Outreach and the media

Glaciologist Jack Kohler describing the increased ice melt seen in Svalbard in recent years for Minister of the Environment and International Development, Erik Solheim (background) during a visit to Ny-Ålesund Photo: Kim Holmén / Norwegian Polar Institute

In 2009, the Norwegian Polar Institute, in cooperation with Kings Bay AS, created an exhibit presenting information on the research done in Ny-Ålesund. Photo: Ann Kristin Balto / Norwegian Polar Institute

The Norwegian Polar Institute’s multi-disciplinary scientific journal Polar Research – an Open Access journal.

The Norwegian Polar Institute disseminates polar research results and information about polar regions to central Norwegian authorities, other research institutes, the media and the general public. The Institute focuses especially on Norwegian polar research and environmental management in an international perspective. The Institute desires to ensure top-quality coverage of our research and our management tasks through our website, publications, library, and exhibitions and in the media.

The Institute, in cooperation with Co-Action Publishing, publishes the multi-disciplinary scientific Open Access journal Polar Research.

Our target groups are many, but we mainly provide up-to-date information on polar regions to serve the needs of Norwegian government agencies and policy-makers, other research institutes, schools and the media – and the interested public. We also arrange the Institute’s own conferences and coordinate visits for schools and the media.

The Polar Institute has an extensive library and an exceptional image archive. We also employ a polar historian and are responsible for a series of websites on polar topics.