Expertise Polar Research Groningen

We have a broad research expertise with a main focus on long-term human environment relations in the polar regions, ecology of migratory birds, the understanding of how climate change affects biology and how biology will feed back onto global climate and the origine of emissions in the Arctic.

The main research groups that conduct Polar research in Groningen are:

• Arctic Centre
• Ocean Ecosystems
• Plant Physiology
• Centre for Isotope Studies

Our experts have expertise in: archaeology, Arctic Council working groups, Arctic Tern migration, ecology, ecophysiology, egg eating polar bears, etno-anthropology, phytoplankton, genetics marine mammals, governance, historical ecology, HPLC analyses, interdisciplinary cooperation, isotopic analyses, Long-term geese research, Long-term human-environment relations, micro algae, migratory birds, multidisciplinary expeditions, polar climate pollution models, sea-ice algae, stakeholder engagement and waders.