Welcome to NeAT - and the revamped website for 2026!
NeAT - the Network for Arthropods of the Tundra - is an academic network connecting researchers with interests in terrestrial and freshwater arthropods of Arctic, Antarctic and alpine regions bringing together entomologists and ecologists from research institutions around the world.
The goals of NeAT are to advance communication, collaboration and knowledge about tundra arthropods among our members, but also to the wider world. With this in mind, the website is organised around these three themes.
Firstly, we aim to advance communication about arthropods by posting News and Events. Here, we'll provide a round up of the latest projects, field campaigns and opportunities for meeting up. Secondly, on the Collaboration page, we will post calls for collaboration and forthcoming funding calls, for example. Thirdly, to help advance tundra arthropod knowledge, the Outreach page will host the latest publications from members of the group, as well as upcoming talks and meetings.
If you have any questions about the network, write to Mark Gillespie. Alternatively, get in touch through the About us page.
Join us!
To become a member and subscribe to the mailing list, click the left link below. It opens an email message to add optional info, and will automatically add you to the list. To unsubscribe, click the right button and send a blank email.
Noticeboard
New Paper!
Amanda Koltz and Lauren Culler provide an overview of a recent high profile issue
New: Science Editorial on Arctic mosquitoes
The recent discovery of a mosquito in Iceland for the first time on record has made news headlines recently, with fears it could be an indication of future northward expansions. Amanda and Lauren were invited by Science to provide an editorial on the matter, and raise the the important point that we lack a monitoring system to detect such invasives moving north. Read the article here.
Call for inputs
Send us your images of arthropods, landscapes, fieldwork...
Call for input: we need more images!
In order to keep updating the website, we need images to make it visually engaging, and it would be fantastic to get a range of images from our members featuring arthropods you love or have captured in the Arctic, Antarctic or Alpine regions. Equally, stunning pictures from your field sites are also welcome.
Send any images to Mark here, together with info about the photographer so we can credit the image.
Call for more input!
Send us content for papers, projects, funding, jobs, opportunities...
Send us content for the website to keep everyone informed
We would like to collate information on the website about everything to do with tundra arthropods, and we need your help to keep it up to date.
If you have news you'd like to share, papers or preprints you want to post, ideas for upcoming meetings or projects, an obscure funding call you've just discovered, a job opening you'd like to advertise or any other opportunities to communicate, collaborate and share knowledge, send it in and we'll find a home for it here.
Email anything you think might be relevant to Mark here
Photo credits:
- Spider (Pardosa glacialis): Oskar L. Pryds Hansen;
- hoverfly: Cecilie Lohse Mielec;
- wasp (Gonatopus brooksi): Mathias B. Skytte;
- caterpillar (Gynaephora groenlandica): Isabel Barrio