Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by M. C. Kennicutt II, president of SCAR -- 1. The beginning -- 2. The early years (1958-67) -- 3. The consolidation years ...

The Polar Research Board (PRB) enhances understanding of polar science issues, ensures that polar research is responsive to the needs of the United States, maintains U.S. awareness of and ...

The 11 th Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research conference was held in Pucón, Chile August 19-23, 2024. Fifteen-hundred academics, researchers, and scientists specializing in Antarctica met to ...

Humanity's oldest and longest-running climate experiment, the International Polar Year (IPY), will run for the fifth time in ...

Foreword / Prince Albert II of Monaco -- Preface / Paul Arthur Berkman [and others] -- Science as a tool of diplomacy. Building the international legal framework for Antarctica / Marie Jacobsson -- ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency funds scientific and technological development across the United States and its territories. It also funds research and maintains ...

This ad hoc committee will provide guidance to the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs on future directions for Southern Ocean and Antarctic nearshore and coastal research. The ...

A newly updated Antarctic Digital Database is released today (12 May 2020). Aimed at the science community, the maps include updates to the ice shelf front around Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, ...

A deadly type of bird flu has been confirmed on the mainland of Antarctica for the first time, scientists said, a potential risk for the southern region's huge penguin colonies. "This discovery ...

Ecology and evolutionary biology professors Roxanne Beltran and Dan Costa have recently been appointed by separate, wide-reaching organizations to serve on committees where they will provide ...