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The early-career researchers of the "Génération Cryosphère" project with Audrey Azoulay (Director General, UNESCO), Frederik Paulsen (President, Fondation Albédo pour la Cryosphère), Jérôme Chappellaz (President of the Scientific Council, Fondation Albédo pour la Cryosphère), Heïdi Sevestre, and Matthieu Tordeur.

On 8 June 2025 in Nice, the launch of the UN Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences brought together researchers from the “Génération Cryosphère” programme, including three early-career scientists from Switzerland, to meet and exchange ahead of the One Ocean Expedition. Proposed by Swiss Polar Institute, three francophone researchers Delphine […]

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Ocean data collection continues aboard Team Malizia’s new research vessel

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Ocean data collection continues aboard Team Malizia’s new research vessel

The Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) and the Swiss skipper Oliver Heer are lending their OceanPack to the new research vessel Malizia Explorer this year. SPI will thus continue to enable data analysis with ETH Zurich and the Universities of Bern and Lausanne, highlighting once more how the offshore sailing and […]

New guide to publishing polar data now available

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New guide to publishing polar data now available

Produced by SCADM, ADC and Southern Ocean Observing System Data Management Sub-Committee, the guide aims to provide the polar research community with key concepts and tips to ensure the published data are FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable).

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SPI FOREL Grants: the call for proposals is open

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SPI FOREL Grants: the call for proposals is open

The SPI FOREL Grants support Swiss-based scientists who wish to use the FOREL Research Platform in coastal polar and sub-polar regions for pilot projects, additional fieldwork, and logistics. The call is open until 15 June 2025 for fieldwork in 2026.

Open call for applications: INQ-SPI-IPEV CASCADES Expedition

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Open call for applications: INQ-SPI-IPEV CASCADES Expedition

The Institut Nordique du Québec (INQ), the Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) and the French Polar Institute Paul-Émile Victor (IPEV) are launching the CASCADES expedition. The call is now open until 2 June 2025 and welcomes proposals from research groups in Switzerland and France, and from the Canadian Transforming Climate Action programme, with fieldwork to be carried out in summer and autumn 2026.

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Short-term funding opportunity with the FOREL Research Platform

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Short-term funding opportunity with the FOREL Research Platform

In summer 2025, FOREL will be operating along the western coast of Greenland and welcomes Swiss-led scientific projects to work on board during the months of July and August. SPI is pleased to offer interested scientists employed at a Swiss public research institution the opportunity to join this Swiss-operated research platform in the Arctic during this timeframe.

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Polar Access Fund: Artificial ice reservoir (ice stupa) built to enhance water management in Ladakh

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Polar Access Fund: iceberg fill the Narsarsuaq fjord in Greenland.

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SPI Exploratory Grant: Fieldwork on vegetation patterns above Zackenberg Research Station in Greenland

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Calving iceberg on Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, summer 2023. The scale is hard to capture, but this iceberg is rising up more than twice the height of the calving front which is approximately 130-150 meters high.

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A Polar Access Fund grantee is recovering GPS data in order to monitor a landslide near the Portage glacier (Alaska).

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SPI Technogrant: Prototype for a low-cost and robust electrical resistivity tomography monitoring system for remote permafrost environments

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Polar Access Fund: Challenging access to fieldwork site on a debris-covered glacier in the Garhwal mountain range in northern India

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Field & Summer School: International Geochronology Summer School, Switzerland

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Three young Swiss researchers to embark on the One Ocean Expedition with “Génération Cryosphère”

Three young Swiss researchers to embark on the One Ocean Expedition with “Génération Cryosphère”

Ocean data collection continues aboard Team Malizia’s new research vessel

Ocean data collection continues aboard Team Malizia’s new research vessel

New guide to publishing polar data now available

New guide to publishing polar data now available

SPI FOREL Grants: the call for proposals is open

SPI FOREL Grants: the call for proposals is open

Open call for applications: INQ-SPI-IPEV CASCADES Expedition

Open call for applications: INQ-SPI-IPEV CASCADES Expedition

Short-term funding opportunity with the FOREL Research Platform

Short-term funding opportunity with the FOREL Research Platform

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