The study of the social transmission of stress between penguin parents and chicks, already known in other seabird species, could be carried out using infrared images. Images from left to right: Antoine Stier / French Polar Institute; Lord McPlouf / French Polar...
The French Polar Institute and Tara sign an agreement to work together in the Arctic. Image: Camille Lin Yesterday evening saw the conclusion of a strategy meeting for French action in the clusters. There are many players involved, and there is a need for coordination...
Jacques Bazin, ice pilot with the French Navy: “Navigating in ice is like playing billiards with 150,000 banks, where you have to anticipate and detect passages.” Image: Virgil Decourteille / French Polar Institute The French Navy’s Hydrographic and...
Cape Digby, in the north of the eastern side of the Courbet peninsula in the Kerguelen archipelago. Image: Laura Charlanne / French Polar Institute Southern elephant seals don’t fast completely during the drastic moulting period, but they could very well go in...
An artistic view of the Palmer Station in Antarctica. Image: Chloe DaMommio, John H. Postlethwait and Thomas Desvignes / NSF The mixed gender of scientific stations raises a number of questions about relations between men and women, issues for which the overwintering...