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    InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship: Promoting Research of Young Polar Scientists

    01.02.2012

    SciencePoles had a chat with Nathalie Van Isacker from the International Polar Foundation (IPF) about an annual €150,000 Fellowship for young polar scientists the IPF has set up in conjunction with the InBev-Baillet Latour Fund called the InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship.

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    Anne Aghion: Filming Ice People

    03.10.2008

    Anne Aghion is an Emmy award winning filmmaker fascinated by people who survive extreme circumstances. Her work has been praised by critics for conveying, without preconception, a strong sense of the people and places she covers. For ICE PEOPLE, a feature-length documentary that explores the physical, emotional and spiritual adventure…

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    Belare 2007-08 Participants Subject to Sleep Study

    04.12.2007

    During the Antarctic summer, there is constant daylight. This means that there is no "lights off" signal to stimulate the secretion of melatonin in the saliva and cause drowsiness to take over in the evening, which is what normally happens to a person exposed to regular day-night rhythms. What is…

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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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