Akvaplan-niva scientists and collegues from MMBI and AMAP are authors of one chapter in the recently published book "Global development in the Arctic. International cooperation for the Future".
Climate change with melting sea ice in the Arctic Seas opens up new opportunities for industrial developments in resource exploitation, including petroleum exploration and exploitation, offshore mining,
By Salve Dahle, Lars-Henrik Larsen and Alexei Bambulyak // Akvaplan-niva
Norway’s relationship with its superpower neighbour to the east has often been tense. In this article, Salve Dahle and co-authors give an eyewitness account of the time just after the fall of the Soviet Union, when cross-border tensions began to ease.
Early on the morning of 30 July 1992, I woke up in my cabin onboa
Presentation for" The Arctic Readings: to the 160th anniversary of Fridtjof Nansen", Murmansk, 23-24 November 2021 (digital).
By Salve Dahle, Alexei Bambulyak and Paul Renaud, Akvaplan-niva
At the end of the 1980s there was a growing interest in Arctic states for a better understanding of the environmental status in the High North. In 1991 scientists from all Arctic countries met in Tro
Alexei Bambulyak from Akvaplan-niva participated in a panel and a presentation on MALINOR, DIMARC and ArcToMal projects at the first webinar in a webinar series on Marine Litter in the Barents Sea arranged by GRID-Arendal and Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU). Other panelists were Denis Moiseev (MMBI), Marthe Larsen Haarr (SALT) and Amy Lusher (NIVA).
This webinar series bring resea
Recently Lionel Camus and Alexei Bambulyak from Akvaplan-niva presented the projects MALINOR, ArcToMal and DIMARC at a Marine litter workshop arranged by World Wildlife Fund Russia (WWF Russia). The title of their talk was "Marine litter in the Arctic seas - Norwegian-Russian research collaboration and innovative litter mapping solutions". The event was arranged with support of the Consulate Gener
Akvaplan-niva and Murmansk Marine Biological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (MMBI) have completed a research project on radioecological assessment of the marine environment along the Murman Coast.
Our institutes have been cooperating on environmental research projects since the early 1990s. The first joint expedition with baseline studies of marine ecosystems, biodiversity an
Representatives from research institutes and universities, oil companies, regional authorities, nature protection and indigenous peoples organisations from Naryan-Mar, Arkhangelsk, Moscow, Ufa, Krasnoyarsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Russia) and Tromsø (Norway) took part in the round table. Alexei Bambulyak, manager Russia at Akvaplan-niva was a moderator of the round-table session and discussions.
At
This week Salve Dahle (Akvaplan-niva) takes part in a prestigious panel at a digital version of the conference "Arctic and Antarctic Days in Moscow" November 25-27 (http://arctic-days.ru/en/)and gives a talk at the International Scientific Congress "Open Arctic and Antarctic."
Program and panel participants
International Scientific Congress: OPEN ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC
Date and time: Nov
On 29 May this year a storage tank ruptured near Norilsk in the Russian Arctic releasing 21 000 cubic meters of diesel fuel onto the adjacent marshes and rivers. The spill is considered the second largest in Russia's history after the 1994 Usinsk oil pipeline spill in the Komi Republic during which Senior advisor at Akvaplan-niva , Salve Dahle, was on the ground in the Nenets region.
In 2017, Akvaplan-niva signed a Collaboration Agreement with Roscongress Foundation to strengthen cooperation between two Arctic forums – Arctic Frontiers (Norway) and Arctic: Territory of Dialogue (Russia). The next Arctic Frontiers will be held February 2021 and the next Arctic: Territory of Dialogue Forum will be arranged also in 2021, when Russia takes chairmanship in the Arctic Council
In September, Alexei Bambulyak and Gjermund Bahr represented Akvaplan-niva in the NRCC Business mission to Karelia, gave talks on ‘Norwegian aquaculture sector – developments and innovations’ at the Business seminar and on ‘Planning, control and monitoring in aquaculture in Norway’, as well as took part in study visits to aquaculture facilities and B2B meetings in Karelia.
In October Vladimir Savinov, a researcher at Akvaplan-niva (APN), will be part of the scientific crew on R/V Dalnie Zelentsy conducting monitoring surveys in the eastern Barents Sea. Through a collaborative agreement between the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute (MMBI) and APN, Savinov will sample sediments, zooplankton, fish, and seawater for use by several Nansen Legacy project researchers.
