RSS - Press Releases - International Polar Foundation http://www.polarfoundation.org/ International Polar Foundation: Connecting Polar Science and Society en-uk Wed, 31 May 2023 12:46:17 +0200 Wed, 31 May 2023 12:46:17 +0200 press@polarfoundation.org webmaster@polarfoundation.org <![CDATA[Containing Greens AB from Northern Sweden Winner of First Laurence TrĂ¢n Arctic Futures Award]]> http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/containing_greens_ab_from_northern_sweden_winner_of_first_laurence_tran_arc Brussels, 29 November 2022 - The International Polar Foundation is proud to announce the winner of the first-ever Laurence Trân Arctic Futures Award: Containing Greens AB, a startup created by young entrepreneurs based in Luleå, Sweden.

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Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:12:00 +0100 http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/containing_greens_ab_from_northern_sweden_winner_of_first_laurence_tran_arc
<![CDATA[Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station Remains Icon of Sustainability]]> http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/princess_elisabeth_antarctica_research_station_remains_icon_sustainability Brussels, May 30 2022 – After 15 years, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica - the first ever zero emission polar research station - remains the global benchmark in reducing the environmental footprint of conducting polar research and supporting scientists in their research about Earth and its climate system.

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Mon, 30 May 2022 10:36:00 +0200 http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/princess_elisabeth_antarctica_research_station_remains_icon_sustainability
<![CDATA[Former EU Arctic Ambassador Marie-Anne Coninsx Joins IPF Board of Directors]]> http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/former_eu_arctic_ambassador_marie_anne_coninsx_joins_ipf_board_of_directors Brussels, May 3rd, 2022 - Marie-Anne Coninsx, the EU’s first Ambassador at Large for the Arctic, has joined the Board of Directors of the International Polar Foundation (IPF).

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Tue, 03 May 2022 11:55:00 +0200 http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/former_eu_arctic_ambassador_marie_anne_coninsx_joins_ipf_board_of_directors
<![CDATA[FACTS RELATED TO THE COVID VIRUS AT PRINCESS ELISABETH ANTARCTICA STATION]]> http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/facts_related_to_the_covid_virus_at_princess_elisabeth_antarctica_station The International Polar Foundation (IPF) confirms that despite all sanitary measures taken staff members at the Princess Elisabeth Station were infected by the COVID virus in December 2021. The IPF would like to stress that while the COVID outbreak at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station is a situation that it is taking very seriously and monitoring very closely by our medical staff, life and work at the station has not been seriously affected by the outbreak.

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Tue, 04 Jan 2022 14:51:00 +0100 http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/facts_related_to_the_covid_virus_at_princess_elisabeth_antarctica_station
<![CDATA[The Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station Tests the “Venturi Antarctica”]]> http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/the_princess_elisabeth_antarctica_station_tests_the_venturi_antarctica Brussels, 17 December 2021 – The Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station is welcoming the team from Venturi and the new Venturi Antartica, the first electric vehicle designed to be used in polar environments. Since 10 December this year, teams at the Belgian zero-emission base have had access to an eco-friendly mode of transport for their scientific missions. This is a world first: never before has an electric vehicle with caterpillar tracks operated on the hostile White Continent.

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Fri, 17 Dec 2021 09:30:00 +0100 http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/the_princess_elisabeth_antarctica_station_tests_the_venturi_antarctica
<![CDATA[Belgian Court Dismisses Charges against Alain Hubert and the International Polar Foundation]]> http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/belgian_court_dismisses_charges_against_alain_hubert_and_the_ipf Press release

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Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:00:00 +0100 http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/belgian_court_dismisses_charges_against_alain_hubert_and_the_ipf
<![CDATA[The International Polar Foundation Remembers Longtime Friend Philippe Bodson]]> http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/international_polar_foundation_remembers_longtime_friend_philippe_bodson The International Polar Foundation is saddened to hear about the passing of its longtime friend Philippe Bodson on 4 April 2020 due to complications related to COVID-19.

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Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:38:00 +0200 http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/international_polar_foundation_remembers_longtime_friend_philippe_bodson
<![CDATA[Mission Accomplished for Belgian Glaciologists at Princess Elisabeth Station]]> http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/mission_accomplished_belgian_glaciologists_at_princess_elisabeth_station As the 10-year anniversary of the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station approaches on 15 February, the Mass2Ant research project, managed by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), is also celebrating its return from a successful research season in Antarctica led by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels - ULB). The team succeeded in drilling an ice core up to 260 metres deep (a record for their project in one season) from a new ice rise along the coast of East Antarctica, allowing them to collect an unprecedented amount of data from a remote and not widely studied region of the continent.
 

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Fri, 08 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0100 http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/mission_accomplished_belgian_glaciologists_at_princess_elisabeth_station
<![CDATA[2018 Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship Awarded to Dr. Kate Winter, Northumbria University]]> http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/2018_baillet_latour_antarctica_fellowship_awarded_to_dr._kate_winter_northu Brussels, Belgium – Dr. Kate Winter of Northumbria University, has been awarded the prestigious €150,000 Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship for her proposal “BioFe in Glacial Systems”.  

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Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:24:00 +0200 http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/2018_baillet_latour_antarctica_fellowship_awarded_to_dr._kate_winter_northu
<![CDATA[2018 BAILLET LATOUR ANTARCTICA FELLOWSHIP AWARD LAUNCH]]> http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/2018_baillet_latour_antarctica_fellowship_award_launch The Baillet Latour Fund, in partnership with the International Polar Foundation, would like to announce the opening of the 2018 Call for Proposals for the Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship Award. This grant, worth €150,000, offers an exceptional opportunity for a young scientist from any country in the world to carry out research at or in the vicinity of Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station.

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Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:10:00 +0100 http://www.polarfoundation.org/news_press/press_release/2018_baillet_latour_antarctica_fellowship_award_launch