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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Alexander Robinson: Consequences of a Warming Arctic on the Greenland Ice Sheet and Beyond
27.04.2012
Dr. Alexander Robinson from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and his colleagues at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have produced a new model that indicates the Greenland Ice Sheet might be more vulnerable to climate warming that previous estimates predicted. What’s noteworthy aobut the study, published in Nature Climate…
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Alexander Robinson: Improving Predictions of Future Greenland Ice Sheet Melt
18.04.2012
A new model looking at future melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet generated some buzz in the media a few weeks ago. Put together by Dr. Alexander Robinson, a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and his colleagues at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the model predicts that only a very…
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Björn-Martin Sinnhuber: Explaining Arctic Ozone Depletion
02.03.2012
A researcher at the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Dr. Björn-Martin Sinnhuber is an expert in the study of trace gasses in the atmosphere using remote sensing technologies, including a wide variety of satellites.
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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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Martin Jakobsson: Arctic Sea Ice Extent, Its History and How It Affects the Carbon Cycle
27.12.2011
Professor Martin Jakobsson is a professor at Stockholm University who has conducted extensive research on Arctic paleoclimates, with a focus on the oceanographic and environmental history of the planet’s polar oceans and their sea ice cover. Using geophysical mapping methods, he has also been involved in studying the morphology of…
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Martin Jakobsson: Investigating Arctic Paleoclimates
29.11.2011
A professor at Stockholm University who has conducted extensive research on Arctic paleoclimates, Professor Martin Jakobsson’s main research interests include the oceanographic and environmental history of the planet’s polar oceans and their sea ice cover. Using geophysical mapping methods, he has also been involved in studying the morphology of the seafloor.
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José Xavier: Winner of the 2011 Martha T. Muse Prize
18.10.2011
Dr. José Xavier from the Institute of Marine Research of the University of Coimbra in Portugal, and the British Antarctic Survey in UK, has conducted outstanding research on the predator-prey dynamics that sustain populations of albatrosses, penguins and other top predators in the Southern Ocean. He recently published a comprehensive…
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Tas van Ommen: East Antarctica’s Vulnerability to Climate Change and the Search for the Oldest Ice
22.09.2011
SciencePoles continues its interview with Dr. Tas van Ommen, a paleoclimatologist from the Australian Antarctic Division who has been focusing his attention on studying ice cores extracted from the Antarctic Ice Sheet in an effort to improve reconstructions of past climates and calibrate ice core data against modern meteorological data.…
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Tas van Ommen: What Ice Cores from Law Dome Can Tell Us about Past and Current Climates
12.08.2011
As a paleoclimatologist from the Australian Antarctic Division, Dr. Tas van Ommen spends his time studying ice cores extracted from the Antarctic Ice Sheet in an effort to have ever clearer reconstructions of past climates as well as calibrate ice core data against modern meteorological data.
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Bruno Delille: A Closer Look at Carbon Cycling in Antarctica
27.06.2011
Dr. Bruno Delille is a sea ice researcher and oceanographer from the University of Liège in Belgium. He has been involved in past research projects such as BELCANTO (BELgian research on Carbon uptake in the ANTarctic Ocean), which was studying carbon cycling (how carbon is cycled between atmosphere, marine life…
