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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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…
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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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Paul Mayewski: Climate Variability Abrupt Change and Civilization
25.03.2009
A veteran of over 50 research expeditions in Antarctica, the Arctic, the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau, Professor Paul Mayewski is one of the world's leading glaciologists and climatologists. Also Director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, he has published over 300 papers on climate-related research…
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Paul Mayewski: The Greenland Ice Sheet Project and the International Trans-Antarctic Expedition
20.03.2009
Director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine Professor Paul Mayewski is one of the world's leading glaciologists and climatologists. A veteran of over 50 research expeditions in Antarctica, the Arctic, the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau, he has published over 300 papers on climate related research,…
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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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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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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…
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Adam Lewis on Using Indigenous Knowledge in Monitoring Arctic Ice Cover
29.12.2008
For more than three decades the Nunavik Research Centre (NRC) in Kuujjuaq, Quebec (which falls under the direction of the Makivik Corporation, the official body that legally represents and serves the needs of Inuit communities in Quebec under the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement) has been using traditional ecological…
