PYRN Norway
Welcome to the PYRN Norway group!
Welcome to the PYRN Norway group!
There are several projects in Norway these days focusing on permafrost and related topics, giving excellent opportunities for students as well as young researchers to take active part in ongoing research, for example as field or lab assistants. The purpose of the PYRN Norway group is to provide a link at the national level between students and young researchers employed in projects.
Ongoing research projects on permafrost and related phenomena include:
Thermal State of Permafrost in Norway and Svalbard (TSP-NORWAY, www.tspnorway.com),
and the related PYRN initiative PYRN-TSP (sign up also for this group),
CRYOSLOPE Svalbard (http://www.skred-svalbard.no/),
CRYOLINK (http://www.geo.uio.no/cryolink/index.html),
and certainly many other projects. Please add to this list!
Feel free to add posts on your permafrost-related activities. You can contribute to this group by posting blogs or comments (as well as files). To do so, simply comment on the existing blogs displayed in the groups. If you want to create a new blog post on a specific topic, go to "create content" or "my blog" and create a post.
Håvard
PYRN Norway is kindly sponsored by the TSP Norway project!
Giving on the work and leaving Longyearbyen..
So, Now, over a month since I left svalbard for this time, I finaly write again..
5 weeks permafrost nonstop!
Svalbard, University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) - 78°13`N 15° 38`E
what a hiking trail
Me, measureing the depth of an cracked ice wedges
Ice-Wedge Cracks on Svalbard – WOW!
Since 9 months I am living on Svalbard now, I saw the sun leaving and I saw the sun coming back but what I saw last week, I have never observed before!!!
500 members!
500! That’s the number of young permafrost researchers roaming the surface of the Earth and registered with the Permafrost Young Researchers Network on the 18th of March, 2008. 500 members who progressively enriched a network that started from nothing in November 2005. Back then, we were dreaming of a web-based mailing list devoted to permafrost were 40 or 50 young scientists and engineers could discuss permafrost issues and exchange the most recent news fon their research.
Increasing permafrost temperatures at Janssonhaugen, Svalbard
Permafrost temperatures in the Janssonhaugen borehole in Svalbard is increasing.
http://met.no/./?module=Articles;action=Article.publicShow;ID=761 (in Norwegian)
Borehole for permafrost temperature monitoring drilled at Longyearbyen school
A borehole for permafrost temperature monitoring was drilled at Longyearbyen school last week as part of the TSP-NORWAY project. A cold experience... See links below for more details:
http://www.unis.no/60_NEWS/6040_Archive_2008/n_08_03_03_tsp_drill/TSPdrillingnews03.03.2008.htm
www.tsp.norway.com under latest science news.
-Håvard
Working in the Polar Night (Resistivity measurements)
