Lead institution:
UiT – Norway
Climate change is transforming the Arctic. The growing interest in the Arctic Ocean among commercial and political stakeholders underscores the necessity of coordinated research efforts for securing a knowledge-based management of an emerging reality.
The new 10-year research program Arctic Ocean 2050 unites 18 Norwegian research institutions in an unparallelled effort to address how the Arctic Ocean will change in the near to mid-term and develop state-of-the-art management principles and policies for sustainable development.
The program is organized along six research themes (global drivers and feedback, the changing Arctic Ocean, abrupt changes and extreme events, humans and a blue Arctic Ocean, advances in modelling and observing, Arctic Ocean pathways). Understanding the Arctic Ocean as one interconnected system is only achievable through international cooperation and by synthesizing data, models, and knowledge covering the entire Arctic Ocean and adjacent shelf seas.
Start Date: 01/01/2026
End Date: 31/12/2035
Lead Contact: Jørgen Berge (jorgen.berge@uit.no)