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Recent news. Recent news. Twice as much water on Antarctica’s ice shelves than previously thought. ... New York Times essay by Stephen Lezak. 22nd March, 2024. has published a guest essay in the New York Times today responding to the recent rejection

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SPRI Review 2010 online. 18th August 2011. New sections on SPRI in the news and Press release. ... 10th January. Added a new section on workshops taking place at the Institute.

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See also:. Events & exhibitions. Temporary exhibitions. Hidden Histories. Explore the hidden histories of the Polar Museum in this new label display. ... From the female figures in polar history to the origins of Inuit art; follow the stories around the

The controversial case of Sir Edgar Speyer, the Anglo-German merchant-banker and Scott's major fundraiser , has been taken up in a new book, Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy?

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Creativity: FoSPRI enables Artists and Musicians in Residence to create new work in response to direct experience of polar environments, enabled by partnership with the Royal Navy.

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Our unique programme supports the creation of new art from the polar regions.

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All of these new titles can be found on iDiscover and are available to read in the library or online with a Raven login. ... Recommend a book. We always welcome new book recommendations and will consider anything that fits our collection development

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SPRI Centenary. SPRI Centenary. Our 2020 Centenary Campaign aims to build the endowment funds of the Institute to support new academic posts, to enhance our ability to undertake polar fieldwork, to ... Latest news on our centenary celebrations. 2024

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Latest news from the Institute, updated regularly. Our Picture Library offers a wide range of polar-themed photographs.

A substantial component of our work involves the development of new and robust techniques for measuring vegetation change using data from satellite remote sensing.

Work is in progress to transfer earlier written records to the collection management database and from time to time the online catalogue is updated to reflect new records and images which

PhD – Doctoral research. We are actively seeking new PhD research students across all subject areas presented across the SPRI webpages.

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Archives. You will increase our capacity for research through the funding of new research posts in polar environmental sciences and polar social sciences, enabling us to analyse and communicate the issues