Climate-ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra (COAT)

Adaptive long-term research in the face of climate change
These pages are currently under construction, for all official information from the COAT project, please visit www.coat.no

Climate-ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra (COAT)

Adaptive long-term research in the face of climate change

19.12.2018

NEW! COAT CASE STORY

NEW! COAT CASE STORIES are short popular handouts from COAT. This second COAT CASE STORY about the community-based actions against an invasive rodent and its zoonotic parasite in Longyearbyen is now available in english.

17.12.2018

An uncertain future for the mountain birch forest

Outbreaks by geometrid moths have caused extensive damage to mountain birch forest in northern Scandinavia during the last 15 years. A new study helps to explain why the damage has been so severe and suggests that the forest may fail to recover in the most heavily affected areas.

19.11.2018

First recording of a breeding introduced arctic fox on Varanger Peninsula

Screening of the photos from trail cameras has just revealed that one arctic fox litter was born on Varanger Peninsula this summer.

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Current activities

Presentation about COAT at Varangerbotn museum 23.02.
By Leif Einar Støvern on 05.03.2019

On Saturday 23.2. Jan Erik Knutsen was on the museum in Varangerbotn holding a presentation about C...

Ecology conference in Tromsø
By Leif Einar Støvern on 05.03.2019

COAT was well represented at the Ecology conference - "Towards Policy-Relevant Ecology" held by t...

14 SIOS Polar Night Week 14-18 January 2019
By Leif Einar Støvern on 14.12.2018

The first SIOS Polar Night Week (PNW) will take place in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 14-18 January 20...

05 Reference meeting COAT Arctic Fox module
By Leif Einar Støvern on 16.11.2018

The reference group gathers for their annual meeting to evaluate 2018

10 Several contributions from COAT at the Arctic Biodiversity Congress
By Eeva Soininen on 10.10.2018

Several COAT members participate the Arctic Biodiversity Congress at Rovaniemi this week. We presen...

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Climate-ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra (COAT)

Adaptive long-term research in the face of climate change These pages are currently under construction, for all official information from the COAT project, please visit www.coat.no

Climate-ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra (COAT)

Adaptive long-term research in the face of climate change

NEW! COAT CASE STORY

An uncertain future for the mountain birch forest

First recording of a breeding introduced arctic fox on Varanger Peninsula

Current activities

Adaptive long-term research in the face of climate change
These pages are currently under construction, for all official information from the COAT project, please visit www.coat.no