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NILU's researchers have found both nanoplastics and PFAS on remote glaciers. 🥶 Today is the World Day for Glaciers! Three years ago, the United Nations General Assembly declared that 2025 would be the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, and that March 21st would be the World Day for Glaciers as of this year. The world's glaciers are critically endangered, and many have already disappeared. But it is not only a warmer climate that threatens them. Pollutants in the air, which are transported over large distances in the atmosphere, also end up on the glaciers. Here are two recent stories from NILU that deal with samples taken from glaciers and what we found in them: Nanoplastics found on remote glaciers: https://lnkd.in/dSyNf5zj How sunlight affects PFAS pollution in the Arctic: https://lnkd.in/d9zX6CZ8 #Glaciers2025 #WorldGlaciersDay #PFAS #Nanoplastic

🤩 Being a database scientist isn't just about working with data - it's about the people behind it 😍

Welcome to Maria Dusinska's Fritz Sobel award lecture 🗓️ 26th of March, 12:00 The Fritz Sobel award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of environmental mutagenesis. 🏅 The price is given by the European Environmental Mutagenicity and Genomics Society (#EEMGS) This Wednesday we will gather in NILUs headquarters at Kjeller, Norway to celebrate Maria and this great achievement, together with those joining online. 🙌 Link to Teams-event: https://lnkd.in/e-X-XgpX 👩🔬 It was easy to get a YES from Maria when we asked her to jump on a plane to give her talk. Generous as she always is she will travel to Norway simply for this occasion! 👩🔬 Maria Dusinska has been affiliated to The Climate and Environment Institute NILU for many years and was instrumental to the founding of our Health Effects Laboratory. 🔬 We hope especially to be joined by many colleagues in the Nordic and Baltic countries. We are in the process of establishing a Nordic/Baltic regional society of EEMGS, called Nord-EEMGS. With this we hope to strengthen the Nordic/Baltic scientific cooperation within the fields of Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics, and increase the visibility of scientific advances and research in our region. 🧑🔬👨🏻🔬👩🏽🔬 https://lnkd.in/dnHwUWeC #FritzSobels #NordEEMGS #EnvironmentalMutagenesis

'The scientists are coming!' It sounds almost like a kitschy horror movie from the eighties, 🧟♀️ but it's far from that. 'Forskerne kommer' is an outreach event arranged by the Framsenteret Fram Centre during the National Science Week, where scientists tour Northern Norway to talk about what they are currently working on. 👨🔬 👩🔬 Environmental chemist and NILU scientist Linda Hanssen has participated four times. According to her, “the main thing for me is that we get out of our premises in Tromsø and engage pupils at other locations in northernmost Norway. A lot of exciting research gets done outside the universities, and it’s important to talk to people about that as well. Besides, practice makes perfect, and we get better at science outreach by actually talking and using figures rather than just reading aloud from a list of bulleted items. Being on tour in autumn can be magical. The scenery is stunning, and maybe you’ll get to places you’ve never been before.” 😍 Read more in the 14th edition of #FramForum, published today! https://lnkd.in/dJWZ-KB7

Is it possible to analyze snow for pollutants without using other harmful substances? ❄️ ⚗️ Project leader and NILU scientist Cleo Davie-Martin thinks so. In the Framsenteret Fram Centre-financed project DUMP, they use the new ‘green chemistry’ method for their analysis of traffic-polluted snow. The method is based on a thermal desorption technology that uses rapid heat to directly release the compounds of interest from the surface of a sample matrix into the gas phase for analysis. Read more in the latest edition of #FramForum, published today:   https://lnkd.in/dw9pXHTD Akvaplan-niva UiT- The Arctic University of Norway #EnvironmentalPollutants #snow

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘃𝗮𝗿𝘀- 𝗼𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘀𝗸𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗸𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮 𝗞𝗷𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 I dag hadde NILU gleden av å ta imot Norges forskningsråd på Kjeller. I løpet av formiddagen presenterte våre forskningsdirektører hvordan NILU bidrar til bærekraftig utvikling gjennom internasjonalt ledende klima- og miljøforskning. Vi viste også frem vår omfattende laboratorieinfrastruktur. Etter lunsj fikk vi selskap av våre nære kolleger fra NORSAR, Institute for Energy Technology og Kunnskapsbyen Lillestrøm, samt flere representanter fra NFR. Nils Morten fra IFE ga en inspirerende presentasjon om Kjellers rike innovasjonshistorie – fra Norges første flyplass og militærfly, gjennom krigsårene, og frem til etterkrigstidens banebrytende utvikling som ledet fram til etableringen av IFE, NORSAR og NILU. Resten av dagen var viet til forsvar og beredskap, hvor vi sammen med NORSAR og IFE presenterte våre aktiviteter og kapasiteter innen området, som er høyst relevante for dagens tema. NFR presenterte status for sin nye portefølje, og diskusjonene var preget av stort engasjement og mange nysgjerrige spørsmål. Det er tydelig at Kjeller representerer et sterkt og motivert innovasjonsmiljø med betydelige bidrag innen både forskning og samfunnssikkerhet. Takk til alle deltakere for en givende dag og gode diskusjoner! #innovasjon #forskning #Forsvar #beredskap #samarbeid #Kjeller

♻️ Happy World Recycling Day! ♻️ Sustainability and circular economy are areas NILU are strongly committed to. We develop and adopt scientific and digital solutions to support the transition to a circular economy. We enhance data sharing along the value chain, facilitate collaboration among stakeholders, and support informed decision-making for managing complex transitions. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dW7Ssgvv

📢 We are very excited about our new NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data, and look forward to seeing more great work from our data centre team! 👏

Research director at NILUs department for Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects, Pernilla Bohlin Nizzetto, was this week invited as a #keynote speaker at the Norwegian Environmental Chemistry Symposium (#NECS2025) at Geilo, Norway. Pernilla coordinates the Horizon Europe project INQUIRE, and held a presentation yesterday titled "Improving indoor air quality and health: Identification of chemical and biological determinants, their sources, and strategies to promote healthier homes in Europe". #IndoorAirQuality #HealthyHomes #AirQualityResearch

Yesterday, NILU scientist Natascha Schmidt gave a presentation at the Norwegian Environmental Chemistry Symposium (#NECS2025) at Geilo, Norway. The title was “Atmospheric microplastics in the Arctic and mainland Norway, occurrence, composition and sources”. Natascha talked about airborne #microplastics in general, the challenges to analyze them, and the results from the Norwegian Environment Agency monitoring program for microplastics in the Norwegian environment, #MIKRONOR.