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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Marie-Pierre Lardeau: Vulnerability of Inuit Communities in a Changing Arctic
29.07.2010
Food security (when food is available, accessible and of sufficient quality) is a major issue for the Inuit of northern Canada. Climate change is making it increasingly more difficult for hunters to access traditional hunting routes and changing animals’ natural distribution areas. On top of this, traditional hunting knowledge is…
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Mark Drinkwater on CryoSat-2 and its Mission
03.06.2010
With the successful launch of CryoSat-2 on 8th April 2010, the European Space Agency (ESA) has put a powerful new tool for observing the cryosphere into orbit. The new satellite’s primary mission will be to measure changes in the thickness of both sea ice and land ice.
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ICED: Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean
02.04.2010
Some of the most evident expressions of global climate change have been found in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Changes to the environment, including modifications in sea ice extent and concentration, have been associated with variations in ecosystems (including changes in seabird and krill abundance in particular areas) and biogeochemical…
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Sridhar Anandakrishnan on the Thwaites Glacier and Using UAVs for Glacier Research
18.02.2010
Sridhar Anandakrishnan is a leading expert on the ice streams of West Antarctica, in particular the Thwaites glacier and other fast-flowing glaciers responsible for draining the interior of the ice sheet. As Professor at the Department of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University working closely with CReSIS, the Center for the…
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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.…
