Swiss Polar Institute – Supporting Swiss polar science

The Swiss Polar Institute is looking to complete its small and dynamic team and to recruit an Administrative Collaborator 60% – 80% Location: Energypolis Campus, Sion Entry date: 1 November 2024 or upon agreement Duration: CDI (unlimited contract) Working for a growing grant-making foundation supporting the polar and high-altitude science, […]

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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Vendée Globe 2024: Oliver Heer to compete and collect precious environmental data

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Vendée Globe 2024: Oliver Heer to compete and collect precious environmental data

Sion, 2 July 2024 – Today, Swiss skipper Oliver Heer announced that he will be among the 40 skippers to take part in the Vendée Globe 2024. This also confirms the continuation of the environmental data collection campaign to gain precious insight in the role the Southern Ocean plays in […]

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Polar Access Fund 2024: selected grantees

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Polar Access Fund 2024: selected grantees

Enabling early-career scientists to access polar and high-altitude regions to pursue their research on climate and environmental changes, this year’s Polar Access Fund supports six researchers selected by an independent panel of experts. The projects cover diverse domains such as biology, microbiology and biogeochemical cycles, applied geophysics, oceanography, high-altitude medicine, […]

PolARTS 2023: Selected tandems

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PolARTS 2023: Selected tandems

The 2023 edition of the PolARTS programme received applications from fifteen tandems of artists and researchers. In cooperation with the PolARTS initiators, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Swiss Polar Institute, a transdisciplinary jury selected three tandems’ projects that stood out in terms of quality, originality, and prospective […]

SPI-AWI workshop on current and future synergies in polar research

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SPI-AWI workshop on current and future synergies in polar research

On 1 March 2024, the jointly organised SPI-AWI workshop reflected the rich collaboration between AWI- and Swiss-based scientists. Various presentations focused on current and future joint projects in polar regions. The online workshop concluded with a dynamic discussion about future collaboration opportunities in Antarctica. Following the signing of a Memorandum […]

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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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Join the SPI Team: We are recruiting an Administrative Collaborator (60%-80%)

Join the SPI Team: We are recruiting an Administrative Collaborator (60%-80%)

Swiss Polar Class sets sail with the Vendée Globe

Swiss Polar Class sets sail with the Vendée Globe

Vendée Globe 2024: Oliver Heer to compete and collect precious environmental data

Vendée Globe 2024: Oliver Heer to compete and collect precious environmental data

Polar Access Fund 2024: selected grantees

Polar Access Fund 2024: selected grantees

PolARTS 2023: Selected tandems

PolARTS 2023: Selected tandems

SPI-AWI workshop on current and future synergies in polar research

SPI-AWI workshop on current and future synergies in polar research

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