Konrad Steffen, a glaciologist and the new scientific director of the Swiss Polar Institute (SPI), has been involved in polar research for the past 40 years. His work has focused primarily on the Arctic, particularly the changes taking place within Greenland’s ice sheet. He is also a professor at ETH […]

Six months after the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition ended, the teams that ran the 22 scientific projects are hard at work sorting through the many samples they collected. Some preliminary findings were announced during a conference in Crans Montana organized by the Swiss Polar Institute. Nearly 30,000 samples were taken during […]

ACE’s next step is taking place in St. Petersburg, in Russia, home port of the vessel Akademik Treshnikov, that carried the expedition all around Antarctica. There, the Consulate General of Switzerland, in cooperation with the Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) and the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), is organising a […]

The journey is not over yet. The scientific teams involved in the Antarctic circumnavigation expedition (ACE) are now working hard in their labs to analyze the samples they collected during the expedition. Their first results will be disclosed in September 11-12, at a conference entitled High Altitudes meet High Latitudes: […]

Chief scientist on the ACE expedition and an expert on the White Continent, David Walton shares his thoughts and impressions about the three-month trip and the science undertaken on board. He knows Antarctica. A scientist with the British Antarctic Survey for 50 years, David Walton has traveled mto the White […]

A voir absolument: l’émission “Thalassa”, le magazine de la mer et des océans, propose un long reportage sur l’expédition ACE. Not to be missed: an in-depth report about ACE expedition will be broadcast on “Thalassa”, a programm dedicated to oceans and seas on the French channel France 3.   Rediffusions: […]

Incredible landscapes, astonishing ice formations, diversified wildlife, numerous opportunities for scientific work and studies…. Antarctica provides beautiful photographs! From May 11th until June 5th, 2017, a set of fifty pictures taken on the white continent and around are exposed in the ArtLab building at EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland. This exhibition shows […]