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ENO_02 Balleny Islands, aerial photo mapping survey

Antarctica InSync (International Science & Infrastructure for Synchronous Observation) is a new major programme led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). The programme aims to better understand, protect and sustainably manage the Southern Ocean and Antarctica in the framework of the UN Decade […]

Access to the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen

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Access to the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen

Following the agreement between Université Laval (ULaval), the Institut Nordique du Québec (INQ) and the Swiss Polar Institute (SPI), researchers based in Switzerland can have access as visiting scientists to the vessel’s annual Arctic missions as part of collaborative research projects between teams from the SPI network and researchers from […]

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SPI Exploratory Grants & SPI Technogrants 2024 – Calls for proposals are open

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SPI Exploratory Grants & SPI Technogrants 2024 – Calls for proposals are open

The calls for proposals for the SPI Exploratory Grants and SPI Technogrants are now open! The SPI Exploratory Grants support Swiss-based scientists active in polar regions (including remote high-altitude regions such as the Andes and the Himalayas) by allowing them to launch new short-term ideas such as pilot projects, fund additional fieldwork, or initiate […]

Mertz Fellowship 2024 – the call is now open

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Mertz Fellowship 2024 – the call is now open

The 3rd call for proposals for the Mertz Fellowship is now open. Launched in 2022, the programme aims to promote collaboration and networking between Swiss and Australian polar and high-altitude science communities, with a focus on early-career researchers. The Mertz Fellowship is dedicated to PhD students and early-career researchers (max. […]

The SPI reviews its grants to address sustainability in Swiss polar and high-altitude research

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The SPI reviews its grants to address sustainability in Swiss polar and high-altitude research

Starting this summer with the SPI Exploratory Grants and the SPI Technogrants, the Swiss Polar Institute has reviewed its funding instruments to assess and lower the environmental footprint of Swiss scientific research in polar and high-altitude regions. Changes include cleantech and alternative data acquisition methods. Applicants will also be encouraged […]

Swiss Polar Class sets sail with the Vendée Globe

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Swiss Polar Class sets sail with the Vendée Globe

In collaboration with Swiss skipper Oliver Heer, the free educational programme Swiss Polar Class will publish new learning content focused on oceans during the famous Vendée Globe race. Available in French and German, this new module for primary schools offers a novel way to better understand the role oceans play […]

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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 Found: 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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SPI to support Swiss participation in Antarctica InSync

SPI to support Swiss participation in Antarctica InSync

Access to the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen

Access to the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen

SPI Exploratory Grants & SPI Technogrants 2024 – Calls for proposals are open

SPI Exploratory Grants & SPI Technogrants 2024 – Calls for proposals are open

Mertz Fellowship 2024 – the call is now open

Mertz Fellowship 2024 – the call is now open

The SPI reviews its grants to address sustainability in Swiss polar and high-altitude research

The SPI reviews its grants to address sustainability in Swiss polar and high-altitude research

Swiss Polar Class sets sail with the Vendée Globe

Swiss Polar Class sets sail with the Vendée Globe

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