Press Releases
View the full archive of International Polar Foundation press releases published since the organisation's founding in 2002.
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Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellow of 2014 publishes in Nature Climate Change
Dr. Jan Lenaerts, recipient of the 2014 Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship for his BENEMELT project, has just published some of his research in Nature Climate Change.
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2016 Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship Awarded to Dr. Lori Ziolkowski
Brussels, Belgium, 9 December 2016 – A Canadian researcher, Dr. Lori Ziolkowski, has been awarded the prestigious €150,000 Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship for her proposal to study radiocarbon estimates of microbial activity …
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The International Polar Foundations responds to the latest accusations in the press
The International Polar Foundation responds to the latest allegations against it and clarifies misconceptions about its activities related to the flagship project of the Foundation for Belgium on the international …
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Alain Hubert receives Royal Geographical Society honour in London
Alain Hubert received the Royal Geographical Society’s Geographical Award 2015 in recognition of his many efforts to raise awareness about polar research in Antarctica on 1st June in London.
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AWI scientists at Princess Elisabeth station in Antarctica discover possible meteorite impact site
During their stay at Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth station in East Antarctica, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Germany have …