News

The article "The Arctic Permafrost Vulnerability Index" co-authored by Joan Nymand Larsen has just been published in Sustainability.

The annual Sustainability Conference at the University of Akureyri will be held on April 11. For the first time, the Stefansson Arctic Institute will co-host the event.

Tom Barry's paper on the conservation and restoration of Icelandic wetlands has just been published in the journal Wetlands.

The article "Seaweed Kombucha: Exploring innovation in marine resources in Iceland" by Martyn Jones, Catherine Chambers, and Peter Krost has just been published in the International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science.

The Stefansson Arctic Institute and the University of Akureyri are seeking to support candidates to apply for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships within defined thematic research areas.

At the beginning of 2025, the Stefansson Arctic Institute merged with the University of Akureyri. The merger took effect on January 1, 2025.

The article "Mortality drives production dynamics of Atlantic cod through 1100 years of commercial fishing" has been published in Science Advances.

The article “A transdisciplinary, comparative analysis reveals key risks from Arctic permafrost thaw” was published today in Nature: Communications, Earth and Environment.

Thursday January 16th at 11:30 GMT Dr. Catherine Chambers (Stefansson Arctic Institute - University of Akureyri & University Centre of the Westfjords) will deliver a lecture titled Human Dimension of Icelandic Small-Scale Fisheries at the Scottish Association for Marine Science and on Teams.