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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Karl Erb on US Participation in the International Polar Year
18.06.2009
In this interview, Dr. Karl Erb, Director of the United States Office of Polar Programs (OPP) in the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), discusses the involvement of the U.S. in the 2007-08 International Polar Year (IPY), its benefits and legacies.
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Igor Krupnik on the Social Sciences in the IPY: The Legacy of the Social Sciences
22.04.2009
As a cultural anthropologist and curator of Arctic and Northern ethnology collections at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., USA, Dr. Igor Krupnik, Ph.D., has done extensive fieldwork in Alaska and along the Russian Arctic coast, and has worked on several projects studying the impacts…
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Igor Krupnik on the Social Sciences in the IPY: Promoting Reciprocity towards Arctic Residents
17.04.2009
Dr. Igor Krupnik, Ph.D., is cultural anthropologist and curator of Arctic and Northern ethnology collections at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., USA. He has done extensive fieldwork in Alaska and along the Russian Arctic coast, and has worked on several projects studying the impacts…
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David Carlson on the IPY: Tacking Stock and Looking Forward
11.03.2009
To mark the end of the 4th International Polar Year's official research period on the 28th of February 2009, SciencePoles interviewed Dr. David Carlson, Director of the IPY International Programme Office (IPO) about the IPY, its achievements, its limitations and itslegacies.
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Princess Elisabeth Antarctica: A Marvel of Sustainable Development
06.03.2009
On February 15th, 2009, the Brussels-based International Polar Foundation (IPF) officially inaugurated the new Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station, the very first Antarctic research station ever designed and built to run entirely on renewable solar and wind energies.The new "zero emission" Belgian research station is the only research platform completed during…
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The State of Polar Research: A Preliminary Report on IPY Research
26.02.2009
Marking the official end of the Fourth International Polar Year (IPY) in Geneva, Switzerland on 25 February 2009, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the International Council for Science (ICSU) have co-published a preliminary report entitled "The State of Polar Research", which provides an outline of what has been learned…
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The LGP: Using the Victoria Land Coast as a Proxy for Climate Change in Antarctica
19.02.2009
What might happen to terrestrial and marine ecosystems in the Antarctic as climate change progresses is a question that has interested researchers working on the planet's southernmost continent for some time.
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Shulamit Gordon Discusses the Latitudinal Gradient Project
19.02.2009
The Latitudinal Gradient Project (LGP) is a framework under which several different research projects from New Zealand, Italy and the United States are operating. A total of 18 projects under the LGP are studying terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems along the Victoria Land coast in the Ross Sea region of…
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Inauguration of Kunlun Station at Dome Argus
06.02.2009
With the inauguration on Kunlun station at Dome A, it can be said that man has effectively colonized the Earth's last great terrestrial frontier, as well as one of the most remote and inhospitable locations anywhere on Earth.
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Jenny Baeseman on APECS an Important Legacy of IPY
20.01.2009
As the fourth International Polar Year draws to a close, talk of the legacies that the current IPY will leave in its wake has begun to circulate. Established to respond to the specific needs of students and young professionals in the polar sciences, the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists…
