CO2 hits record highs in the Southern hemisphere Last month, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) as measured at Amsterdam Island, in the southern Indian Ocean, for the first time exceeded the symbolic value of 400 ppm1, or 0.04%. The CO2 concentrations recorded at the Amsterdam Island research station are the lowest in the… Lire la suite
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The AGM XXVIII : 16–18 August 2016 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for COMNAP MEMBERS. AGM information can be found at: https://www.comnap.aq/SitePages/AGM2016.aspx The COMNAP AGM XXVIII (2016) will be hosted by the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), Goa, India. The AGM is for COMNAP Members, invited Observer organisations and invited Expert organisations only. The… Lire la suite
Christelle Guesnon, next observatory engineer to the Arctic station AWIPEV at Ny Alesund in Svalbard, show us these beautiful pictures!
Paolo Verzone, sent at the AWIPEV station in Ny Alesund for a photo essay, reveals in our website slidder, these first achievements …
Our COMNAP Symposium 2016, “Wintering-over Challenges”, will be held in Goa, India, hosted by our colleagues at NCAOR. Call for submission of abstracts for consideration for oral and poster presentations is NOW OPEN. Please see attached abstract submission forms or see: https://www.comnap.aq/SitePages/Symposium2016.aspx for further information and for submission forms in docx format. DEADLINE for abstract submission… Lire la suite
New film realized by Aurélien Prudor about the ERC Earlylife programme . A part has been filmed at Terres australes et Antarctiques française with the 109 and 394 IPEV programmes.
On February 3rd the Chair of the European Polar Board (EPB), Maaike Vancauwenberghe, and the Director-General of ESA, Jan-Dietrich Woerner, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at ESA’s HQ in Paris. ESA DG signs MoU with EPB ©ESA–Nadia Imbert-Vier, 2016 The MoU provides a framework for a wider cooperation between ESA and the EPB, and… Lire la suite
The plaque of Pourquoi-Pas? has been replaced on its cairn in Petermann Island by the crew of L’Austral, a vessel of the Compagnie du Ponant During his second voyage in Antarctica, Jean-Baptiste Charcot stayed on Petermann Island (Antarctic Peninsula) from January to November 1909. He erected on this island, at the top of Megalestris hill,… Lire la suite
Incredible new penguin-cam video captures life under the Antarctic ice New footage released shows a penguin-eye view under the ice in Antarctic waters using a tiny camera mounted on the back of an Adélie penguin. The footage was captured in Terre Adélie – ‘the land of the Adélies’ – by scientists from the French (1091… Lire la suite