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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Wim Vyverman: Using Microorganisms in Antarctic Surface Lakes to Reconstruct past Antarctic Climate
28.03.2008
While ice cores have been able to give researchers a general idea about the global climate over the past 800,000 years, investigating certain microorganisms and their fossilised remains at the bottom of surface lakes in Antarctica can be a useful tool in investigating past climate change and variation on a…
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Graham Hosie: Antarctic Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change
13.11.2007
During the International Polar Year, the Census for Antarctic Marine Life is investigating the distribution and abundance of Antarctic marine biodiversity and how it will be affected by climate change. It is a major ship-based research programme taking place during the austral summer of 2007-08 which involves scientists from 30…
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Maintaining Biodiversity in the Southern Ocean through Marine Protected Areas
23.10.2007
When most people think of the Antarctic, they think only about the vast, ice and snow-covered continent of Antarctica at the bottom of the world. However if you consider the Antarctic on a broader ecosystem level, the Antarctic does not include only the continent, but the entire Southern Ocean as…
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Belgium’s Role in Advancing the Creation of Marine Protected Areas in Antarctica
23.10.2007
The development of a representative network of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean has been a priority of the Belgian government ever since 2005, when the Belgian Federal Ministry of Environment decided to place greater emphasis on environmental considerations, sustainable fishing practices, and the conservation of marine biodiversity…
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Chris Rapley: Taking Stock on Climate Change
15.06.2007
On the eve of his retirement as Director of the UK's British Antarctic Survey (BAS), SciencePoles interviewed Professor Chris Rapley on climate change from a polar research perspective. The interview also touched on broader issues, such as the societal decisions that now lie before us.
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Ralf Döscher Discusses DAMOCLES and Climate Modelling
20.04.2007
Recently SciencePoles interviewed Dr. Ralf Döscher, Senior researcher in ocean and climate modelling at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute's Rossby Centre. Dr. Döscher is also a Project Co-leader in charge of numerical modelling for the DAMOCLES project and was willing to tell us a bit about the kind of…
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Future Impacts of Climate Change in the Arctic
19.04.2007
Professor Oleg Anisimov is Head of the Climatology Department at the State Hydrological Institute of Roshydromet, located in St Petersburg, Russia. His main studies concern the impacts of Climate Change in high latitudes, with a recent attention brought to Arctic permafrost regions. The IPF met Dr. Anisimov at the Intergovernmental…
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ANDRILL: Drilling into the Earth’s Past in Antarctica
26.03.2007
SciencePoles interviewed Ross Powell of Northern Illinois University, co-chief of ANDRILL's McMurdo Ice Shelf project. ANDRILL is a USD 30 million multinational sedimentary drilling program to recover a history of paleoenvironmental changes in Antarctica. It will guide our understanding of the speed, size and frequency of past and future glacial…
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Southern Ocean Ecosystem Key for Global Climate
16.02.2007
Professor Christiane Lancelot is a marine ecological modeller whose work focuses on sea-ice extent and ecosystem dynamics in the Southern Ocean. She is the Principle Investigator of the Belgian research projects BELCANTO (BELgian research on Carbon uptake in the ANTarctic Ocean) and SIBClim (Sea Ice Biogeochemistry in a Climate change…
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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: The Polar Perspective
12.02.2007
On the 2nd of February 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 (out of three) released its contribution to the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. Entitled 'The Physical Science Basis, Summary for Policy Makers', the contribution makes predictions on future climate change and describes the progress made…
