Summer 2026 saw an exciting opportunity for collaboration between Umeå University and Tromsø University to conduct fieldwork on Svalbard for WP2.

The fantastic town of Sisimiut welcomed us again in February 2026, thanks to the Arctic DTU.

The past week ILLUQ held its first annual meeting in the beatiful Sesimbra in Portugal.

The summer 2026 WP6 embarked on an interview journey to Tuktoyaktuk NWT, Canada.

The DTU team have been in Greenland again in summer and fall 2025 to study the linkages between permafrost thaw and drinking water quality.

A new trans-disciplinary, comparative study reveals key risks posed by thawing Arctic permafrost.

A new award program honors the UArctic Founders by giving back to the next generation of Arctic research.

Work packages 1, 2 and 3 joined efforts together with the project ThinIce (Thawing industrial legacies in the Arctic - a threat to permafrost ecosystems) also this year, in the western arctic tundra.

The ILLUQ 2024 summer field work kicked off with an expedition to the Herschel Island / Qikiqtaruk in the Yukon coast in Canada.

At the end of May, the ILLUQ consortium convened in the beatiful Spetses in Greece for its second General Assembly.

The Portuguese team set off on August 22nd to Sisimiut, Greenland, with the mission of collecting samples for contaminants in flora and fauna.

The last of the three consultations locations was Ilulissat in Greenland, where we visited several public and private institutions. 

WP8 adventured to Ilulissat in Greenland in March 2026 to engage with local stakeholders.

Summer means expeditions in Arctic research. A team, led by the ILLUQ coordinator Hugues Lantuit, is currently on the Hersechel Island / Qikiqtaruk on field work related to the WPs 1 and 6.

We continued our consultation meetings in Svalbard. This time in collaboration with our sister projects ICEBERG and ArcSolution.