During the Antarctic summer, 191 people live in Villa Las Estrellas, working and researching at the Chilean Antarctic station Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalvo on King George Island. Photo: Mefisto29 / Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Chilean mobile communications company...
Field work for Polar research is very fascinating to see for the general public. But once that part is over, people tend to loose interest in the results. Therefore, researchers should train their storytelling skills. (Image: M.Schiller, AWI) Polar regions play a...
The largest station in Antarctica is home to around 1,000 people and offers many things to make life reasonably pleasant. But in terms of communication, McMurdo is a basket case, which makes the work of the researchers and technical staff very difficult. (Image: Cody...
Sometimes bad space weather causes our communication systems to break down – particularly in the Arctic. For this reason Ph.D. fellow Sarah Schultz Beeck is developing maps, showing where in Greenland the space weather causes bad or no connection. In an emergency...
The idea of the U.S. working group is that all institutions that have previously kept data on Antarctica to themselves will store it centrally, creating a place where anyone doing work with Antarctica as part of the question is welcome. Image: Michael Wenger...