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Website. www.spri.cam.ac.uk. The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) is a centre for research into the polar regions and glaciology worldwide. It is a sub-department of the Department of Geography in the University of Cambridge, located on Lensfield Road in the south of Cambridge. SPRI was founded by Frank Debenham in 1920 as the national ...
Sodankylä Arctic Research Centre [32] Sodankylä Finland 1949 30 20 Stanisław Baranowski Spitsbergen Polar Station: Werenskioldbreen, Svalbard, Norway Poland 1971 Summit Station: Near summit of the Greenland ice sheet, Greenland United States 1989 50 5 Thule Research Station [33] Pituffik, Greenland Denmark 1995 10 Toolik Field Station [34]
Cambridge Bay is the largest stop for passenger and research vessels traversing the Arctic Ocean's Northwest Passage, [12] a disputed area which the Government of Canada claims are Canadian Internal Waters, while other nations state they are either territorial waters or international waters. [13] [14]
Scientific career. Institutions. University of Cambridge. Peter Wadhams ScD (born 14 May 1948) is emeritus [1] professor of Ocean Physics, and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. He is best known for his work on sea ice.
Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. Institute of Arctic Biology. International Arctic Buoy Program. International Arctic Research Center. International Arctic Science Committee. National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research. North Greenland Ice Core Project. National Snow and Ice Data Center.
The word Arctic comes from the Greek word ἀρκτικός (arktikos), "near the Bear, northern" [4] and from the word ἄρκτος (arktos), meaning bear. [5] The name refers either to the constellation known as Ursa Major, the "Great Bear", which is prominent in the northern portion of the celestial sphere, or to the constellation Ursa Minor, the "Little Bear", which contains the celestial ...
Russia and the United States are among eight countries with territory in the resource-rich Arctic. China calls itself a "near-Arctic" state and wants to create a "Polar Silk Road" in the Arctic, a ...
One 2011 Cambridge University study predicted that the Arctic would be free of summer ice by 2015. [18] No models predict that the winter sea ice will disappear during this century. [19] An ice-free Arctic has major strategic and economic ramifications for global shipping, as vessels will potentially be able to traverse the Arctic Ocean.