The Mertz fellowship aims to intensify collaboration and networking between Swiss and Australian polar and high altitude science communities. It is dedicated to PhD students and ECRs (maximum 5 years after the PhD award at the time of the proposal submission) based in Switzerland and Australia. The fellowship supports their […]
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How does accelerated climate change in the Arctic affect the ecosystems of Greenlandic Fjords? This is the central question which the GreenFjord project funded by the SPI Flagship Initiative aims to answer in the upcoming four years. Therefore each of the six individual research clusters within the project focuses on […]
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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) by allowing them to explore new ideas, fund additional field work or launch new collaborations with financial support targeted at the costs of […]
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Both SPI Flagship Initiatives have started their first field campaigns in Southern Greenland and Pamir, Central Asia. These will continue until the end of the summer. Read more about the latest news from the field on the PAMIR and GreenFjord websites. Header photograph: © Andreas Vieli, all rights reserved
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The International Glaciological Society Society and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF will hold the 2022 International Symposium on “Snow”. The symposium will be held at the Davos Congress Centre, Davos, from 25 to 30 September 2022. The symposium will focus on understanding snow and its impacts […]
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Switzerland has a longstanding scientific history in polar regions. The pioneers behind this history and their achievements are often largely unknown outside of the country. The memoirs of one of Switzerland’s greatest explorers and early polar scientist, Alfred de Quervain, are now available in Shakespeare’s language. “Across Greenland’s Ice Cap, […]
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MoMuCAMS stands for Modular, Multiplatform-Compatible Air Measurement System. Behind what at first seems like a mouthful, lies what may appear as a simple box carrying a set of instruments (Fig. 2). The truth is more complex than that… It all started in May 2020 in the Extreme Environments Research Lab […]
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In early August 2023, the Leister Foundation is planning a 14 days ship-based expedition along the coast of South and Southeast Greenland, from Narsarsuaq to Ittoqqortormiit, with purpose of facilitating sampling where it is otherwise difficult and with space for up to eight scientists. The foundation opens a call for […]
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The Swiss Polar Day 2022, the annual conference for the Swiss polar and high-altitude research community, will take place on Friday 2 September in Bern. We cordially invite you to participate in this full-day event to enlarge your scientific horizon with talks by international and Swiss experts, get an overview […]
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Atmospheric pollution in the Arctic caused by newly emitted, anthropogenic persistent pollutants is a matter of growing concern. Due to the remoteness of the Arctic and Antarctic from most known sources, the poles are a location of choice to determine if specific chemicals are persistent and prone to long-range transport. […]
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