Belgian researcher Steven Goderis talks about his involvement in an expedition to search for meteorites with a Japanese team during the 51st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE 51).
SciencePoles caught up with Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration (CAA) to hear about the goals of the 26th CHINARE and China's future polar research plans.
John Hobbie explains the changes that have taken place over the past 30+ years in the Toolik Lake region and discusses what this means for the future of Alaska's North Slope.
The DAMOCLES symposium gathered more than 150 scientists in Brussels. They debated discussed the results of their observations and models.
Glaciologist and ice sheet modeller Frank Pattyn explains what ice sheet grounding lines are. He then details what their potential impacts on future sea level rise could be.
Lene Kielsen Holm explains Inuit efforts to preserve their indigenous knowledge and heritage in the face of climate change and socio-economics factors.
Claudio Aporta explains his research to document and map the ways in which Canadian Inuit use and talk about sea ice both yesterday and today.
Igor Krupnik from the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center discusses an IPY project trying to preserve indigenous Arctic people's knowledge of sea ice.
The SIKU project aims at better understanding the relationship between Arctic indigenous communities and sea ice and how their knowledge and use of sea ice has evolved in the face of climate change and other factors.
Martin Siegert discusses current understanding and ongoing research of Antarctic subglacial lakes.
Darrell Kaufman explains the methods used in his study that reconstructs Arctic temperature history over the last 2,000 years.
Darrell Kaufman tells what researchers know about how the Arctic climate has changed since the end of the last Ice Age 11,000 years ago.