Learn about Svalbard biology from a 360 degree angle and join a virtual field trip from the biologist`s perspective! By choosing the location, you get to move around the archipelago. And you can not imagine, what`s all to discover here! … Read More
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The latest news around Svalbard geology
The Festningen Geotope – a laboratory for virtual field trips
The Festningen section in western Spitsbergen represents a unique and relatively easily accessible section that record over 300 million years of Earth’s history. Festningen is routinely visited as part of UNIS (and other universities) courses, industry fieldtrips and research field … Read More
AG-222 Virtual Field Trips 2021
The students of the UNIS geology course AG-222 developed a row of virtual field trips that bring you closer to the geology of Svalbard, and closer to field sites that are further away from the vast of civilization in the … Read More
Everything’s gone digital, why not drill core samples?
Following our recent publication in MDPI’s Remote Sensing about the digitisation of drill core samples, we are pleased to announce that Svalbox’s latest update brings support for the interaction with digital drill core models (DCMs)! In our publication, we show … Read More
Svalbox 2019 acquisition campaign a success!
In August we left Longyearbyen onboard the research sailboat R/V Clione and spent a week collecting boat-, drone- and ground-based photographs to construct virtual outcrop models for sharing on the Svalbox website. We have spent the entire week in remote … Read More
Arctic Rocks – the NfiP Arctic Petroleum Field School on Svalbard
Rift basins are among the most common hydrocarbon and groundwater plays, and thus important to society. Successful exploration and production in rift basins requires a sound understanding of their three-dimensional architecture and their geological evolution through time. During this Arctic … Read More
Circum-Arctic Geology for Everyone: a synthesis
The last two years we have been working on a UArctic-funded project initiated to share experiences on using modern tools in student-centred geoscientific education. In Helsinki, at the UArctic congress 2018, Kim presented the learnings from these two years. One … Read More