The Stefansson Arctic Institute and the University of Akureyri are seeking to support candidates to apply for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships within defined thematic research areas.

At the beginning of 2025, the Stefansson Arctic Institute merged with the University of Akureyri. The merger took effect on January 1, 2025.

The article "Mortality drives production dynamics of Atlantic cod through 1100 years of commercial fishing" has been published in Science Advances.

The article “A transdisciplinary, comparative analysis reveals key risks from Arctic permafrost thaw” was published today in Nature: Communications, Earth and Environment.

Thursday January 16th at 11:30 GMT Dr. Catherine Chambers (Stefansson Arctic Institute - University of Akureyri & University Centre of the Westfjords) will deliver a lecture titled Human Dimension of Icelandic Small-Scale Fisheries at the Scottish Association for Marine Science and on Teams.

A new methods paper co-authored by Catherine Chambers has just been published.

The article "Invasive Species Management: The Case of Pink Salmon in Iceland" by Hjörleifur Finnsson, Catherine Chambers, and Guðni Guðbergsson (MFRI) about pink salmon management in Iceland has just been published in Marine Policy.

The chapter "Value Creation and Internal Resilience in South Greenland: The case of Nanortalik – a town in the municipality of Kujalleq" has now been published.

On October 27, Joan Nymand Larsen and Helga Númadóttir from the Stefansson Arctic Institute traveled to Ilulissat, West-Greenland, where they joined fellow researchers for a productive week of fieldwork as part of the ILLUQ project.