Swaantje GüntzelOct 15
Gletscherwasser

Watercolor series created in collaboration with the Hamburg based artist Katrin Bethge. Bethge was commissioned by Güntzel to paint landscape formations inspired by the Arctic and Antarctic. The watercolors were made with melted snow from Antarctica as well as melted glacier ice, extracted from 2.2 km depth from the Hashtag#Greenland ice sheet. Both samples were provided by Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung.

[Swaantje Güntzel, Katrin Bethge, 2022, Gletscherwasser, ongoing series, watercolor, different sizes: (4 x) 44 x 55 cm, (3 x) 37 x 45 cm, (4 x) 22,5 x 28 cm]

Fotos: Tobias Hübel

#art #conceptualart #contemporaryart #alfredwegenerinstitut #arktis #antarktis #arctic #antarctica #awi #polarresearch #polarforschung #aquarell #watercolour #blue #blau #schnee #snow #ice #eis #katrinbethge #konzeptkunst #kunsttrifftwissenschaft #artmeetsscience #greenland #grönland #icesheet
Ilan KelmanOct 9
"Antarctic Disasters - And Avoiding Them"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL3u5rsYO5c
Presentation at the 2025 Conference of SCAR SC-HASS (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Standing Committee on the Humanities and Social Sciences)
 
#Antarctic #Antarctica #PolarResearch #DisastersAvoided #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement
2025 SC-HASS conference: #1 Ilan Kelman "Antarctic Disasters – And Avoiding Them"

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GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ Sep 29

‘Ends Of The Earth,’ By Neil Shubin — Review

"A gripping story of polar exploration written by a scientist who has devoted his entire career to identifying the growing environmental threats to these regions in an increasingly warming world."

#BookReview by @GrrlScientist

#books #Nonfiction #science #Arctic #Antarctic #ClimateCrisis #PolarResearch #memoir #travelogue https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/09/29/ends-of-the-earth-by-neil-shubin---review/

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦Sep 29

‘Ends Of The Earth,’ By Neil Shubin — Review

"A gripping story of polar exploration written by a scientist who has devoted his entire career to identifying the growing environmental threats to these regions in an increasingly warming world."

#BookReview by @GrrlScientist

#books #Nonfiction #science #Arctic #Antarctic #ClimateCrisis #PolarResearch #memoir #travelogue https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/09/29/ends-of-the-earth-by-neil-shubin---review/

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦Sep 29

‘Ends Of The Earth,’ By Neil Shubin — Review

"A gripping story of polar exploration written by a scientist who has devoted his entire career to identifying the growing environmental threats to these regions in an increasingly warming world."

#BookReview by @grrlscientist

#books #Nonfiction #science #Arctic #Antarctic #ClimateCrisis #PolarResearch #memoir #travelogue https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/09/29/ends-of-the-earth-by-neil-shubin---review/

The Count of KrigsvoldAug 12
In a high-risk winter night operation, U.S. researchers were evacuated from Antarctica—highlighting the extreme challenges of polar science. #Antarctica #PolarResearch #Evacuation https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/antarctica-evacuation-us-researchers-flown-in-high-risk-winter-night-operation/ar-AA1K34Aj
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Ruth MottramAug 4

Interesting piece in Nature last week about Antarctic research infrastructure. China has just opened it's fifth station, as the US retreats from science in general, and especially polar research. Many countries in Europe are also rather weakly present in the Antarctic, and there is no common EU programme.

In Denmark, we haven't even ratified the Madrid protocols for environmental protection of Antarctica, never mind signed the Antarctic Treaty. In spite of the actually rather strong Danish input to Antarctic research in general - much of which is driven by the fact that our future sea level rise will be largely determined by what happens in the Antarctic.

#Antarctica #PolarREsearch #ArcticScience #PolarScience
Edit: broken link, apologies, try this
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02157-x

China is boosting its Antarctic research. What does that mean for the world?

With US investment in polar science under threat, scientists hope that China’s interest in the region will benefit research.

The Count of KrigsvoldJul 18
What is it like to live in Antarctica? Scientists share stories of isolation, wonder, and survival at the bottom of the world. #Antarctica #PolarResearch #ExtremeLiving https://www.the-independent.com/travel/news-and-advice/antarctica-living-inside-scientists-researchers-b2785924.html
I spent a year in Antarctica. Here’s what I learned - and what surprised me

Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research stations — and go through punishing survival training regimes to do so. Holly Baxter speaks to two former Antarctica residents about what it’s like to spend months isolated in the most remote region on earth

The Independent
nationalparksJun 13
McMurdo Station, Antarctica, today. Learn more about the camera and the station at https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm and the United States Antarctic Program station time zones https://www.usap.gov/stationtimes.cfm and #southpole #polar #antarctic #PolarResearch #landscapephotography #art #photography #seasons #nsf #usap Image credit National Science Foundation/U.S. Antarctic Program. Map of the area at https://www.usap.gov/USAPgov/scienceSupport/documents/USAP%20LogisticsMap1.pdf #map #antarctica
Adam SteerApr 11
In need of a timeline cleanse - so here are a few memories from my first Antarctic expedition - SIPEX2007. It took place in September, pretty much still winter. That was the point, to go and find a lot of ice.

And we did.

It's also a time when we thought we were going to change the game of high resolution topographic analysis of sea ice using lidar, imagery and computer vision - validated by rigorous ground observations. And use what we found to validate ship and satellite observations...

Good days.

#polarResearch #Antarctica #remoteSensing #CalVal