A team of Bouygues, Stantec and Mott Macdonald will modernise Australia’s Davis Research Station in east Antarctica. The $250m renovation will modernise the 1957 facility with a main powerhouse, vehicle… The post Bouygues team to renovate Antarctic research centre appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Five well-publicised geoengineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change in the polar regions are "extremely unlikely" to work, and are a risk to the environment, say NZ and international experts in a new paper. The researchers looked at ideas like injecting aerosol clouds into the atmo| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the labmates of the PhD student craft a graduation hat from a mishmash of scrap cardboard and memorabilia. Hours of work go into these beloved pieces, and you can often find these hand-m...| Cryospheric Sciences
As we are starting into our annual blog summer break, we reflect on what summer can mean for polar researchers (including some fieldwork saudades ). As an Arctic or Alpine cryo-scientist, chances are that you are somewhere in between vacation, fieldwork or trying to work through data while everyone else is free. If you, like us, did not have your vacation yet or do not have any fieldwork coming up this summer (or it’s been a while because you do your fieldwork on the Southern hemisphere), l...| Cryospheric Sciences
