The Arctic Sustainability Lab

Kick-off meeting of project. The Arctic Sustainability Lab, UiT Norges arktiske universitet and other national and international partners come together to accelerate the delivery of EU´s 2030 targets for protecting and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity within the European ocean and seas, in line with the EU biodiversity strategy 2030 and European Green deal.

19 partners across Europe share the same vision for a better tomorrow.

Gratulerer med dagen

The Arctic Sustainability Lab presents today the first results of WP1 of the CoastShift project.

If you are at the Arctic Frontiers, come and engage in a discussion about the future of the blue food systems in North Norway.

Exciting Opportunity Alert!

🌟 We're looking for a talented researcher to join our team in a postdoctoral position focusing on AI, Big Data, and Sustainability. Kickstart your career with one of Europe's top research groups at the Arctic Sustainability Lab, UiT Norges arktiske universitet.

🔍 Position Details:
Two-stage application process
First deadline: Feb 16, 2024
Second stage: MSCA-PF application in Sep 2024

Interested in shaping the future of sustainability with cutting-edge research? Let's discuss your ideas! 🚀 Contact Tamer Abu-Alam at [email protected] or send a direct message.

For more info, visit: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/186307

Please spread the word to potential candidates! 📢

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/186307

Last week the Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Policy, Bjørnar Skjæran, visited Karsløy where we presented our work with the AA_Agora project. We are glad that they found the project to be exiting and interesting and had a good discussion with them about the project and what we are trying to accomplish in Karlsøy in collaboration with the municipality and other stakeholders.

Are you interested to learn more about the project?

Check out our website with more information about this and other projects our lab is working with!
https://arcticsustainability.com/2023/01/05/atlantic-arctic-agora/

We are hiring:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ecology and Sustainability

Join us at The Arctic Sustainability Lab, UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, a unique place to work and live.

Application deadline: August 1st, 2023

For more information:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ecology and Sustainability (245737) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ecology and Sustainability (245737), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Tuesday, August 1, 2023

This summer we worked together with Helsinki University and Museum Nord -organizing an Art-Science workshop😊

The Arctic Sustainability Lab has the pleasure to contribute to the newly published map of the indigenous languages in the Arctic region. This map represents a significant milestone in understanding the valuable contribution of Indigenous people and their knowledge to our society. Many thanks to Nordström and the international team for this incredible opportunity.

The labs role was compiling the database using ArcGIS.

Read more about the project: https://arctic-indigenous-languages-uito.hub.arcgis.com/

Have a look at the interactive online map: https://arcg.is/1yvqm9
Thanks to the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat for this initiative!

A new paper is out exploring how eco-tourism can contribute to nature-based solutions, conservation and Ocean literacy.

View the article here: https://uit.no/tmu/art?p_document_id=407608&fbclid=IwAR2vWfvrONJLenYAmhI76eNAdYHZb-60grkeSaBJ6297KwMIQVfSuc13wA0

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Vera Helene Hausner presented our work in AA_Agora on creating transformative living labs for ecosystem-based management at the Atlantic Innovation Week. Here from the panel debate in the session on Healthy Oceans, Seas and Coasts, debating how we can achieve sustainability in the Arctic and Atlantic region.

Who should own the fish?

With the sea and fish setting the scene and being the main pillar for coastal communities, we travelled out to Vannøya to present the value and possibilities that lie along these coastal 🐟🌿🌊

We presented how nature-based solutions, co-creation, local engagement and knowledge, and the work we are doing right here within the Karlsøy Arctic Archipelago, can be a lighthouse and inspiration for other Arctic communities and regions💙

View the page for more info: www.a-aagora.no ❤️

Photos: Ann Eileen Lennert & Kjerstin Andrea Mæland

Karlsøy kommune UiT The Arctic University of Norway

We're thrilled to announce that Cloudearthi, our project aimed at building innovation capacity at HEIs for using big data to promote environmental sustainability, circular economy, and net-zero, has won the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Award!

Led by The Arctic Sustainability Lab, this project is paving the way for a more sustainable future, and we're honored to be recognized for our efforts. Thank you to everyone involved in making CloudEARTHi a success!

Do you know someone interested in sustainability, blue food systems, and transformative change?

Perhaps they would like a fully paid PhD position to work on the topic?

Applications are now open for this exciting opportunity to work with this fantastic group of people ✌️🙌😊

PhD Fellow in Transformative Change for Sustainable Blue Food Systems (236699) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway Job title: PhD Fellow in Transformative Change for Sustainable Blue Food Systems (236699), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Thursday, February 23, 2023

Do you want to join our fantastic group?

Does employing a living lab approach where we jointly identifing solutions and measures together with tourism companies, managers, organizations, schools and citizens. -And ecosystem-based management and monitoring of protected areas in a Norwegian Arctic Archipelago sound interesting?

Well here is your chance of working with co-design of ecosystem-based management and monitoring of the protected areas. Thus contributing to implementing a plan for ecosystem-based and climate-resilient management, including nature-based tourism!

PhD Fellow in ecosystem-based management (237218) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway Job title: PhD Fellow in ecosystem-based management (237218), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Sunday, February 5, 2023

We are so proud to be contributing to this work and having researchers in this lab contributing to the research done identifying factors driving climate changes, their impacts and risks and the ways in which adaptation and mitigation may reduce these risks, as well as improving the interface between scientific knowledge and political decision-makers on questions around biodiversity, the protection of ecosystems, human wellbeing, and sustainability.

IPBES and the IPCC stand out in highlighting the relationship between science, climate, biodiversity and society, representing the best that is done in this field all around the world. The jury recognising these two organisations serving to emphasise the need to look at the climate crisis and biodiversity in conjunction, with concerted approaches making recourse to nature-based solutions.🙌

Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity 2022 winners announced The Prize jury distinguished, ex-aequo, two intergovernmental organisations that produce scientific knowledge, alert society, and inform decision-makers to make better choices for combatting climate change and the loss of biodiversity: IPBES and IPCC.

Want to join our lab? We have a post doc position available 🙌

The candidate is expected to participate actively in research, teaching and management of the Arctic Sustainability Lab, and will develop a unique competence in integrated systems research for coastal ecology and sustainability. The candidate should work with task relevant for AA_Agora. AA_Agora is an EU Horizon Europe project linked to the lighthouse for the management and restoration of coastal ecosystems in the Arctic-Atlantic basin. The project will establish three "transformative hubs" in Portugal, Ireland and Norway aiming to develop and implement nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based monitoring and management in close collaboration with the local community. The postdoctoral position will work with socio-ecological systems taking special responsibility for the synthesis and analysis of spatial datasets related to climate, ecosystems and society.

The candidate will also participate actively in research activities linked to the co-production of knowledge and solutions together with various social actors. The candidate will collaborate and create synergies with other projects in the Arctic Sustainability Lab, including the EU Horizon Europe project GreenFeedBack where our team have the responsibility of developing arctic human footprint maps for nature-based climate solutions, and CoastShift which is funded by the FRAM center and that are developing sustainability indicators and scenarios for coastal areas.

Sounds cool? Apply here! https://www.euraxess.no/no/node/845234

The Arctic Sustainability Lab contributed to two days of discussion of the different green shift and blue growth scenarios which may be applied to the coastal regions of North Norway. The discussion is part of Coastshift project. All the team of the coastshift is looking forward to the next step of the project.

Climate change is not only negative, it can also create unique opportunities. To seize these opportunities, we must be open, welcoming and learn from each other across research, disciplines, industry, society and cultures!

So how can climate change be used for something positive that is sustainable and what opportunities can climate change acutally bring?

In a field course in Greenland this summer, students will learn about the consequences of climate change, but also the positive opportunities they create.

https://uit.no/nyheter/artikkel?p_document_id=777552

Want to work in the Arctic Sustainability Lab? Here is the chance!

The PhD fellow will be a part of the team working with the objectives of WP2 to identify the climate footprint of human activity and design a tool to reduce the overall pressures on land, freshwater and marine ecosystems along with users. The project is pan-Arctic with cases in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Greenland, and Canada. The PhD will primarily work with nature-based climate solutions in the coastal areas of the Arctic.

The task includes development of methodologies to link pressures to emissions by developing human footprint maps, so that nature-based solutions can be identified and discussed at co-design workshops. In GreenFeedBack, a tool will be created to reduce the pressures that causes climate emissions, but in the PhD project it is also desirable that protection and restoration of ecosystems is included to enhance resilience and adaptation to climate change.

View the position here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/227695/phd-fellow-in-naturebased-climate-solutions

For a short intro to the project look here: https://arcticsustainability.com/2022/06/16/greenfeedback/

Photos: Maria Vojtovicova, Tom Barrett, Thomas Bjornstad and Annie Spratt

We are in Lund, Sweden working together with the great ABS network.

The ABS is a network of 16 Nordic and Baltic universities cooperating in environmental education and connecting students and teachers accross the fields of physics, chemistry, meteorology, biology, and geosciences. Our emphasis is on multidisciplinary, quality education.

Our role is to get a more Sustainability Science perspective, add a human dimension to the work and innovatively contribute, share and build knowledge for sustainable transitions in the Arctic.

https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/abs/

During this years Arctic Frontiers, The Arctic Sustainability Lab presented how monitoring for science and society can be approached by a co-production and putting knowledge together in connection with the project and in collaboration with Knowledge Centre.

SIOS and SVALUR connect naturally because of their focus on environmental monitoring. Where SIOS brings together researchers and their data, SVALUR gathers personal accounts of environmental change in Svalbard and their meanings.

Our common goal is to understand, observe and communicate environmental changes in Svalbard and to preserve data and narratives for the future.

Together we set out to find ways in which personal experiences and narratives can enrich or contextualize environmental monitoring.
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Participatory mapping, local engagement and interviews can actually be done in a format that makes consultations, workshops and focus groups more fun and accessoble. Students of our course "BIO 3004 Ecosystem-based Management" are being taught on how to do so using tools such as Streamline. Its all about finding fun and engaging ways on sharing knowledge, insights and perceptions!

Curious about the Streamline tool -look here: https://www.streamline-research.com/