Climate-ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra (COAT)

22. October 2025 From October 8–10, a delegation from COAT met with colleagues at the Department of Ecoscience (ECOS), Aarhus University (Campus Roskilde), to discuss opportunities for a formalized collaboration between COAT and Greenland Ecological Monitoring (GEM). The meeting identified several highly relevant topics and shared challenges that COAT and GEM/Zackenberg should collaborate on—both...

5. May 2025 Tundra vegetation in Svalbard is monitored by field measurements and drone and satellite-based remote sensing imagery. In this study, COAT researchers investigated how the remote-sensed vegetation index, NDVI, relates to field-based plant biomass and goose grubbing disturbances. The researchers found differences in the relationships between vegetation index and field-based biomass between...

20. March 2025 COAT contributes with one article to FRAM FORUM 2025, which was launched in March. The magazine contains knowledge and research produced by the institutions at the Fram Centre, FRAM - High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment. The COAT article is titled: Two exceptionally warm summers in the Norwegian Arctic The growing seasons in the past two years were long and warm...