The spring and the summer is the high season seeing researchers doing fieldwork in Greenland. In this article you can learn more about what they will be up to.

 

By Nicoline Larsen & Jula Maegaard-Hoffmann

 

As a local, it can be nice to know which research projects will take place where you live. Often, the researchers are also interested in including the locals in their research projects. For example, as research assistants, interpreters, interviewees, and boat operators.

 

Moreover, it can be a great advantage for researchers to know what other researchers do. This can help create new cooperations and can help the researchers share contacts and experiences with each other.

 

For these reasons, Arctic Hub is arranging online workshops where researchers from different fields get to meet. In these workshops, they share which research projects they have planned for the upcoming fieldwork season.

 

During the workshop, they fill out an interactive map of Greenland where their research projects are plotted in. In addition to that, they tell us if they, for instance, are looking for a translator or a research assistant.

 

We would like to share this knowledge with you. Both those of you who are researchers who did not participate in the workshop but also all of you outside the world of academia. This can help you get an impression of what kinds of research activities will happen in your local area. You can also se if there are any good opportunities for cooperations for you.

 

The projects on this map will not give you a complete overview of all the fieldwork happening in Greenland. You can find more research projects at ISAAFFIK where you, as a researcher, always have the possibility of registering your research project.

 

On April 17, 2023, we will repeat the successful coordination of research projects. You can sign up for Arctic Hub Connect here.

Avannaata Kommunia  

Ilulissat 

Spring 2023

ClimateNarratives is an interdisciplinary research project in the climate sciences, with activities facilitated in a longterm dialogue with local organisations, partners and artists. In Ilulissat our main partner is Arctic Culture Lab.  

Ragnhild Freng Dale, Senior Researcher, Vestlandsforsking (Norway): rfd@vestforsk.no. Read more: https://climatenarratives.w.uib.no/ 

 

Spring 2023

This project focuses on the evolution and (re)qualification of working relationships between humans and sled dogs, which are shaped by different contexts from contemporary issues such as environmental changes or tourism development. Ilulissat/Disko Bay area. Looking for local expertise!

Aug/Sep 2023 – FACE-IT-project + AMAP/CAFF process on co-production of knowledge
The overarching objective of FACE-IT is to enable adaptive co-management of social-ecological fjord systems in the Arctic. Read more:
https://www.face-it-project.eu/ 

Spring and fall 2023
Knowledge exchange through climate narratives and co-creation of new knowledge to better assess the relevance of physical and biological climate changes and their societal consequences for Indigenous communities in Greenland and Fiji. Read more; https://climatenarratives.w.uib.no/

Two projects by Anders Øgaard

1. Visting museums, sites and Ilulisat Icefjordcenter relevant for national and virtuel schoolteaching. 2.Observations and interviews related to teachers using distance teaching.” 

  • Anders Øgaard Associate professor, PhD Institute for Learning, Ilisimatusarfik: andgaard@uni.gl 

Qeqqata Kommunia 

Sisimiut 

Spring 2023

This project focuses on the evolution and (re)qualification of working relationships between humans and sled dogs, which are shaped by different contexts from contemporary issues such as environmental changes or tourism development. 

February 2023

By using the experimental-archaeological approach through fieldwork during a spring season in Sisimiut, the purpose of the project is to construct a dog sled and drive with sled dogs.  This is to gain an understanding of the construction details etc.

Late summer, early fall 2023 

I am investigating grammatical features of Kalaallisut for linguistic analysis.

  • Line Mikkelsen Professor University of California, Berkeley: mikkelsen@berkeley.edu

Kangerlussuaq 

Now – 2024 

This project explores the impact of the airport expansion project on communities in Greenland. Read more: https://infranorth.eu/ 

Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq 

Nuuk

Spring and fall 2023

Knowledge exchange through climate narratives and co-creation of new knowledge to better assess the relevance of physical and biological climate changes and their societal consequences for Indigenous communities in Greenland and Fiji. Read more: https://climatenarratives.w.uib.no/

Aug/Sep 2023 – FACE-IT-project 
The overarching objective of FACE-IT is to enable adaptive co-management of social-ecological fjord systems in the Arctic. Read more:
https://www.face-it-project.eu/ 

Late summer, early fall 2023 

I am investigating grammatical features of Kalaallisut for linguistic analysis.

  • Line Mikkelsen Professor University of California, Berkeley: mikkelsen@berkeley.edu

January – July 2023

This project is about climate change and the right of Indigenous Peoples under international law particularly in the overseas colonised territories of the state, with particular focus on Greenland and the Cook Islands. 

April 2023  

The research project aims to map and estimate the challenges and opportunities Greenlandic primary school teachers in remote areas may experience co-teaching during “blended synchronous classrooms” (BSC). 

Autumn 2023

I study the politics and practices of urban planning and development of Nuuk in the 1960s-1980s. My project is part of the project UrbTrans (based at UiT, Tromsø) which concerns how Nuuk have been planned and developed since the 1950s until today. Read more: https://en.uit.no/project/urbtrans 

8.-17. May 2023 

In this project, we examine how the modern Western dream of suburbia with its single-family houses unfolds in a Greenlandic context, in particular focusing on local traditions, the understanding of nature, community, infrastructure and consumption.

Tasiilaq 

April ’23

Combining snow measurements, data from climate models and local expertise on environmental changes, we try to understand how environmental changes, in particular the transition from snow to rain, influence quality of life in and around Tasiilaq. Read more: https://www.snow2rain.com 

Kommune Kujalleq 

 Narsaq & Qaqortoq  

June 2023

The project is specifically interested in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage area of “Knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe” and explore knowledge and practices of two communities in relation to their close marine area. Read more: https://www.narsaqresearchstation.gl/news/immateriality-of-knowledge-and-practices-of-boreal-coastal-communities-regarding-the-marine-environment-intangible-cultural-heritage-between-two-coastal-regions-across-the-northwest-atlantic

Qaqortoq, Qassiarsuk, Igaliku, Qeqertarsuatsiaat 

Two projects by Anders Øgaard

1. Visting museums and sites relevant for national and virtuel schoolteaching . 2. Observations and interviews related to teachers using distance teaching.”

  • Anders Øgaard Associate professor, PhD Institute for Learning, Ilisimatusarfik : andgaard@uni.gl

 Narsaq, Qaqortoq, Igaliku, Quassiarssuk 

April 2023 and August 2023

I am part of the Greenfjord project which look at changes in two fjord system in south of greenland. I am working on ways greenlanders dwell with their fjord environment, changes that happens, knowledge and way of life linked to it.  Read more: https://greenfjord-project.ch/research/humans/ Looking for a student assistant to help with interviews and planning !

Narsaq  

Available between May and November 

Narsaq Research Station is an independent not for profit organisation facilitating research across the sciences, humanities and the arts for the benefit of the local community of Narsaq and the wider region of South Greenland.  

https://www.narsaqresearchstation.gl/ 

Multiple municipalities

Nuuk, Tasiilaq, Narsaq, Qaqortoq, Nanortalik, Paamiut, Maniitsoq, Sisimiut, Aassiaat, Qasigiannguit, Ilulissat, Uummannaq, Upernavik  

Spring 2023: GreenBladder project
We plan to conduct a screening of all adults over age 40 in Greenland for bladder cancer to detect patients with early potentially curable tumor stages and improving the current very poor prognosis for bladder cancer patients in Greenland.  Read more: https://blacrest.com/greenbladder/

  • Tine Christiansen Clinical Trial Coordinator Aarhus University Hospital: tinechti@rm.dk
  • Nathalie Fryd MD, PhD student, Aarhus University Hospital : natfry@rm.dk

Kujataa, Sermersooq og Avannaa  

Many pregnant families in Greenland will have to travel long distances to give birth to their children.  This qualitative study focuses on the pregnant families’ perspectives and experiences with the birth care service i Greenland.  

  • Ingelise Olesen research coordinator Center for public Health in Greenland : uniiole@uni.gl