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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Top Predators Seen Onboard the Ivan Papanin
03.07.2008
Follow Alain De Broyer and René-Marie Lafontaine throughout their journey to Breid Bay, East Antarctica. You will discover some common bird species found in the southernmost latitudes of the Earth.
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Charlie Zender and Florent Dominé: Measuring Albedo
13.06.2008
This picture gallery illustrates the work of Charlie Zender and Florent Dominé. Dr Dominé created a new optical device used for measuring snow reflectance. Both men are using it to measure snow reflectance with significant amounts of black carbon in it in order to verify Dr. Zender's models.
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Stephen Warren: Sampling Arctic Snow
13.06.2008
This picture gallery illustrate the work of Dr Stephen Warren regarding Black Carbon and Arctic Snow. He is taking Arctic snow samples from different locations across the Arctic and bringing them to labs to be analysed. This project is a follow-up to the broad-scale survey of Arctic snow that Clarke and Noone were involved with back in 1983-84.
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Antarctic Stations and IPY 2007-2008
11.06.2008
One of the lasting legacies of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08 will be a series of high-tech scientific research stations recently completed, or in the process of being constructed in Antarctica. This gallery presents a few of these stations.
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Adélie Penguins
20.08.2007
This is a picture gallery of Adélie penguins. Some pictures have been kindly provided by Cara Sucher; others are from the International Polar Foundation. They have been provided to illustrate Meredith Hooper's interview regarding her book, The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica.
