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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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…
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Julian Gutt: The Antarctic Polarstern / CAML Expedition ANTXXIII/8
09.01.2007
Huge areas of sea floor (around 3,250 km2) have been freed up by the collapse 4 years ago of the Larsen B platform along the Antarctic Peninsula, leaving a blank spot on Antarctic maps. Polarstern, the research flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, will shortly…
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Icebreaker Polarstern to Explore Antarctic Seafloor
15.11.2006
Huge areas of sea floor (around 3,250 km2) have been freed up by the collapse 4 years ago of the Larsen B platform along the Antarctic Peninsula" leaving a blank spot on Antarctic maps. Polarstern, the research flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, will shortly…
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Arctic Climate Change: ACIA Report Summary
08.11.2006
Our climate is already changing, particularly in the Arctic where the permafrost is melting, glaciers are receding, and sea ice is disappearing. Changes in the Arctic not only affect local people and ecosystems but also the rest of the world, because the Arctic plays a special role in global climate.
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International Polar Year Focuses on Climate Change
28.09.2006
Of the nearly 220 international research projects endorsed by the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08, around half will be looking at the effects of climate change in the Polar Regions, and the implications of this change for the Earth's climate system as a whole. In this feature, SciencePoles examines the…
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The ABCs of the IPY 2007-2008
01.09.2006
The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 has adopted the slogan "Polar Science - Global Impact" as the IPY will be an interdisciplinary and internationally coordinated research campaign, expected to usher in a new era of polar science. The international scientific community is eagerly anticipating its start in March 2007, as…
