August 29, 2018
PGI employees took part in the summer scientific school conducted within the framework of the ASTRA project

Employees of the Polar Geophysical Institute took part in the summer scientific school conducted within the framework of the ASTRA project “The Arctic Space Training” at the UNIS University Center located in the Svalbard archipelago.

The Arctic Space TRAining (ASTRA) is a platform providing a research-based student training in space science. It focuses on the Norwegian and Russian Arctic regions, which have excellent location for studying the polar ionosphere. ASTRA gives hands-on education for last year bachelor students, master students and PhD candidates. The training includes using various research facilities and instruments across the border including satellites, rockets, and ground-based instruments (magnetometer networks, EISCAT, SuperDARN, and optical instruments for the studies of the northern lights).