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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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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Robert Bindschadler on West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier
06.01.2010
Robert Bindschadler is a leading expert in the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets. He is Chief Scientist of NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, a Senior Fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center, a Fellow at the American Geophysical Union, and a past President of the International Glaciological Society.…
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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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Frank Pattyn on Ice Sheet Models and Ice-ocean Interaction
05.11.2009
A glaciologist and ice sheet modeller at the Glaciological Laboratory, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Frank Pattyn is a key member of the international ice sheet modelling community and a leading expert on ice sheet dynamics. His most recent interest lies…
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Martin Siegert: Current Understanding and Ongoing Research of Antarctic Subglacial Lakes
25.09.2009
Martin Siegert is the Head of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh and leader of a new consortium to study sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth in West Antarctica. As co-Chair of the Antarctic Climate Evolution Programme (ACE) and a member of the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Exploration group (SALE) ,…
