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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Claudio Aporta: Investigating What Canadian Inuit Know about Sea Ice
12.10.2009
Dr. Claudio Aporta is the principal investigator for the ISIUOP (Inuit Sea Ice Use andOccupancy Project), the Canadian component ofthe IPY Sea Ice Knowledge and Use (SIKU) project (IPY project n° 166). ISIUOP has been running for three seasons in Inuit communities in Eastern Canada and is currently wrapping up…
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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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Darrell Kaufman Discusses Methods Used in Studying past Arctic Climate
16.09.2009
As a Professor of Geology and Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, Dr. Darrell Kaufman has been studying past climate changes in Alaska over the last 20 years. His current research is aimed at using evidence from previous climate changes to help understand present and future climate changes. Dr. Kaufman…
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Darrell Kaufman on Examining the Reverse in the Arctic Cooling Trend
15.09.2009
Dr. Darrell Kaufman, Professor of Geology and Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, has been studying past climate changes in Alaska for the last 20 years. His current research is aimed at using evidence from previous climate changes to help understand present and future climate changes. Dr. Kaufman is also…
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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.
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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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Beata Csatho: Improving Models and Predictions for the Greenland Ice Sheet
08.05.2009
Dr. Beáta Csathó of the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo has been studying the Greenland Ice Sheet for a number of years and is currently involved in a number of projects funded by NASA and NSF.
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Beata Csatho: History and Dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet
06.05.2009
Dr. Beáta Csathó of the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo has been studying the Greenland Ice Sheet for a number of years and is currently involved in a number of projects funded by NASA and NSF.
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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…
