Dr van Ommen discusses ice core dynamics, why Law Dome is an important location to extract ice cores, and how information extracted from these ice cores give us a better understanding of past climate.
Dr. Bruno Delille gives us insight into carbon cycling in Antarctica - how carbon is cycled between the atmosphere, marine life forms and deep ocean waters.
How much does meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets contribute to sea level rise? Professor David Vaughan explains.
Professor Vaughan discusses the role and importance of research programmes in providing us with projections for sea level rise over the next two centuries.
Professor David Barber discusses the current state of sea ice in the Arctic, projected future trends and their possible impacts on the Arctic and beyond.
Professor Willi Dansgaard was a Danish geophysicist and paleoclimatologist who made tremendous contributions to the study of the Earth’s past climates through the study of ice cores.
Bruno Danis talks about SCAR-MarBIN, a new related project called ANTABIF (Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility), and the importance of keeping these networks running.
Greenland Ice Sheet expert Konrad Steffen explains his research and the ice sheet's contributions to sea level rise.
As an environmental and engineering problems involving ice and permafrost, Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky discusses the current state of permafrost and what kind of research has been done and still needs to happen.
Dongmin Jin, Director of the Department of Strategy and Policy at the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), talks about Korea's polar ambitions.
After the IPY has come to close, what's next for international polar research?
Marie-Pierre Lardeau of McGill University examines food security issues in Northern Canada.