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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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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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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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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Interview of Dr. Huigen Yang Director of the Polar Research Institute of China and Leader of CHINARE
05.01.2009
Dr. Huigen Yang was interviewed by Jean de Pomereu aboard the Xue Long as it sailed from Antarctica to Australia during the last week of December 2008.
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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…
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Indigenous Knowledge and Scientific Data to Improve Climate Change Adaptation Strategies
25.12.2008
As the climate changes in the Arctic, indigenous communities living in the Far North are seeing an impact on the environment around them. As these communities depend heavily on living natural resources such as fish, beluga whale, seals and other animals as a primary source of subsistence, any impact climate…
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Chinese Antarctic Expedition: Close Call
01.12.2008
It all started in 1910 with Captain Scott and the loss of a tracked vehicle as it was being unloaded from his expedition ship, the Terra Nova. Since then the history of polar research and exploration has been littered with stories of vehicles dropping through sea ice, sometimes with tragic…
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Portrait of Mr. Li Yuansheng, Leader of the Dome A Traverse and Construction Team
21.11.2008
It long way from the steppes of Mongolia to the East Antarctic Plateau, but in many ways, these vast, windswept landscapes have things in common. Perhaps this is why Li Yuansheng, leader of the Dome A station traverse and construction team, feels so at home here.
