Links and resources about polar science and climate change
The websites below can quickly help build a wide panel of resources covering the scope of polar sciences & climate change. Categories on the left can be used to narrow your choice.
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Alfred Wegener Institut for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
Although this website is a bit hard to use due to a complex content architecture and navigation schemes, it is certainly worth exploring. A website by scientists for scientists, giving detailed information regarding research programs and their results.
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Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)
APECS is an international and interdisciplinary organization for undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, early faculty members, educators and others with interests in Polar Regions and the wider cryosphere. Its aims are to stimulate interdisciplinary and international research collaborations, and develop effective future leaders in polar research, education and outreach.
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Belgian Polar Platform
The Belgian Polar Platform informs scientists, policy makers and the general public about the Belgian history and science in the poles. It shows pages on research programmes, projects, teams and scientists. The Belgian Polar Platform also includes news and links related to Belgian polar educational activities, as well as an overview of polar campaigns performed by belgian scientists.
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Canadian Polar Commission
Established in 1991 as the lead agency in the area of polar research, the Canadian Polar Commission has responsibility for: monitoring, promoting, and disseminating knowledge of the polar regions; contributing to public awareness of the importance of polar science to Canada; enhancing Canada's international profile as a circumpolar nation; and recommending polar science policy direction to government.
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Census of Marine Life
The Census of Marine Life is a growing global network of researchers in more than 70 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans -- past, present, and future.

