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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Archives of Change: Ice Cores and the Reading of Climate
11.10.2007
Recently interviewed by SciencePoles, Dr Valérie Masson-Delmotte is a paleoclimatologist and leading expert on Antarctic and Greenland ice cores. Based at the French 'Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement' (CEA-CNRS UVSQ), she is also a contributor to the recent IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, and the author of children's…
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Paul Jolicoeur: IPY Geonorth 2007 and the Proposed Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure
19.09.2007
From August 20th to 24th, the IPY GeoNorth 2007 Conference took place in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. The First International Circumpolar Conference on Geospatial Sciences and Applications, the main purpose of the conference was to discuss the planned Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI), which once in place would make it…
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Pandas and Snow Dragons: Chinese Polar Research during the IPY and Beyond
20.07.2007
The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08 is a catalyst for nations to significantly increase their investment and level of activity in polar research. Among those that have risen to the challenge, few are more noteworthy than China, a country that, at a key time in its history and economic development,…
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Grete Hovelsrud of Cicero on Social Science in the IPY
29.05.2007
Dr. Grete Hovelsrud of the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO) Institute recently talked to SciencePoles regarding the role social sciences are playing in the International Polar Year 2007-08. Dr. Hovelsrud is a member of both the International Polar Year 2007-08 Joint Committee and the Norwegian…
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Indigenous Communities and Climate Change: A New Challenge for Adaptation
24.05.2007
As climate change progresses, the Polar Regions are changing more rapidly than any other region of the planet. No one has noticed these changes more than those who belong to indigenous peoples living in the Arctic. Given the specific indigenous knowledge that has helped these communities survive in such harsh…
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Susan Solomon: Clarifying Facts and Addressing Misconceptions
23.04.2007
Dr. Susan Solomon is a senior scientist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Chemical Sciences Division. Widely recognized as one of the leaders in the field of atmospheric science, Dr. Solomon is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a foreign associate of the French…
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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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ESA’s Cryosat 2 Mission Back on Track
03.04.2007
The European Space Agency's CryoSat 2 mission is set to make important contributions to our understanding of the interconnection between polar ice cover and climate change.
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Thomas Stocker Comments on the IPCC’s Polar Perspective
27.03.2007
Professor Thomas Stocker is Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics and Co-Director of the Physics Institute at the University of Bern in Switzerland. His research interests include Climate System Dynamics, Climate Modelling, Past and Future Climate Change, Abrupt Climate Change, Ice Core Analysis, and Radiocarbon dating. Professor Stocker was a…
