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Infrastructure and shared resources

Ny-Ålesund offers a wide range of shared research infrastructure and laboratory services. Scientists are welcome to rent workspace or space for instrumentation in any of the shared facilities.

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Resources

Tools

Various tools, such as online maps, various web cameras at several locations, handbooks as well as a GIS system for instruments and field sites in Ny-Ålesund, are available for all.

Logistics

Kings Bay AS will normally be the main provider of logistical services in Ny-Ålesund, however both NPI or your host institution will be able to provide some logistical support. Booking of major equipment (boats, snowmobiles, etc.), together with other vital logistics like chemicals, rifles, etc. should be specified when you do your RiS booking.

Shared research infrastructure

Kings Bay Marine Laboratory

The Kings Bay Marine Laboratory is the northernmost experimental laboratory for research in marine ecology, physiology, biochemistry, as well as physical sciences like oceanography, marine geology and ice physics. The laboratory is located right on a beach with easy access to boats.

Vaskeri lab

The Vaskeri Lab is an older building that can be used for environmental and terrestrial laboratory work, and is perfect for work with soil, sediments, animal sampling etc. It consists of two common labs, and metrology and calibration facilities.

Veksthuset

The terrestrial laboratory Veksthuset is located in the middle of Ny-Ålesund and includes brand new dry and semi-wet lab facilities. The labs are currently being furnished and equipped and are expected to be ready for use in the spring of 2021.

Gruvebadet Atmosphere Laboratory

Gruvebadet is an atmosphere laboratory and observatory located midway between Ny-Ålesund, the Zeppelin observatory and the Climate Change Tower. The building currently hosts instruments for among others aerosols sampling.

Light Sensitive Cabin

The Light Sensitive Cabin is located 2,5 km from the centre of Ny-Ålesund and is for research and instruments that needs to get away from the light pollution from Ny-Ålesund.

Zeppelin Observatory

The Zeppelin Observatory is located on the Zeppelin Mountain, 472 m asl, above the local inversion layer, so that interference from local pollution is minimal.

MS Teisten

MS Teisten is a small 31 feet long work boat equipped to do smaller scientific operations and surveys in Kongsfjorden and Krossfjorden. It has lots of field sampling equipment on board available for use.

The Old Pier

The Old Pier has served as an access point to the water, and the AWIPEV underwater observatory is located here. The Old Pier is currently CLOSED for operation due to safety issues

The Metrology Laboratory at Vaskeri lab

Measurement is not just reading an instrument. Researchers from the National Institutes of Metrology (INRiM) have established a laboratory for sensors calibration and uncertainty evaluations in the Vaskeriet Laboratory in Ny-Ålesund. Here researchers (after agreement) can come to evaluate the uncertainty in their instruments by direct supervision from researchers at INRiM.