ARCTOS network

Tre kronor, Svalbard, late September sunset ,Svalbard mountains © Marte Lundberg

• Assemble a public relations plan (regular contributions to the press, public contributions, present/popularize science in media, participation of reporters during research cruises etc.)
• Contact various oil and gas companies to introduce the network and suggest support for general and modeling studies
• Plan new advanced and international courses in marine Arctic ecology that are not covered by The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) and the norwegian College of Fishery Science (NCFS)
• Plan future joint applications in Arctic marine ecosystem research through channels such as RCN, EU, National Science Foundation (NSF, U.S.) by the ARCTOS network members
• Get icebreakers from Germany, Sweden, Canada or USA involved in heavily ice-covered waters of the northern Barents Sea and north Spitsbergen, eastern Greenland and the Fram Strait
• Promote annual marine ecological research investigations on Spitsbergen (Longyearbyen and Ny-Ålesund)
• Increased representation of network in national and international committees (e.g. IAPP, SBE, AOSB)
• Extend the cooperation with international research projects in the Arctic. For example:
  • Increase and develop the contacts with institutes in Denmark regarding research activities on Greenland, in particular between Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen and east Greenland
  • Continue and deepen the contacts with The Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAS) in Sopot (Poland), Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban (Scotland), Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study project (CASES) (Canada), The Western Arctic Shelf-Basin-Interactions project (SBI) (USA), Alfred Wegener Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (Bremerhaven, Germany), the Swedish Polar Office (e.g. participating in the Beringia expedition)
  • Continue cooperation with Russian partners and develop attractive and well-functioning new cooperative initiatives with Russia and other eastern countries
  • Obtain cooperation with the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo

ARCTOS day by day

• One yearly meeting on science
• Strategy meetings, 3-5 per year. Irregular meetings to discuss the strategy around application and policy towards NFR, EU, other funding agencies and the general research strategy
• BIO-8502 meetings, 1-2 meetings per month. The meetings are a forum for PhD, master students and the scientist, for the exchange of information, presentation of progress and to discuss problems. Managed by NCFS/NPI
• PhD-workshops, 2 per year. Workshops on "hot" topics that are important in science. 20-40 participants including international specialists
• ARCTIC FRONTIERS, annual conference in Tromsø