Svalbard Research
Academic studies with Svalbard as their subject. 753 studies since January 2025.
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A large scale crisis: The Hopen accident and the struggle against the Soviet autonomy on Svalbard
Examines the 1978 Hopen aircraft crisis and Norway's struggle with Soviet mining-town autonomy on Svalbard, showing how the governor's enforcement and NATO backing shaped the outcome.
“Wrestling mat” or “zone of mutual cooperation”? Contexts, concepts, and representations related to Svalbard in Russian media
Analyses how Russian federal media from 2010 to 2025 portray Svalbard as a natural environment and a contested geopolitical space, with Russia cast as a legitimate actor.
Gems wrought by blizzards: Denaturalizing the image in Susan Schuppli’s Not Planet Earth
Analyses Susan Schuppli's 2021 short film Not Planet Earth, shot during a circumnavigation of Spitsbergen, showing how its thermographic and glitched imagery visualises Arctic warming in Svalbard.
Svalbard, the State and Store Norske, 1916-1976
Traces how the Norwegian state and the private coal company Store Norske shaped Svalbard policy and Longyearbyen from 1916 to 1976, ending in nationalisation.
Communication across the Iron Curtain in Svalbard: Interpreters and multilinguals
This article examines how people communicated across languages in Svalbard during the Cold War, when Norwegian and Soviet officials and villages depended on ad hoc and later permanent interpreters.
Russian Journalists on Svalbard in the 1930s
The article reconstructs everyday community life in Svalbard mining settlements in the mid-1930s, centring on Barentsburg, using little-known multilingual press and archive material read through close microhistorical observation.
Capturing the midnight sun: Ernst Herrmann’s film and photography of Svalbard in the 1930s
Examines German geographer Ernst Herrmann's 1930s colour film and photographs of Svalbard, their role in polar imaginaries, and proposes rephotography to track landscape change.
Svalbard Studies III: An article collection to mark the 100th anniversary of the Svalbard Treaty’s commencement
Russia and Norway on Svalbard in Russian Media: Morphosyntax and the Construction of Arctic Actors
Analyses how Russian newspaper Rossijskaja Gazeta portrayed Russia and Norway over Svalbard in 2022–2025 using grammatical case patterns, casting Norway as the authority and Russia as a reactive actor.
Ruins in the Field: Materiality, Spectres and Pluritemporal Encounters of the Oxford University Arctic Expedition
Examines how ruins and spectral traces left by the 1924 Oxford University Arctic Expedition in Svalbard shaped later exploration narratives and (post)colonial research practices.
Systematic Risk Governance in Longyearbyen: Community Inclusion in the Energy Transition Process
A Heterotopia in a Space-Time Warp: (Re)programming Popular Memory in Two Russian Films about Svalbard
This article examines two Russian films by Mikhail Malakhov Jr. about a late nineteenth-century Russo-Swedish expedition to Svalbard, asking how they distort both the expedition and later commemorative journeys that retraced it.
Desecuritizing Svalbard: the limits of expertise
Når isbjørnen puster deg i ansiktet
Analyses how two children's novels set in Svalbard, Operasjon Arktis and The Last Bear, use the Arctic environment and polar bear encounters as rites of passage shaping young protagonists' agency.
Exploring Spitsbergen’s Potential for Sustainable Development and Geopark Creation
Interviews and a survey of 104 residents and tourists find broad support for a Svalbard geopark, alongside concerns about commercialisation, overtourism, and cruise pressure on infrastructure.
Eine @Reise nach Spitzbergen :
“They can smell the ‘short-termness’ on you”. Student learning and sense of belonging in the Arctic
Qualitative interviews and focus groups with UNIS students and staff find that field-based learning and close bonds support belonging, while isolation and limited mental-health services create well-being vulnerabilities.
Scientific Research as Geopolitical Practice: Innovation, Diplomacy, Subversion
Examines how Chinese and Russian research in Svalbard from 2020 to 2024 operates as geopolitical practice blending national interest, science diplomacy and hybrid-warfare dynamics.
From Policy to Participation: How Trust and Communication Shape Climate Resilience in Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Qualitative interviews show how top-down decisions and unclear communication eroded trust in Longyearbyen's energy transition, and how later participation efforts only partly repaired it.
The Svalbard Archipelago as an Object of Geopolitical Competition in the Arctic. On the Treaty's Centenary
Analyses how Svalbard's legal, political and strategic status under the 1925 Treaty is shifting amid Norway-Russia rivalry, NATO militarisation, China's research presence, and Arctic Council suspension.
Anthropogenic Hotspots and Wild Vertebrates Shape Microsporidian Diversity and Zoonotic Risk in a Rapidly Warming High Arctic
The evolution of Russia’s civilian presence on Svalbard: soft power in the Arctic
Examines how Russia maintains its civilian presence on Svalbard through tourism and scientific cooperation as soft power, amid economic constraints and Norwegian policy.
СВЯЗЬ ПСИХОФИЗИОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ И ГЕОКОСМИЧЕСКИХ ПОКАЗАТЕЛЕЙ В ЭКСТРЕМАЛЬНЫХ УСЛОВИЯХ ВАХТОВОЙ РАБОТЫ НА АРХИПЕЛАГЕ ШПИЦБЕРГЕН
Study of rotational workers on Svalbard finds correlations between psychophysiological indicators and geocosmic factors such as solar activity and cosmic rays, with worse readings during moderate geomagnetic activity.
Barentsburg: Caught Between Worlds
Photographer Susan Schulman reported from Barentsburg in February 2026, documenting how the Russo-Ukrainian war has shaped daily life for Ukrainian and Russian residents there.
Weefsel van walvisvaarders:Over leven en dood op Spitsbergen
Feeling a chill
Svalbard has become a key Arctic science outpost, but geopolitical tensions are complicating research there, according to a Science news article.
New data on the manifestation of Baikalian (Timanian) tectono-magmatic activation on West Spitsbergen Island
Describes the Vendian-age Trollheimen volcanogenic formation in Oscar II Land, West Spitsbergen, linking it to Baikalian-Timanian rifting and tectono-magmatic activity in the basement.
Is there enough trust for a low carbon transition in the Arctic? Exploring public expectations for renewable energy in Longyearbyen
Survey of Longyearbyen residents identifies five public expectation profiles for the renewable energy transition, linking them to institutional trust, energy citizenship, nature identity and climate denialism.
Research Potentials in Svalbard Archaeology
Using well-preserved bones and textiles from a seventeenth-century whaler graveyard at Likneset, the study showed that Svalbard's post-medieval remains have substantial research value despite recent neglect and climate threats.
Skeletons in the permafrost: Exploring climate-driven heritage loss and occupational health at the early modern whaling burial site of Likneset, Svalbard
Study of the early modern whaling burial site at Likneset, Svalbard, finding that permafrost warming and erosion are degrading graves and that the skeletons show heavy physical strain and nutritional stress.
“IN COMMEMORATION OF THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE DEGREE MEASUREMENT AT SVALBARD...”: ON THE HISTORY OF THE AWARD BADGE OF THE RUSSIAN-SWEDISH EXPEDITION OF 1899–1901
Traces the history of the commemorative badge awarded for the 1899–1901 Russian-Swedish Spitsbergen degree measurement expedition, using archival records and one navigator's collection.
Hyperconnected remoteness: the Svalbard airport and community transitions in Longyearbyen
Ethnographic and historical study of how Svalbard Airport has shaped remoteness, connectivity, transitions from coal mining to tourism and research, and everyday life in Longyearbyen.
Prawne, prawnokarne i kryminologiczne aspekty ochrony środowiska naturalnego na Svalbardzie. Stan obecny i perspektywy na przyszłość
This article outlines Svalbard's multi-layered nature protection, examines whether its laws aim to punish environmental offenders, and reviews recent crime trends and legislative responses to climate change and tourism.
Saving Svalbard?
This thesis treated value as an ongoing practice rather than a fixed thing, tracing how conservation and everyday care in Svalbard shaped what people counted as worth protecting.
Organizacja i funkcjonowanie samorządu Svalbardu wobec wyzwań współczesnego świata
Analyzes Svalbard's unique dependent-territory status, its origins under Norway, the roles of local and central government, Norwegian policy, and contemporary challenges to the archipelago's status.
Documenting an isolated and high-priority Arctic cultural heritage site: case study from Kapp Pettersen, Svenskøya, Svalbard
Documents an isolated historic hut at Kapp Pettersen on Svenskøya using drone and ground photography, finding shoreline retreat of 0.42 m/yr from coastal erosion and permafrost processes.
3 Sentrale rettslige rammer og utgangspunkter
This chapter covers the legal frame for state decisions on Svalbard that affect children, including the Svalbardtraktaten, human rights protections and the principle of the child's best interests.
9 Særlig om videregående opplæring og høyere utdanning
The chapter found that the local council in Longyearbyen may choose whether to offer upper secondary schooling, but non-discrimination rules apply if it does.
Svalbard, barn og rettigheter
A legal book examining how children's rights apply on Svalbard, where the legal situation differs from mainland Norway and varies between groups of children.
15 Avslutning – et komplisert bilde
Concluding chapter of a book on children's legal rights in Svalbard, arguing the situation in Longyearbyen and Barentsburg is complex and largely overlooked in national child-rights policy.
5 De overordnede målene for svalbardpolitikken og varslede tiltak i siste stortingsmelding om Svalbard
This chapter examines how Svalbard's family-community policy in the government's latest white paper affects children, using youth surveys and a statistics study.
11 Helse
This chapter reviews which parts of the main health legislation apply on Svalbard, where rules are scattered and hard to find, and discusses mental health services for children there.
7 Retten til utdanning
This chapter examines the right to education on Svalbard, its historical development, Longyearbyen school in 2025, and how human rights and national rules shape it.
14 Barnevern og sosiale tjenester
The study found that child welfare measures can reach children staying on Svalbard, while foster homes and institutions cannot be set up there.
13 Forholdet mellom barn og foreldre – særegne utfordringer
This chapter covers the law governing relationships between parents and children on Svalbard, focusing on conflict and crisis situations, along with family counselling offices and crisis centre protection.
4 Svalbardloven og lovgivningssystemet som gjelder for Svalbard
This chapter examines Svalbard's complex legal system, the new child rights assessments tied to investigation instructions, and which laws apply outside Longyearbyen.
10 Barnehageloven
The chapter examines childcare law on Svalbard against mainland rules and found no individual right to a place and no priority for children with disabilities.
2 Kort historisk tilbakeblikk
This chapter sets Longyearbyen's community, shaped by its history and legal foundations, within a wider context, tracing how family and welfare services and children's rights have developed over 100 years.
8 Avgrenset rett til individuell tilrettelegging i grunnskoleopplæring i Longyearbyen
Legal analysis of how Longyearbyen's compulsory schooling restricts the right to individually adapted instruction and whether those limits meet human rights protections.
12 Trygderettigheter med hovedvekt på barnetrygd
This chapter maps how insurance membership shapes children's child benefit on Svalbard, comparing it with Fastlands-Norge and differences between groups there.
Svalbard in the Norwegian Press Imagination
Digital humanities and discourse analysis of how Norwegian newspapers from the 1920s to 1940s portrayed Svalbard as part of the nation, using circumpolar, territorial and regional imaginaries.
Sharing Is Caring?—Pathogens and Pathogen‐Specific Antibodies in Arctic Endemic Seal Species and the Newly Sympatric Harbor Seals in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard
Screened ringed, bearded and newly arrived harbour seals in Kongsfjorden for viruses, bacteria and Toxoplasma, finding shared exposure and possible pathogen transmission between species.
Taxonomic position and palaeoecology of Palaeoaplysina: insights from the lower Permian (Asselian) of Svalbard
Arctic science and tourism in Svalbard - two sides of the same coin?
Examines how science and tourism in Svalbard share exploration roots and co-evolve through settlements, logistics, shared interests, and regulation, arguing they are interdependent.
The Beginnings of International Nature Conservation Law with the Svalbard (Spitsbergen) Treaty of 1920
This article examines how Article 2 of the 1920 Svalbard Treaty, in force from 1925, grew out of earlier expert efforts in Germany and Sweden to protect Arctic nature.
Ambiguity in the Arctic: the geopolitics of bases on Svalbard in the first half of the twentieth century
Svalbard’s Deterrence Gap
Russia's bastion defence and its framing of Svalbard as a contested frontier could make military confrontation there more likely in a severe crisis.
Historický vývoj Longyearbyenu (Svalbard) v širším environmentálním kontextu
This bachelor's thesis traces how Longyearbyen, Svalbard's largest town, grew from a coal-mining settlement into a tourist destination and research centre, using historical maps and photographs.
When regulation meets practice : Local cruise operators’ experiences of environmental regulation in Svalbard
Isens herrar, mellanhänder och drängar : en studie om klassmedvetandet och dess föränderlighet under expeditioner till Svalbard runt sekelskiftet 1900
Analyses class consciousness of two Swedish expedition members, Axel Stake and Frans Oscar Carlson, in diaries from Svalbard expeditions around 1900, showing how their class views shifted.
Experiencing the Arctic in the Little Ice Age: The Pioneering Account of Friderich Martens (1635–1699)
This article examines Friderich Martens, whose travel account of Spitzbergen and Greenland offered a systematic early scientific survey of Arctic ice, snow, climate and wildlife during the Little Ice Age.
From Space to Place
Examines the 1926 Norge Expedition's transpolar flight from Svalbard as cultural heritage, tracing how its mooring mast, Amundsen Villa and film footage shape local identity and Arctic imaginary.
Equal-Access Extraction: Necessary Revisions to the Extent of the 1920 Svalbard Treaty Due to Norway's Deep-Sea Mining Decision
Argues that the 1920 Svalbard Treaty should be renegotiated to clarify its geographic scope over maritime zones, such as those relevant to Norway's deep-sea mining decision, and proposes draft language.
Dilemmas of the local community towards tourism in Spitsbergen
Residents of Spitsbergen face dilemmas from tourism, including housing shortages, low pay for foreign workers, and disputes among tourism firms, Norwegian authorities, and locals, and they broadly agree that all parties must cooperate.
International law in Arctic waters: Disputes over catching snow crab in Svalbard in the broader context of the exploration of natural resources
2. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Agrobiodiversity Conservation in Social- Scientific Research
3. Exploring the Naturalcultural History and Politics of Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault
Constructing the Survival Story on Edge Island in Oral Narratives by Residents of Mezen
Oral accounts gathered in 2022 from Mezen residents show that the story of four fishermen stranded on Edge Island has survived chiefly among cultural and educational workers, while others have forgotten it or replaced it.
Dwelling Notes
An artist reflects on long-term filmmaking research in Svalbard, using live editing to resist idealising portrayals of the Arctic and to foreground collaborative, situated knowledge.
Equal rights or exclusive control? The Svalbard Treaty in the age of change
Analyses whether the Svalbard Treaty's equal-rights provisions apply beyond the territorial sea, covering oil and gas, snow crab and Norway's jurisdiction, in light of a Norwegian Supreme Court ruling.
Contesting Arctic Frontiers: Svalbard's Treaty and the Geopolitics of the Northern Sea Route
Examines how the 1920 Svalbard Treaty's equal-rights and demilitarisation provisions are being contested amid Russia's Northern Sea Route development and Arctic militarisation.
Svalbard's Geopolitical Axis: Northern Sea Route Futures and Arctic Sovereignty Contestation
Analyses how the 1920 Svalbard Treaty, Northern Sea Route prospects, and competing Arctic sovereignty claims shape geopolitical tensions and governance around the archipelago.
The Svalbard Paradox: Sovereign Ambition and International Governance in the Northern Sea Route Era
Analyses the tension between Norway's sovereignty over Svalbard and the non-discriminatory rights of Svalbard Treaty signatories, especially as Northern Sea Route traffic grows.
Svalbard's Crucible: The Northern Sea Route and the Geopolitics of Arctic Territorial Reconfiguration
Critical geopolitical analysis of how growing Northern Sea Route traffic challenges Svalbard's 1920 treaty regime and could reshape territorial and security dynamics around the archipelago.
Svalbard's Geopolitical Stress Test: Northern Sea Route Expansion and the Shifting Architecture of Arctic Sovereignty
Analyses how growing Northern Sea Route traffic and great power competition may strain the 1920 Svalbard Treaty's sovereignty, demilitarisation and equal-access provisions, arguing for policy reassessment.
The Svalbard Crucible: Testing Treaty Diplomacy Against Northern Sea Route Statecraft in a Warming Arctic
Analyses how the 1920 Svalbard Treaty's non-discriminatory regime interacts with Russian unilateral claims over the Northern Sea Route as the Arctic warms.
Svalbard's Paradox: Treaty Law, the Northern Sea Route, and the Redefinition of Arctic Maritime Geopolitics
Analyses how the 1920 Svalbard Treaty's principles interact with growing Northern Sea Route shipping interest, arguing Arctic maritime law needs re-evaluation.
Svalbard as a Geopolitical Crucible: Treaty Governance Under Strain in the Northern Sea Route Era
Examines how Northern Sea Route shipping and great power competition are testing the 1920 Svalbard Treaty's non-discrimination and military provisions, via literature and policy document analysis.
Svalbard's Strategic Paradox: Treaty Law and Maritime Power Projection in the Northern Sea Route Era
Examines the Svalbard Treaty of 1920 and how its non-discrimination and demilitarisation principles may be strained by growing Arctic maritime power projection and NSR traffic.
Svalbard's Geopolitical Crucible: Re-mapping Sovereignty and Access Along the Northern Sea Route
Critically assesses how the 1920 Svalbard Treaty's sovereignty and access provisions are being reinterpreted amid Arctic melt opening the Northern Sea Route and rising geopolitical competition.
The Svalbard Treaty's Geopolitical Fault Lines: Northern Sea Route Expansion and the Future of Arctic Sovereignty
Analyses how Northern Sea Route expansion and rising Arctic interest strain the 1920 Svalbard Treaty's sovereignty, resource, demilitarisation and cooperation provisions.
Questionnaires and acoustic measurements in summer season in Longyearbyen area
From Treaty to Thoroughfare: Svalbard's Geopolitical Paradox and the Emergent Arctic Maritime Order
Analyses how the 1920 Svalbard Treaty's equal-access principles are being tested by Norwegian sovereignty, Arctic shipping routes, resource competition and great-power interests.
The Svalbard Dilemma and the Northern Sea Route: Geopolitical Tectonics in the High Arctic.
Qualitative geopolitical analysis of how the Northern Sea Route's growing viability interacts with the 1920 Svalbard Treaty's sovereignty and equal-access provisions, arguing for stronger governance.
The Svalbard Anomaly: Geopolitical Calculus of the Northern Sea Route
Analyses how Svalbard's 1920 Treaty legal status and Norwegian sovereignty shape geopolitics, governance and security along the Northern Sea Route as Arctic ice melts.
Contested wilderness: The importance of narratives in shaping environmental and tourism governance under a changing climate in Svalbard, Norway
Interviews, workshops and policy analysis show how competing narratives of Svalbard's wilderness and future shape the conflict over proposed tourism and environmental regulation amendments in Longyearbyen.
Exploring the relationships between coastal vulnerability and socio-economic variables in the context of climate change using geoinformatics for the region of Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Combines coastal vulnerability and social vulnerability indices, using equal weights and AHP weighting, to assess Longyearbyen's coastline under climate change.
Anesthetic and analgesic management of Svalbard rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta hyperborea) undergoing experimental stereotaxic neurosurgery
Develops and tests an anesthetic and analgesic protocol for stereotaxic brain surgery in Svalbard rock ptarmigan, reporting feasibility, pain monitoring, and tracer placement accuracy.
Arktis im Wandel. Strategien der Sichtbarmachung der Gletscherschmelze bei Tyrone Martinsson und Julian Charrière
Tyrone Martinsson recreated historical photographs of Svalbard glaciers from identical viewpoints, revealing ice retreat, while Julian Charrière's sculptures worked with erratic boulders left by retreating glaciers.
The urgency to adopt the One Health framework for pollution and pandemic management in the Arctic: Svalbard as a case
The brief argues that Arctic decision-makers should adopt One Health thinking, linking people, animals and environments, illustrated through Svalbard's experience with contamination and infectious disease risks.
Advancing Sustainable Tourism in Svalbard by Assessing and Prioritizing Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs )
Svalbard in the Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Space
This work traces how Svalbard came to hold its special international legal status and reviews the archipelago's economic activities, enterprises, and promising sectors, using data from 2022 and 2023.
Unfreezing the past: near Pan-Svalbard assessment of cryospheric hazards to Arctic cultural heritage
Archipelago-wide assessment finds over half of Svalbard's protected cultural heritage sites are exposed to retrogressive thaw slumps and thermo-erosion gullies, with Nordenskiöld Land the highest-risk region.
Experience of compiling an archaeological collection in the Barentsburg Museum (Spitsbergen)
Describes how an archaeological collection of 16th–19th century artifacts (Pomor, whaling and Chichagov expedition finds) was compiled and displayed at the Pomor Museum in Barentsburg.
Contrôle social et construction identitaire en URSS post-stalinienne. Une socio-histoire des communautés soviétiques du Svalbard
‘None of Us Had Ever Seen the Midnight Sun Before’: History of the First Swedish Air Force Mission in the Arctic (1928)
A transnational history of the 1928 Swedish Air Force rescue mission to Svalbard that searched for the crashed airship Italia's survivors.
POPULARIZATION OF TERRITORIES THROUGH USER-GENERATED CONTENT: THE CASE OF THE ARCTIC
“The arctic on the menu”: Introducing local seafood on Svalbard
Explores whether invasive snow and red king crabs could support a local pot fishery feeding Svalbard restaurants and tourists, covering biology, regulation, and tourist interest.
On the value of being there: what ethnography can add to studies of Arctic (geo)politics
Argues for ethnographic methods in Arctic geopolitics research, drawing on the authors' fieldwork on political processes in Svalbard to show what immersive local study adds.
Exploring the relationships between coastal vulnerability and socio-economic variables in the context of climate change using geoinformatics for the region of Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Combines coastal vulnerability and social vulnerability indices for Longyearbyen, comparing equal weighting with AHP-derived weights to map integrated coastal risk under climate change.
Open Dynamic Stewardship
A philosophical book chapter using Svalbard as a lens to question territorial states and argue for open, dynamic forms of environmental stewardship under climate change.
Analysing lithological complexity in outcrop-scale seismic models of interbedded siliciclastics and carbonates from Svalbard
Uses digital outcrop models of Carboniferous to Triassic interbedded siliciclastic-carbonate strata from Spitsbergen and Bjørnøya to test seismic detectability of thin beds, faults and karst.
Putting brakes on Expedition Cruise Tourism in Svalbard: exercising power at the expense of legitimacy?
создании карты объектов российского наследия архипелага Шпицберген: постановка вопроса
Argues for creating a map of Russian cultural heritage on Svalbard, covering Pomor sites, Russian enterprise and research sites, expedition routes, memorials and Russian place names.
Securitization of scientific cooperation: The case of the Arctic
(Re)Making Svalbard’s Marble Island: Marketing the Sublime and Mythologising the More-Than-Human
Traces the history of the failed Marble Island marble quarry in Svalbard run by the British Northern Exploration Company, and how its failure has been mythologised as more-than-human resistance.
Vekst, vern og kald krig
High-arctic cultural heritage environments are deteriorated by cruise tourism: a case study from Svalbard
Field and remote-sensing study finds cruise tourism is the main stressor degrading vegetation at eight Svalbard cultural heritage sites, rising from 4% to 55% impairment over 1990–2020.
Complex geohazards at a high-priority Arctic cultural heritage site at Russekeila – Kapp Linné, Svalbard
Maps geohazards such as river and coastal erosion, permafrost thaw slumps, and solifluction threatening the Russekeila cultural heritage site at Kapp Linné, Svalbard, and finds the river mouth moved over 90 m in 66 years.
Impacts of tourism on Arctic communities - the Spitsbergen example
Transforming Svea: staging a return to a wilderness-like nature
Assesses the restoration of Svea, a former mining town in Svalbard, finding conceptual inconsistencies about nature, culture and wilderness in how the post-mining landscape is treated.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N5) detected in an Atlantic walrus ( Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus ) in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, 2023
First documented case of H5N5 highly pathogenic avian influenza in an Atlantic walrus found dead in Svalbard in 2023, with genetic analysis linking it to avian virus isolates.
Marine Archaeological Surveying Using Snake Robots: The Eely Survey of Figaro Wreck in the High Arctic
A snake robot named Eely photogrammetrically mapped the 20th-century wreck Figaro at 35 m depth in Trygghamna fjord, Svalbard, and compared results with earlier surveys.
The Svanbergfjellet Formation: eukaryotic life in a Tonian Sea
Re-sampling of the Svanbergfjellet Formation, a Tonian-age rock unit in Svalbard, reveals diverse exceptionally preserved microfossils, including early green algae, from a shallow sea about 1000–720 million years ago.
Tekst o Spitsbergenie z 1782 roku jako przykład zainteresowania terenami polarnymi w końcu XVIII wieku
Public engagement in polar science: perspectives from tourists and scientists on the SEES-2022 expedition to Svalbard
Examines how combining cruise tourism with scientific research on the SEES-2022 Edgeøya expedition shapes public engagement, using perspectives from tourists and scientists, and proposes six recommendations.
Photography, plants, and care in a changing Arctic
Uses vernacular 1920s-1980s photographs from Svalbard mining towns, held in Arctic archives, to argue an analogy between photography and plants through the lens of care and natureculture.
Mapping Svalbard between XIX and XX centuries: Gerard De Geer and the Arctic Archipelago, 1882-1931
Traces how Swedish geologist Gerard De Geer's six expeditions and maps of Svalbard from 1882 to 1931 served Swedish coal and strategic ambitions before the Svalbard Treaty.
Vive le Roy' Een Franse aanval op de Nederlandse walvisvloot in Spitsbergen
Svalbard: Between International Community and International Relations Space
An atlas of discourse: mapping large digital archives through expansive interface design
Uses 16,000 articles from the Svalbard local newspaper Svalbardposten as a case study to design and evaluate interfaces for exploring large digital archives while keeping interpretation open.
Contesting Svalbard: Navigating Arctic Futures
A design dissertation proposing adaptations to the Svalbard Treaty, alternative built-environment futures, and a new transnational Arctic design agency, critiquing Norwegian dominance on the archipelago.
Policy perspectives on the Svalbard treaty and the evolving arctic order
How did R2D2 land in Adventdalen?
Instruction of the Arkhangelsk Medical Board of 1837 on the Prevention and Treatment of Scurvy on Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen
Publishes an 1837 Arkhangelsk Medical Board pamphlet giving scurvy prevention and treatment advice for hunters on Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen, recommending sour berries and pine-cone decoction.
Russland på Svalbard: sikkerhetspolitikk, bilateralisering og subversjon
Traces Soviet and Russian policy toward Svalbard from the Cold War onward, arguing that Russia's bilateralism with Norway has been paired with covert pressure that is best termed subversion.
Russia’s policy of presence in Svalbard
Analyses Russia's efforts to maintain its presence in Svalbard under the Svalbard Treaty, finding its policy is poorly coordinated and driven mainly by cost-cutting and security needs.