Students, professor will join Arctic energy course in Svalbard
May 16, 2017
Three master's degree students in UAF's Arctic and Northern studies program will participate
in a course on Arctic energy development at Norway's University Centre in Svalbard
from June 8-22.
Yu Cao, Arlo Davis and Glenn Gambrell will take part in the Sustainable Arctic Energy
Exploration and Development course. Twenty-six other students from the United States
and Norway will join them.
Brandon Boylan, assistant professor of political science and associate director of
Arctic and Northern studies, helped organize the course and will lecture during it.
The Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of Norway is known for its coal
deposits and polar bears. The University Centre in Svalbard is in Longyearbyen, an
administrative center of about 2,000 residents on the largest island, Spitsbergen.
During their stay, students and faculty will visit a mine in Barentsburg, a Russian
town on Spitsbergen.
The course is funded by the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education.