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.
-
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…
-
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.
-
Setting the Ice Sheet Record Straight
30.05.2006
Dr Carlota Escutia has worked in the United States, and recently in her native Spain at the CSIC-Granada University, on understanding better the factors causing formation of the Antarctic ice sheets " around 34 million years ago " and what has since influenced its growth or contraction. Her important new…
-
Climate Change Impacts Differ for Little-Known Arctic and Antarctic Seafloor Life
15.05.2006
Sciencepoles talked to Dr. Julian Gutt, of Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute, just after his address, at the BEPOLES workshop, on "Climate-induced biodiversity shift in polar benthic communities?", which looked at how climate change might affect ecosystems on polar sea floors. Towards the end of 2006, Dr Gutt will lead a…
-
IceCube: An Antarctic View of the Neutrino Universe
08.05.2006
Sciencepoles interviewed Professor Francis Halzen, from the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, at the recent BEPOLES workshop (23 March). Professor Halzen is involved at the very edge of astronomical discovery as he works on an exciting new neutrino telescope, ICECUBE, gathering information about "the universe's most violent…
-
Time Travelling to See How Changes in the Greenhouse Effect Have Caused Changes in Climate
26.04.2006
On March 23rd, SciencePoles spoke with Dominique Raynaud from France's Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, who has worked for some time on understanding the "story of the ice" what the ice cores extracted in recent years from the polar ice are telling us about the planet's climate history.…
-
Australia Investigates Its Frozen Neighbour
20.02.2006
Australia is very active in Antarctic research - reflecting proximity to the frozen continent and a strong Australian scientific community. Australia maintains three stations on the Antarctic continent " Mawson, Davis, and Casey " and a subantarctic station on Macquarie Island. Australia's icebreaker, RSV Aurora Australis is the platform for…
-
Antarctica New Zealand: From IGY to IPY
20.02.2006
For New Zealand, the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08 represents an opportunity to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Antarctic research station, Scott Base, and to strengthen and extend the scope of its research activities in the Antarctic. For the first time in its history, Antarctica New Zealand (ANZ) plans…
-
European Polar Board, IPEV, Concordia, the IPY and Climat Change
09.12.2005
SciencePoles interviewed Dr Gerard Jugie, Chairman of the European Polar Board and Director of the Institut Paul Emile Victor (IPEV) - the French polar institute - about the IPEV polar research programme and plans for the International Polar Year 2007-2008. The interview took place in Brussels in the context of…
-
Polar View Space Technology at the Service of Polar Research
30.11.2005
SciencePoles interviewed Dr Charles Randell, the Canadian Vice-President of C-CORE (a global corporation providing innovative engineering solutions to clients) about the development of the Polar View Earth Observation programme.
