Research station reopens in Greenland

Arctic Station in Greenland has reopened after a thorough renovation. This is stated by the University of Copenhagen in a press release. For more than 100 years, the station has been the base for many hundreds of research projects, which among other things have aimed to study climate change, which can often be traced first in the Arctic.

Although in recent times there have been a number of modernizations and expansions of the Arctic Station, which was founded in 1906, in 2018 the station needed a major update. More than 100 researchers and students from all over the world have been waiting for the station to be used again as a base for their research on climate, among other things.

"In the Arctic, global warming is three to four times faster than on the rest of the globe, so interest in research in Greenland has almost exploded with visits by researchers from Denmark, the Nordic countries and Greenland, and certainly also from the strong research centers in the USA, Germany and Japan", says head of the Arctic station in Greenland, chief consultant Morten Rasch to the University of Copenhagen.