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, and Arctic archaeology.
The 2024 Polar Access Fund grantees are:
Nora Meriem Khelidj (University of Lausanne), Species interactions in a warming world: Revealing glacier retreat impact on alpine-arctic pollination networks
Grace Marsh (EPFL), Climatic Impacts of Glacial Outwash Plains in Western Greenland
Bastien Ruols (University of Lausanne), Characterization of the internal structure and geometry of the Ward Hunt ice rise using 3D drone based ground-penetrating radar
Marcel Scheiwiller (ETH Zurich), Exploring ocean circulation and ventilation in the Central Arctic: A comprehensive study using multiple tracers
Rodrigo Soria (University of Bern), Nocturnal Continuous Positive Air Pressure therapy in patients with chronic mountain sickness. A randomized clinical trial
Noah Steuri (University of Bern), ALANA: Arctic Landscape Archaeology in Northern Alaska
The Polar Access Fund is co-funded by the Swiss Polar Institute and the BNP Paribas Swiss Foundation.