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Arctic research ship sets sail

ADVENT CALENDAR 2016 – The Arctic Station’s own research ship is used for all kinds of tasks, such as collecting sea water samples or sailing around Disko Island. Enjoy the photos and coverage from Greenland leading up to Christmas Eve

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Polar researcher’s wild workplace

ADVENT CALENDAR 2016 – For a polar researcher, the concept of field work has a completely different meaning. See the photos and read up on life as a polar researcher over the month of December.

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The ice fjord spits icebergs out into Disko Bay

ADVENT CALENDAR 2016 – Sometimes it is difficult to put a sight into words. Enjoy the photos and news from Greenland leading up to Christmas Eve

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Blæsedalen reveals the carbon balance in the Arctic

ADVENT CALENDAR 2016 – A few kilometres from Arctic Station, researchers are investigating the carbon balance in the Arctic. Enjoy photos and coverage from Greenland leading up to Christmas Eve.

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Big Ben

Nobel prize winner: In a corner office at the Niels Bohr Institute there sits a Nobel prize winner surrounded by stacks of books and journals

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Nature: Sacking of Thybo the result of a harmful UCPH corporate culture

The good news is that University of Copenhagen is in the journal Nature again. The bad news is that it is in the form of a leading article that slams UCPH for the sacking of Professor Hans Thybo

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More than a thousand scientists sign Thybo protest

Scientists from throughout the world are signing a protest against the sacking of Hans Thybo, which they call a 'threat to academic freedom'. Controversies like the Thybo case may affect the University's ranking position, says THE-ranking editor

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Postdoc: "Thybo did not put pressure on me”

Nature magazine quotes Egyptian post doc researcher that he did not feel pressured by the geologist Hans Thybo, contradicting what UCPH otherwise states as the main reason to fire Thybo

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The morning view of a polar researcher

ADVENT CALENDAR 2016 - View from the University of Copenhagen's Arctic Station in West Greenland. Can you see what it is on the beach? See the photos and follow the Greenland trip in the days up to Christmas Eve

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The Arctic mission

ADVENT CALENDAR 2016 - Off the west coast of Greenland is a research station called the Arctic Station. The University Post visited it in late October. How is research done here where the northern lights are all just part of the job? See the photos and read our stories from Greenland in the days up to Christmas Eve

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