Zackenberg Research Station is an ecosystem research and monitoring facility at Zackenberg (74°30'N / 21°00'W) in Northeast Greenland 25 km north-west of Daneborg. A branch facility is situated at Daneborg in a former meteorological station.
Zackenberg is coordinated with the monitoring programme Nuuk Basic in West Greenland.
Zackenberg is owned by The Government of Greenland and is operated by the National Environmental Research Institute. The work at Zackenberg is coordinated through the programme Zackenberg Ecological Research Operations with the following institutions as partners:
National Environmental Research Institute, Aarhus University
Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
University of Copenhagen
Asiaq, Greenland Survey
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
The work at Zackenberg is carried out through means funded by:
The Danish Energy Agency
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
The Government of Greenland
Aage V. Jensen Charity Foundation
In addition to individual research projects and programmes a comprehensive environmental monitoring, Zackenberg Basic, is operating at Zackenberg.
For further information on issues relating to the research, monitoring and logistics at Zackenberg Research Station please contact the Zackenberg secretariat at