Tag: Polar

The Polar Retrospective - A heckled polar ambition, insights from a megaberg, and biosecurity in Antarctica

Polar Journal AG Team

The Polar Retrospective looks at recent stories from around the world's polar regions. This week we look at the steering of France's polar strategy, gliders collecting data from a megaberg and a research that shows evidence that biosecurity measures work.

"Usually, when you go to the Arctic, you go with an icebreaker carrying maybe 50 scientists"

Camille Lin

Arctic diatoms live in the ice, but part of their life cycle still eludes Chris Bowler, a medal-winning biologist specialising in marine diatoms. He hopes that the Tara Polar Station - a drifting polar station adapted to sea ice - will enable him to observe the ice tunnels in which these micro-organisms hibernate during the polar night.

The Polar Retrospective - A Canadian apology, a new airport, and a French-Chilean friendship

Administrator

This week, we look at a mass-slaughter of sled-dogs, an airport expansion, and a French-Chiliean cooperation that may extent to Antarctica.

A new ship for future 'glacionauts'

Camille Lin

Since October 4, the Tara Polar Station has been floating in the port of Cherbourg. Her design is based on the traditional architecture inherited from Arctic expeditions. Her originality makes her one of the few maritime resources capable of deploying long-term scientific missions operating under minimal conditions in this little-traveled ocean.