Prof Kim Senger at UNIS, lead of the Thematic Network on Arctic Geology, led a large team of international and multi-career stage co-authors (including lecturers and past students) for this contribution. This paper summarises the international NOR-R-AM network ((a Norwegian-Russian-North American collaboration), research and pedagogical foundations, lecture modules and field trips, and tools of the course, many details of which occurred behind the scenes from 2018 onwards. The course's main objective is to teach the complex geological evolution of the Arctic from the Devonian period (∼ 420 million years ago, Ma) to the present day through integrating multi-scale datasets and a broad range of geoscientific disciplines. Past student cohorts were asked to fill in a survey about their experience and the paper spotlighted 4 former students (Anna, Rafael, Fenna and Julian) and how this Arctic geology course and network has shaped their subsequent studies and trajectories.
Senger, K., Shephard, G., Ammerlaan, F., Anfinson, O., Audet, P., Coakley, B., Ershova, V., Faleide, J. I., Grundvåg, S.-A., Horota, R. K., Iyer, K., Janocha, J., Jones, M., Minakov, A., Odlum, M., Sartell, A., Schaeffer, A., Stockli, D., Vander Kloet, M. A., and Gaina, C.: Arctic Tectonics and Volcanism: a multi-scale, multi-disciplinary educational approach, Geosci. Commun., 7, 267–295, https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-7-267-2024, 2024.