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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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…
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ANDRILL: Drilling into the Earth’s Past in Antarctica
26.03.2007
SciencePoles interviewed Ross Powell of Northern Illinois University, co-chief of ANDRILL's McMurdo Ice Shelf project. ANDRILL is a USD 30 million multinational sedimentary drilling program to recover a history of paleoenvironmental changes in Antarctica. It will guide our understanding of the speed, size and frequency of past and future glacial…
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Southern Ocean Ecosystem Key for Global Climate
16.02.2007
Professor Christiane Lancelot is a marine ecological modeller whose work focuses on sea-ice extent and ecosystem dynamics in the Southern Ocean. She is the Principle Investigator of the Belgian research projects BELCANTO (BELgian research on Carbon uptake in the ANTarctic Ocean) and SIBClim (Sea Ice Biogeochemistry in a Climate change…
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Roger Barry: Bridging IGY and IPY
09.02.2007
SciencePoles interviewed Arctic climatologist Professor Roger G. Barry, Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). From 1976 to 1982, Professor Barry was the Director of the World Data Center for Glaciology (WDC) set up during the the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1957-58. In 1982 he became…
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Julian Gutt: The Antarctic Polarstern / CAML Expedition ANTXXIII/8
09.01.2007
Huge areas of sea floor (around 3,250 km2) have been freed up by the collapse 4 years ago of the Larsen B platform along the Antarctic Peninsula, leaving a blank spot on Antarctic maps. Polarstern, the research flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, will shortly…
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CCAMLR: Record Antarctic Haul Not a Sure Sign of Replenished Stocks
03.01.2007
The first part of the expedition ANTXXIII/8 on Polarstern focuses on biological investigations on fish stocks as a contribution to the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), following a dozen similar surveys since 1976. Researchers monitor previously fished areas located in the western part of the…
