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University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) Arctic Biology Courses
The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is the world's northernmost institution for higher education and research, located in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen at 78°N. UNIS offers courses at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level in four fields: Arctic Biology, Arctic Geology, Arctic Geophysics and Arctic Technology. Thanks to location in the High Arctic, field classes are an important part of many courses, so students have an opportunity to experience the nature of Svalbard, not only to learn about it in the classroom.
Several courses focused on Terrestial Biology or Terrestial Ecollogy are tought at UNIS, including Arctic Terrestial Biology and Arctic Plant Ecology. For more information, please visit the UNIS webpage.
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Polar Ecology Course at the Centre for Polar Ecology, Czech Republic
Centre for Polar Ecology (CPE) is part of the Department of ecosystem biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. The main purpose of CPE is ensuring regular university courses of Polar Ecology and similar science topics. The second equally important purpose is the research itself, which is held in both biological sciences and Earth sciences.
CPE ensures the Polar eEcology Course consisting of both biological section and Earth sciences section. The course itself consists of 1 week intensive theoretical preparation in respective fields of interest and then especially 10 days field work on the station in Svalbard. The field base for the Polar Ecology Course is Petuniabukta station, located in the central part of Svalbard in the northernmost part of the Billefjorden, Isflorden in Petunia bay.
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Wood Anatomy in Arctic and Alpine Environments 2012 Course at WSL, Switzerland
The course is offered by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL.
The effect of global warming on arctic and alpine environments is more and more in focus of plant science and especially of dendrochronology. The anatomical structure of arctic and alpine plants as well as their structural variability caused by environmental changes is yet not well known. the aim of the course is to set a base line for future anatomical and dendroecological studies beyond forests.
The main focus is set on trees, shrubs, dwarf shrubs and herbs growing in the boreal and arctic, as well as in the subalpine and alpine zone of the northern Hemisphere.
