Birefringence in the service of fashion. Together, a designer and an artist-director have created garments whose prints are inspired by the colours and patterns of sea ice when viewed through a microscope with a polarising filter. The result was presented at New York...
Where should the boot liners go? (Photo: Jochen Bettzieche / SLF) Matthias Jaggi, a technician at the Swiss WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, will spend the festive season in Antarctica. The luggage for his long expedition is travelling ahead of him....
Catherine Chabaud, the first woman to complete a circumnavigation of the globe in a solo sailing race, breaks a bottle of champagne on the port side of Persévérance, in the shadow of Marseille’s “La Bonne Mère”, the patron saint of sailors and fishermen....
This article is published as part of a partnership between PolarJournal and Quark Expeditions. A wild-and-crazy godmother (Photo: Quark Expeditions) The cruise operator has chosen a tireless advocate for inclusivity and capability as well as an expert in geoscience to...
Jakob Abermann, of the University of Graz, surveys ice using somewhat more modern methods than Alfred Wegener did in his day (Photo: Uni Graz / Andreas Trügler) Century-old weather records and snow and ice data collected by Alfred Wegener during his Greenland...
