Picture galleries
This section regroups all picture galleries published on SciencePoles alongside some articles or news. It's currently a bit of a work in progress but more will be added with future articles.
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Inuit Food Insecurity
27.07.2010
In order to get a better idea of food security issues Canadian Inuit are facing from the perspective of the Inuit, Marie-Pierre Lardeau and her colleauges from McGill University in Canada got people from the community of Iqaluit, Nunavut involved in their photovoice project. The reulsts were telling. They covered at lot of the issues that they felt influenced their own food security. The participants placed them into one of four themes: The role of country food and how important it was for their well-being as well as the importance of having access to it through traditional Inuit sharing practices; The importance of these community programs, how they’d like to have access to them every week (if not for these programs these people would probably be knocking on other peoples’ doors to ask for food); How expensive it is to live in the Arctic; How country food is more expensive than food shipped in from the south (which also addressed addictions to alcohol and tobacco a lot fo these people have).
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Cryosat 2
03.06.2010
After being successfully launched on 8th April 2010, ESA's CryoSat-2 has started its mission to measure the rate of change in the thickness of the Earth's land and sea ice. The satellite is unique in that it has an orbit taking it to within 2° of the poles, closer than any previous satellite. It also has a SAR Interferometric Radar Altimeter (SIRAL), a new generation of altimeter that will allow it to measure changes at the edges of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets with greater accuracy than ever before. During CryoSat-2's commissioning phase, ground truthing campaigns will continue to be carried whenever possible to cross-validate the data it collects.
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Astronomy at Dome C: Concordia Station and the ARENA Network
10.05.2010
The French and Italians have been investigating astronomical observation projects at Concordia Station at Dome C under an EC-funded action called ARENA (Antarctic Research, a European Network for Astrophysics). The project is a consortium of 22 European and Australian partners including polar institutes, research laboratories and industrial companies funded by the European Commission as a coordination action under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The aim of the project was to gather existing atmospheric observations important for determining astronomical observation conditions and devise a suite of programmes to take advantage of the ideal astronomical observational conditions at DOME C. The project lasted for four years starting in 2006 and ending in December 2009.
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Princess Elisabeth Antarctica: Changing the Way We Think about Using Energy
03.05.2010
The Princess Elisabeth Station is the first station ever to run on a « zero emission » principle. This feat, however, was only made possible by designing a specific way of managing power in an energy-autonomous building. In the following picture gallery, you will be able to see for yourselves the systems and some of the people that have participated in achieving the « zero emission » aim.
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JARE 51 Meteorite Hunting Mission a Success
22.02.2010
The JARE 51 Mission to collect meteorites in the Eastern Sør Rondane Mountains was a success. The team, which spent teh better part of four weeks in the field, found 635 meteorite fragments ranging in size from a few grams to 5 kg. Most of them were ordinary chondrites; however some are possible iron meteorites and others ureilites, although they will need to be taken back to a lab for further anaylsis. The team is very happy with the results!
