11th Arctic Futures Symposium an Online Success
While the COVID-19 pandemic kept the symposium from taking place phsycially in Brussels, the 11th annual Arctic Futures Symposium managed to be a highly successful online event.
News Archive
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2020-2021 Antarctic Season Underway
The time has finally arrived! The 2020-2021 Antarctic season upon us! The BELARE (Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition) team arrived in Cape Town, South Africa at the beginning of November, …
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Arctic Futures Symposium 11th Edition Is Approaching!
After many interesting editions over the last decade, it is with extreme pleasure that the International Polar Foundation and its many partners from the Arctic community wish to invite …
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Hendrik Huwald Discusses Swiss Research Projects at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
Hendrik Huwald is a scientist at the Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences (CRYOS) and a lecturer at the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Section at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in …
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Stefania Gili on Studying Atmospheric Particles in Antarctica
Stefania Gili is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire G-Time (Geochemistry: Isotope, Mineral and Element Tracing) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium). Stefania was selected in 2018 for …
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IPF Remembers Prof. Konrad “Koni” Steffen
The International Polar Foundation was deeply saddened to hear of the fatal accident in Greenland that befell Prof. Konrad “Koni” Steffen. Prof. Steffen had been in the north …
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Alexander Mangold Explains the Contributions of His Research to Polar Science, YOPP, and the IPCC
Dr Alexander Mangold is a researcher who has been working with the Observations Department at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (KMI-IRM) since 2005. He manages the institute’s research …
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Frank Pattyn on the Importance of Studying the Surface Mass Balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Frank Pattyn in a Belgian glaciologist and ice sheet modeller. He is the director of the Laboratoire de Glaciologie at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Professor Pattyn …
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Valentina Savaglia Reflects on MICROBIAN’s Last Season at PEA and the Next Generation of Researchers
Valentina Savaglia is a PhD student supported by a FRIA/FNRS grant specialising in cyanobacterial diversity, genetics and biogeography in Antarctic regions at the Centre d’Ingé …
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Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship Laureate presents research at EGU General Assembly
On Thursday 7 May, Dr. Kate Winter from Northumbria University, presented the work she has been doing for the last two seasons at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica at the European Geosciences …