| People who have shown interest and will stay at the station for some time in 2012 |
| name | period | origin | role |
| Maarten Loonen | 14 June-16 August | University of Groningen | station manager
ecologist |
| Hielke Alsemgeest | 18 June-16 August | Wageningen University | master student |
| Suzanne Lubbe | 18 June-26 July | University of Groningen | field assistant |
| Casper van der Kooi | 26 July-16 August | University of Groningen | master student |
| Riita Nissinen | 25 June - 2 July | University of Groningen | microbial endophytes |
| Manoj Kumar Gopala Krishnan | 25 June - 2 July | University of Groningen | microbial endophytes |
| Jaap van der Meer | 6-16 August | NIOZ | food web dynamics |
| Els Jansen | 6-16 August | NIOZ | field assistant |
| Martine van den Heuvel-Greve | 11-18 June | Wageningen University | eco toxicology |
| Nico van den Brink | 11-18 June | Wageningen University | eco toxicology |
| Willemijn Loonen | 2-16 August | | fieldassistent |
| Marion van Rijssel | 2-9 August | | marine biology |
| Period of stay in Ny-Ålesund of people in cooperating projects in 2012 |
| name | period | origin | role |
| Natalia Lebedeva | 21 June-28 June | Murmansk Marine Biological Institute | project AviFAUNA
biologist |
| Elena Melekhina | 21 June-28 June | | project AviFAUNA |
| Anastasia Taskaeva | 21 June-28 June | | project AviFAUNA |
| Juhani Hopkins | 21 June-28 June | | project AviFAUNA |
| Mette Svenning | | University of Tromsø | methane procucers in exclosures |
| Qi Zhao | 15 June - 30 July | Beijing, China | plant quality |
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