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QGreenland is a free data and mapping tool that supports interdisciplinary Greenland-focused research, teaching, and collaboration.

Photo of a 3am sunrise over the fjord - colors in the sky range from a cool, dark blue to highlighter orange and pink. A mountainous, snow-covered island is visible in the distance. Photo by Mariama Dryák-Vallies

September 2026

Greetings QGreenland users!

Over the summer, the QGreenland team has been busy working on launching a fresh style and feel for the QGreenland website, and updating the teaching resources we have available on it. Throughout the fall, our intention is to polish these items and launch them for users to enjoy. Stay tuned!

In this newsletter we are highlighting two items:

The work of a student research assistant in adding socioeconomic data to the QGreenland GIS package
Highlighting a new report on research from, in and about Greenland from Arctic Hub!

Wishing you a wonderful last few days of summer (or winter depending on where this email finds you)!

Kind regards,

Mariama, QGreenland Education and Outreach Lead

QGreenland Happenings

From November 2025 to May 2026, QGreenland Undergraduate Research Assistant, Sarah McGhee, worked to expand the socioeconomic data accessible within the QGreenland GIS Package. To do that, she focused on two main objectives: 1) adding socioeconomic data into the package, and 2) creating a repeatable workflow for users and developers to be able to add data from Statistics Greenland themselves. This process included gathering data from Statistics Greenland, using Structured Query Language (SQL) to clean the data, and performing spatial joins to add the new socioeconomic data to QGreenland data package. Below you can see an example of what this work now enables.

QGreenland users can already explore this new feature using the current v4 alpha4 release, which can be accessed here.

A big thank you to Sarah for all this work!

In other Greenland research news...

Research in Greenland: What, who, where? Key findings from ArcticHub's report Research from, in and about Greenland 2015 - 2024; Outline of Greenland with people inside that outline

A must-read for people doing research in Greenland: New ArcticHub Report examines the landscape of research in Greenland

Arctic Hub's new report, Research in Greenland (2026), provides a comprehensive overview of research activity connected to Greenland, examining publication trends, research priorities, international collaborations, and where research is being conducted across the country. The report highlights the extent of global interest in Greenland, identifies the countries and disciplines most engaged in Greenland-related research, and explores differences between research conducted by Greenland-based researchers and research focused on Greenland from elsewhere. By mapping these patterns and partnerships, the report aims to support ongoing conversations about the role, value, and future direction of research in Greenland.

Access this report in English, Greenlandic or Danish, here: https://arctichub.gl/report-on-research-in-greenland/

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