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The company conducts both teaching and scientific research. The original UNIS building opened in 1995. The new Svalbard Science Centre, designed by Jarmund/Vigsnæs architects, was officially opened on April 26, 2006, by the King and the Queen of Norway. [1] On September 2, 2009, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon visited ...
Location Control Carnegie Classification Enrollment (2022) [1] Founded [2] University of Alaska Anchorage: Anchorage: Public Master's university: 10,464 1954 University of Alaska Fairbanks: Fairbanks: Public Doctoral university: 6,607 1917 University of Alaska Southeast: Juneau: Public Master's university: 1,923 1972 Alaska Bible College ...
University Centre in Svalbard; S. Svalbard Museum This page was last edited on 15 December 2022, at 02:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
There are more than 150 members in the University of the Arctic. There are 45 members from Canada, 10 from Denmark, 1 from the Faroe Islands, 18 from Finland, 3 from Greenland, 10 from Iceland, 19 from Norway, 55 from Russia, 7 from Sweden, 26 from the United States and 60 from non-Arctic countries (Australia (1), Austria (1), Czech Republic (1), China (16), France (3), Germany (1), India (5 ...
In Svalbard, people report a high level of satisfaction with their lives despite environmental challenges, but the complications of climate issues like permafrost thaw can leave some feeling ...
Andøya Space, Andøya, Svalbard Norway 1994 Arctic Yellow River Station: Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway China 2003 25 2 AWIPEV Arctic Research Station (Rabot/Jean Corbel Stations) Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway France Germany 2003/1963 40/<8 3 Barrow Observatory [3] Point Barrow, Alaska United States 1973 2 2
Ny-Ålesund is located on the north shore of Brøggerhalvøya, a peninsula of Oscar II Land on the island of Spitsbergen. The town is located on the southern shore of Kongsfjorden (literally "the King's Bay"), a bay on the west coast of Spitsbergen that connects to Forlandssundet of the Greenland Sea.
In the decade of the 2020s, Norway values its Svalbard fishing trade at about US$94 million annually. [19] The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) has 350 students and a permanent faculty of 40 professors and assistants and 120 guest lecturers. UNIS does not offer degrees, but instead offers semester courses in biology, physics and geology.