Articles & Interviews
Sciencepoles articles look at key findings from a range of polar science and research fields. Our articles RSS feed will inform you when new articles are published on this website.
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Dongmin Jin on Korea’s Polar Ambitions
30.09.2010
Dongmin Jin is Director of the Department of Strategy and Policy at the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI). In this interview, he discusses KOPRI’s new icebreaker, the Aaron, plans for a new Korean research station in Antarctica, and research priorities, contributions, and collaborations in the coming years.
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Princess Elisabeth Antarctica: Changing the Way We Think about Using Energy
29.04.2010
Belgium’s new Antarctic research station, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (PEA), is unique in that is was designed and built to be the world’s first “zero emission” polar research station, running entirely on renewable wind and solar power. Built in the Dronning Maud Land of East Antarctica as Belgium’s main contribution…
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Kazuyuki Shiraishi on Belgo-Japanese Cooperation in the Dronning Maud Land
27.01.2010
Dr. Kazuyuki Shiraishi is Vice Director-General in charge of Antarctic Programs at the Japanese National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) as well as a professor of geology. He has a particular interest in the evolution of continental crusts, especially the Gondwana Supercontinent, which existed between about 550 million and 165…
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Steven Goderis: Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica with JARE 51
21.12.2009
Antarctica is not only a valuable place to conduct research about the Earth, its climate and its geological history; it's also a good place to learn more about our solar system and its history. The massive ice sheet covering Antarctica and the continent's relative isolation from human development make it…
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CHINARE 26
08.12.2009
Following its coverage of the 25th Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE 25), SciencePoles caught up with Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration (CAA), to hear about the goals of the 26th CHINARE expedition and China's future polar research plans, including the construction of a new research ice breaker.
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DAMOCLES Scientists Convene in Brussels
17.11.2009
From the 10th to the 12th of November 2009, the DAMOCLES (Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies) project held a symposium in Brussels, Belgium. The symposium gathered more than 150 scientists involved in the EU-funded research project so they could debate and discuss the results of…
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Igor Krupnik: Documenting Arctic Peoples Knowledge and Use of Sea Ice
06.10.2009
Indigenous people who live on the Chukchi Peninsula in the Russian Far East and in Western Alaska have experienced a dramatic shift in their sea ice use and knowledge over the past two generations. Several indigenous languages traditionally spoken in the region are on the decline, and in many communities…
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Examining Indigenous Sea Ice Knowledge and Use
05.10.2009
For many indigenous communities that have lived in the Arctic for millennia, sea ice has been an integral part of their living environment. As a place where they have spent a significant part of their lives hunting, fishing and even dwelling on the ice, the intimate understanding of sea ice…
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Karin Lochte on the Work of the Alfred Wegener Institute
20.08.2009
Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) carries out cutting edge research in the Arctic and Antarctic as well as in the high and mid latitude oceans. A biological oceanographer involved in climate change research, Professor Karin Lochte became Director of AWI in 2007. Earlier in her career, she was professor of…
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Karl Erb on US Polar Research Logistics and Policy
19.06.2009
In this interview, Dr. Karl Erb, Director of the United States Office of Polar Programs (OPP) in the National Science Foundation (NSF), discusses recent and future developments in U.S. polar research, logistics, and policy.
