The 50th dataset resulting from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) has just been published. Download openly and freely accessible data on dissolved trace metal concentrations from the Southern Ocean. Read more about trace metal and nutrient dynamics across broad biogeochemical gradients in the Indian and Pacific sectors of the Southern […]
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Session on the Southern Ocean in a changing climate at the EGU General Assembly 2020
The upcoming EGU General Assembly 2020 in Vienna (3–8 May 2020) will host a session on “The Southern Ocean in a changing climate: open-ocean physical and biogeochemical processes”. This session provides a great platform to present some of the major outcomes of the ACE expedition to the community and a […]
Read MoreAdding value to the data collected during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition
A collaboration between the Swiss Polar Institute, the Paul Scherrer Institute and the Swiss Data Science Center, the ACE-DATA project is using powerful statistical methods to investigate the interplay between the sea and atmosphere in the Southern Ocean. Opening up the data from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition through a platform […]
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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 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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“We urgently need to coordinate our efforts.”
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 […]
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Unexpected facets of Antarctica emerge from the labs
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 […]
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ACE under the spotlight in Russia
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 […]
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