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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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…
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Atmosphere, Isotopes and the Polar Record of Global Climate
27.10.2006
Dr. Pieter Tans is a Senior Scientist at the NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESLR). Dr. Tans is an acclaimed expert in carbon cycle and greenhouse gases. He has been studying atmospheric chemistry for over 30 years, utilizing every available resource from field measurements of gas exchange in current atmosphere…
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Antarctic Microorganisms as Indicators of Change
31.07.2006
SciencePoles interviewed in June 2006 Dr Annick Wilmotte, a specialist in Antarctic micro-organisms at Belgium's Liège University. Her work on cyanobacteria, found in abundance in Antarctic surface lakes, has stimulated considerable scientific and commercial interest. Dr Wilmotte is currently co-Leader of MERGE (Microbiological and Ecological Responses to Global Environmental Changes…
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Toxic European Chemicals Can Pollute the Arctic in Days
18.07.2006
Lars-Otto Reiersen, Executive Secretary of the Arctic Council's Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) was in Brussels in June, together with Dr Jon øyvind Odland (University of Tromso, Norway), and indigenous peoples' representatives, including Rune Fjellheim (Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat). The group was in Europe's capital as part of…
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Antarctic Waters Yielding up Their Secrets
10.07.2006
Filip Volckaert is Associate Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Marine Biology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He is co-coordinating an international research effort, PELAGANT, which looks to better understand the ecology and unusual biodiversity of the Antarctic marine waters. Involving participants from other Belgian universities and researchers across…
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Long Antarctic Winter Gives Rise to a Yearning to Communicate
21.06.2006
Brendon Grunewald overwintered in 1993 in Antarctica at South Africa's Sanae research station in Dronning Maud Land. Since then he has worked ceaselessly to disseminate knowledge about and stimulate interest in all things Antarctic - notably through his website 70 South.
