We are excited to announce that the call for proposals for our latest project, the GreenLAnd Circumnavigation Expedition (GLACE), is now open. The expedition will offer an unprecedented complete circumnavigation of Greenland in a single expedition over a 2-month period in August and September 2019, providing access to the remote […]
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ACE @ POLAR2018
The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition will be present at POLAR2018, the joint conference from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research SCAR and the International Arctic Science Committee IASC taking place in Davos from 15 to 26 June. With 47 papers and posters submitted relating to ACE, the expedition will be well […]
Read MoreARICE call for ship-time proposals is open!
The EU funded project ARICE (Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium) offers fully funded transnational access to research icebreakers. It has now opened its first call for ship-time proposals to access the icebreakers CCGS Amundsen, RV Sikuliaq and PRV Polarstern. This call will remain open until the 5th of July 2018 and […]
Read MoreThe Poles are warming up. Why should we care?
Echoing the World Environment Day, the BNP Paribas Swiss Foundation and the Swiss Polar Institute are hosting an evening debate event to explore with a panel of experts the pressing matters of the Poles’ general warming. For this debate we are delighted to welcome experts on polar issues with Konrad […]
Read MorePostdoctoral Fellow for ACE-DATA project wanted
For the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition DATA project in the Aerosol Physics Group, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow. The main tasks include leading the ‘Antarctic Sea-Atmosphere Interactions Data’ (ASAID) sub-project and supporting the set-up of the ACE Database in coordination with the respective work package […]
Read MoreSwiss Polar Day 2018, a great success!
The Swiss Polar Day 2018, held on 4 April, has gathered the Swiss scientific community working in Polar regions at the ETHZ in Zurich. More than 150 students, young scientists and experienced researchers have joined the event to meet colleagues, debate on future scientific priorities and listen to international keynote […]
Read MoreSamuel Jaccard talks about ACE during the radio broadcast CQFD
Prof. Samuel Jaccard, a specialist of the carbon cycle in the Southern Ocean, was the guest of the CQFD broadcast on 16 March on RTS – La Première. ACE was one of the hot topics of the emission, as Samuel Jaccard as well as Bastien Confino, journalist for CQFD, had […]
Read MoreACE reaches out in Catalan
Rafel Simó, PI of the ACE project Surveying Organic Reactive gases and Particles across the Surface Southern Ocean (SORPASSO), has published his diary of the expedition in Catalan in form of an ebook. This beautiful patchwork of science, personal thoughts, poetic allegories and metaphors, as well as some inputs in […]
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ACE projects discuss joint data management
The ACE expedition may be over, the valorisation of the collected data is still at an early stage. The common management of numerous and huge data sets will last for many years to come. On 23 and 24 January, participants of different ACE projects gathered at EPF Lausanne in order […]
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