During the Polarstern’s 2019-2020 expedition, Amy Macfarlane and colleagues took snow samples for a full year. This fieldwork led to a discovery that would eventually win her the Prix de Quervain 2024. Photo: Delphin Ruché The Swiss research prize will be...
A Windracers ULTRA drone on one of its first missions in Antarctica in January 2024 for the British Antarctic Survey. Photo: Windracers As part of a new partnership, Windracers is providing the Norwegian research institute NORCE with two new ULTRA MK1 drones. From the...
Geologically, the Kerguelen Islands are over 100,000 million years old. Here, the Larzac plateau overlooks the north-western part of the Courbet peninsula, with the Chasseneige, Hooker, Trapèze (807 m altitude) and Lyall mountains. Image: Camille Lin Take a look under...
It has been known for several years that plastic fibers can even be found in the snow of the high Arctic and Antarctic. What was puzzling, however, was why hardly any other shapes of microplastics were found. Photo: Michael Wenger Why are microplastics found in the...
The different teams of the crew took it in turns, every three hours, to make their way through the passage and keep to the expedition’s deadlines. Image: Alexis Blanc / Pacifique The Que Sera has been taken over by Pacifique, a Geneva-based foundation that...
