight list to logistics: 01.03.2018
  Deadline for delivery in Bremerhaven: 05.03.2018
  
  Deadline for delivery in Brest: 12.03.2018
  
  Scheduled arrival date in NYA: 10.04.2018
  
  Second AWI container:
• Deadline for packing lists and freight list to logistics: 14.05.2018 
  Deadline for delivery in Bremerhaven: 17.05.2018 
  
  Scheduled arrival date in NYA: 03.07.2018 

• See here for AWI freight handling details

Please contact Silke Henkel (AWI) or Isabelle Thepaud (IPEV) for further information.

A new call is open from the German DFG and the French ANR for proposals for joint bilateral research projects in Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering Sciences:

http://www.dfg.de/en/dfg_profile/international_cooperation/international_context/partner_organisations/france/anr_nle/ 

Deadline for proposals is 10. January 2018

The French Ambassador to Norway, Jean-François Dobelle, visited AWIPEV base 3. - 6. July. For further information on the visit see

IPEV news (in French)

New call for proposals to use AWIPEV Base:

French applications until 11. Sept. 2017

German applications until 30. Sept. 2017

Dutch applications

SIOS Access to be announced 1. Aug. 2017

SSF Arctic Field Grants announcement pending, expected deadline in October 2017

• Freight list and packing lists to be delivered to AWI Logistics by 31. May. 2017
• Deadline for delivery of goods to Hafenlager in Bremerhaven: 8. June 2017
• Expected arrival in Ny-Ålesund: 19. July  2017

The 2017 AWIPEV Science Introductory Seminar will convene at 

IPEV, Ifremer Campus : Technopole Brest Iroise PLOUZANE

on

20. Feb., 13:30  until
21. Feb., 16:00

For participation, Please fill out this questionaire and return it to Catherine Etienne, IPEV before 30. Jan. 2017

You should also register yourself via doodle, as informed by e-mail.
For details please contact Pascal Morin (IPEV) or Roland Neuber (AWI).

Practical information is provided here.

The annual AWIPEV logistics meeting and Polar Bear Protection Course ("shooting course"):
is planned for

26. January 2017 09:15              Introduction to AWIPEV logistics and expedition preparation
26. January 2017 afternoon:     Polar Bear Protection course (theory)
27. January 2017 all day:            Practical shooting training

Venue / meeting place:
AWI-Bremerhaven, Building D ("Wegener Haus"), Lecture Hall
for access see
https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/sites/bremerhaven.html

Infos see:
https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/logistics/information-for-expedition-participants/waffenhandhabung.html#c32335

If you plan to participate in the Polar bear protection course / shooting training,
please register with Uta Galemann <uta.galemann@awi.de>

The scientific introduction seminar will be announced later, time and venue tbd.

An international team of marine biologists and ecosystem specialists has published two Special Issues of Polar Biology on the Ecosystem Kongsfjorden: New Views after more than a Decade of Research. 

Klimawandel aendert das Leben im Kongsfjord (auf Deutsch)

Research papers of the Kongsfjorden Ecosystem Workshop 2014 (in English)

The volumes are published by Springer:

• Special Issue on Ecosystem Kongsfjorden: New Views after more than a Decade of Research (Part 1)
• Special Issue on Ecosystem Kongsfjorden: New Views after more than a Decade of Research (Part 2) 

First container from Bremerhaven to Ny-Aalesund:

• Deadline for delivery in Bremerhaven: 22. Feb. 2017
  (Paperwork due 16. Feb. 2017)

• Expected arrival in Ny-Aalesund: 5. April 2017

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2017 will host a rich list of scientific sessions, where results from work at AWIPEV base and from Ny-Aalesund can be presented to an interdisciplinary audience. 

Deadline for abstract submission is 16 December 2016.

See list of scientific sessions.

The Under Water Observatory (UWO) in Ny-Aalesund is featured in this prime time NRK news, reporting of the observation of the warming Kongsfjord. 

(In Norwegian only) https://www.nrk.no/troms/rekordvarmt-i-svalbard-fjord-1.13197171

Read more about the UWO here.

Mme Ségolène Royal, French Minister for the Environment, visited AWIPEV Base 17. - 21. August, see

The French Minister for the Environment, Energy, and the Sea (in French)

IPEV news (in French)

Le Monde (in French)

on 10th August 1991 the German Arctic research station was officially opened, which in 2003 merged with the French station into the joint AWIPEV Base of today. Read more about the (hi)story here. 

The German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks visited AWIPEV base last week. Infos about her visit can be found on these web sites:

AWI 

German Federal Ministry for the Environment

The Netherlands Arctic Station

Several of the Ny-Aalesund Flagship programmes are having meetings or workshops later this fall, 
you are invited to active participation with your Ny-Aalesund programme.

Atmosphere Flagship series of open work group meetings in October 

Kongsfjorden Ecosystem open workshop: Adaptation to environmental changes in the Arctic

Glaciology Research: NÅGLAMB – Ny-Ålesund GLAcier Mass Balance workshop in Oslo, Norway 

Following the AWIPEV Introductory Seminar 2016,

the following handouts have been prepared:

• Essential information handout
• Frozen samples handling & transportation
• Kings Bay's hints to use RiS

The stratosphere above Spitsbergen is currently extremely cold, which is a prerequisite for ozone loss there. Find news at AWI and Science, find daily temperatures from AWIPEV here.

All freight lists have to arrive at least 3 working days in advance with

Silke.Henkel [at] awi.de.

The next joint French-German AWIPEV Introduction Seminar will take place

26. - 29. January 2016

including the AWI polar bear protection course and shooting training
28./29. Jan. 2016

Venue: AWI Bremerhaven, Building D

Contents:

• Introduction to the 2016 scientific projects at AWIPEV Base
  26. Jan., 14:00 - 18:00
  27. Jan., 10:00 - 17:00

• Introduction to base logistics and expedition preparation
  28. Jan., 9:30 
• Polar Bear Protection 14:30
  
  
• Practical shooting exercise
  29. Jan., 8:00

Detailed science talks agenda .

Logistics handout 2016 

An international workshop on

ATMOSPHERIC STUDIES IN THE ARCTIC

will take place in Sopot, Poland, 28-29 Jan. 2016.

The workshop intends to prepare and to coordinate field activities of atmospheric research on Svlabard in Spring 2016.

Please find the First Announcement here.

ANR and DFG have published a new call open to joint German-French research projects in all fields of the Natural, Life and Engineering Sciences including interdisciplinary research.

Deadline for proposal submissions is 2. Dec. 2015.

Information is given on the DFG Joint Call web site, by IPEV News, and through ANR for the "Projets franco-allemands (DFG)".

At the 2015 Ny-Aalesund Seminar the NySMAC secretariat launched the new NySMAC web site with lots of updated information, e.g. about the revived Ny-Aalesund Flagship Programmes.

8. July

During his stay in Ny-Ålesund, the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon and the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Børge Brende visited the AWIPEV base. They were informed about climate research and work at the base.

the next

Ny-Ålesund Seminar

will convene in Tromsoe, 23 - 25 September 2015

highlighting the Ny-Aalesund Flagship programmes,

including a dedicated Atmosphere Flagship Symposium

Deadline for Abstracts: 15. June 2015

All info in the 2nd Circular or here.

The German Federal Minister of Education and Research, Prof. Wanka, visited Ny-Aalesund and the AWIPEV Base 8. - 10. April 2015:

at www.awi.de (in German)

at http://www.bmbf.de/de/26735.php (in German)

Photos from the solar eclipse at Ny Ålesund can be found in our gallery

• AWIPEV Introductory Seminar and Polar Bear Safety Course
  25 - 27 Feb. 2015
  Please register with uta.galemann@awi.de  until 12. Feb. 2015
  
  
• Kings Bay's Marine Lab registration:
  Deadline is 1. April 2015
  
  
• Kings Bay's boat Teisten:
  Deadline for usage in 2015 is 1. April 2015

 News item about the Marine Night project Jan./Feb. 2015 at the
Helmholtz Arktis Blog (in english).

A workshop for scientists interested in atmospheric research in Ny-Ålesund and how to link with other sites at Svalbard and beyond is planned for October 2014.
The SSF funded workshop contributes to the Flagship activities within the Ny-Ålesund Science Plan.

For more info visit the workshop web site or contact Roland Neuber