Until today any journey in the ice-infested waters of the Arctic Ocean was a journey into the unknown with no up-to-date detailed map of the ice conditions readily available in such a remote region of the world. Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) are now able to provide the latest satellite image from the European Space Agency satellite, Envisat and the Canadian Radarsat-1 satellite to any International Polar Year (IPY) expedition in the Arctic Ocean. Users will be able to connect to KSAT in Troms

National UK Children’s Art Competition Today, the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign announced its Young Pavement Artists Competition 2007 and is on the look out for the next Picasso. Young people in the UK aged 4-19 are invited to take part in the national art-based, educational and fundraising initiative where they get the chance to create their masterpieces on a novel canvas – the pavement. To coincide with the International Polar Year (IPY), the theme is the Arctic and Antarctic, home of polar bears and penguins. Mark Speight, from Children’s BBC and president of the Young Pavement Artists Competition said: “Pavement art ca...

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) seeks an Executive Officer to assist in the running of the SCAR Secretariat. SCAR is a body of the International Council for Science (ICSU). It facilitates and coordinates Antarctic research and identifies issues emerging from greater scientific understanding of the region that should be brought to the attention of policy makers. Its objectives and activities are described on the SCAR web site at http://www.scar.org. The primary tasks of the Executive Officer are: - to assist the Executive Director in the day-to-day operation of the Secretariat including supervising staff, coordinating programmes, analysing scientific issues concerning the A...

If you missed first part of this story, read it from here. The first part was published about three weeks ago. The second part is coming right now. Let’s continue the story… 6.3.2007. Day 6. Tuesday Today we continued the work that had been interrupted by the polar bears. This was the best day for sampling so far. Excellent weather (calm & warm) and no problems with equipment. There were a lot of ringed seals resting on the ice all over the fjord. We used one of their holes as a place for zooplankton sampling. That’s why the station has the name Seal-hole. We got zooplankton samples with WP 2 and WP ...

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has partnered with eight science and natural history museums across the United States to bring the stories of International Polar Year science expeditions to a broad audience. This education and outreach project, titled "Live from the Poles: A Multimedia Educational Experience", is funded by the US National Science Foundation. During four scientific expeditions to the polar regions, a professional photographer and science writer will chronicle the process of conducting scientific fieldwork "on the ice" through stunning still photographs, insightful written essays, podcast audio interviews, and video clips posted to the educational ...

An IPY Overview Presentation given by Dr Rhian Salmon at the National Science Teachers Association Conference in St Louis, USA, March 31st 2007. You can download the presentation in a variety of formats. Each of these is compressed as a .zip file to make the file size smaller. slides and presenters notes PDF (72MB) slides only PDF (71MB) Quick Time videos of sections of the presentation... interactive so you can click a mouse when you want the next slide. You may need to ...

You can download Dr David Carlson's IPY Opening Ceremony Presentation: The Science of IPY 2007-8, in a variety of formats. Each of these is compressed as a .zip file to make the file size smaller. slides and presenters notes PDF (24MB) slides onlyPDF (22MB) Quick Time videos of sections of the presentation... interactive so you can click a mouse when you want the next slide. You may need to download Quick Time softw...

The University of Texas at Austin Office of Public Affairs is providing the following news release from the recently held West Antarctic Links to Sea-Level Estimation (WALSE) Workshop. The article will also be posted in the "News Releases" section of the Office of Public Affairs Web site. 28th March, 2007 Statement: Thinning of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Demands Improved Monitoring to Reduce Uncertainty over Potential Sea-Level Rise AUSTIN, Texas-Polar ice experts from Europe and the United States, meeting to pursue greater scientific consensus over the fate of the world's largest fresh water reservoir, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, conclud...

ANDRILL is a USD 30 million multinational sedimentary drilling program to recover a history of paleoenvironmental changes in Antarctica. It will guide our understanding of the speed, size and frequency of past and future glacial and interglacial changes in the Antarctic region, and test global linkages between climate changes in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. On 16 December 2006, the ANDRILL program drilled to a new record depth of 1,285 metres below the seafloor from a site on the Ross Ice Shelf near Scott Base in Antarctica, making it the most successful Antarctic drilling program to date in terms o...

Duration: 3 years PhD in Polar Sciences Work location: University of Ferrara, Italy and, partially, at Milano and Varese University (Italy). Tutor: Dr PhD Nicoletta Cannone (University of Ferrara) Requirements: The candidates must provide a second level degree at least a 4 years degree, documented polar experience, specialization in Botany and fluent English (the learning of elemental Italian could be useful) and are invited to contact and send their curriculum vitae to Dr Nicoletta Cannone to the e-mail address: