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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Meredith Hooper: Palmers Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
20.08.2007
SciencePoles interviewed Meredith Hooper to mark the publication of her new book: 'The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica'. A trustee of the IPF-UK and recipient of the US National Science Foundation Antarctica Service Medal, Meredith Hooper's writing ranges from award-wining non-fiction books for all ages to…
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Steven Emslie on the Adélie Penguin Diet Shift
30.07.2007
A press release dated July 11 revealed a study on the Adélie Penguins' diet. According to eggshell fragment studies, a significant dietary change occurred in the early 1900s: the Adélie penguins shifted from eating fish to krill. Researchers Steven Emslie of the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, and William…
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Chris Rapley: Taking Stock on Climate Change
15.06.2007
On the eve of his retirement as Director of the UK's British Antarctic Survey (BAS), SciencePoles interviewed Professor Chris Rapley on climate change from a polar research perspective. The interview also touched on broader issues, such as the societal decisions that now lie before us.
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Steve Padin: Tracking the Density and Properties of Dark Energy
04.06.2007
The International Polar Foundation recently interviewed senior scientist Dr. Stephen Padin, from the University of Chicago, whom has been project manager for the South Pole Telescope (SPT) project over the past four years and whom is currently wintering over at the South Pole, making sure that the SPT is working…
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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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Bruno Danis on ANDEEP’s Discovery of New Antarctic Species Biodiversity and SCAR-MarBIN
21.05.2007
Dr. Bruno Danis of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences recently agreed to be interviewed by SciencePoles concerning the approximately 700 new marine species that have been found in the depths (from 700 m up to 6.3 km) of the Weddell and Scotia Seas off of Antarctica during the…
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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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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…
