Dossier
North Pole (Arctic) and South Pole (Antarctica)
Our work in the Arctic and Antarctic pole regions has a wide variety of subjects, but has a shared focus on the important role of sea ice in sustaining the rich polar food webs. In this dossier you can find news, backgrounds and results of research of Wageningen University & Research in the North and South Pole region.
South Pole research (Antarctica)
The work of researchers on Antarctica has a wide variety of subjects, from polar sea to sea ice and from krill to whales. This research is a Statutory Research Task (WOT) we perform for the Dutch ministry. This task follows from the Netherlands' consultative membership in the Antarctic Treaty, the international agreement for shared government of the Antarctic continent and Southern Oceans. Additional support is obtained from the Netherlands Polar Program of the Netherlands Science Foundation and from foreign host countries that kindly support logistics in our cooperative projects.
News about Antarctica
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Surface water sampling reveals large numbers of juvenile krill undetected by conventional monitoring methods
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Rare whale species observed during recent Antarctic expedition
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Diet young polar cod more varied than previously assumed
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Leeuwarden centre of Antarctic scientific consultation
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ANTARC-SHIP project: Exploring Environmental Stewardship in the Context of Tourism and Science
Projects about Antarctica
Alfred Wegener Institut
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Publications
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The use of weather, water, ice, and climate (WWIC) information in the Polar Regions: What is known after the decade-long Polar Prediction Project?
Weather, Climate, and Society (2024), Volume: 16, Issue: 3 - ISSN 1948-8327 - p. 369-387. -
Exploring Polar Hydrocommons : A speculative counter-cartography of the poles
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Unraveling The Impact of Isomerism on Enzymatic Polymerization of Furanic Polyesters
Advanced Sustainable Systems (2024), Volume: 8, Issue: 5 - ISSN 2366-7486 -
Demography of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) from the KY1804 austral summer survey in the eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean (80 to 150˚E), including specific investigations of the upper surface waters
Frontiers in Marine Science (2024), Volume: 11 - ISSN 2296-7745 -
Consuming placelessness: a geographic critique of current Antarctic tourism development
Tourism Geographies (2024) - ISSN 1461-6688 -
Toward Antarctification? Tourism and place-making in Antarctica
Polar Geography (2024), Volume: 47, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1088-937X - p. 49-70. -
Where the White Continent Is Blue : Deep Learning Locates Bare Ice in Antarctica
Geophysical Research Letters (2024), Volume: 51, Issue: 3 - ISSN 0094-8276 -
Short-term impacts of polyethylene and polyacrylonitrile microplastics on soil physicochemical properties and microbial activity of a marine terrace environment in maritime Antarctica
Environmental Pollution (2024), Volume: 347 - ISSN 0269-7491 -
Zooplankton communities at the sea surface of the eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during the austral summer of 2018/2019
Progress in Oceanography (2024), Volume: 226 - ISSN 0079-6611 -
Making memories that matter: how do different recollections of an Antarctic tourism experience impact future conservation behavior?
Journal of Sustainable Tourism (2024), Volume: 32, Issue: 10 - ISSN 0966-9582 - p. 2159-2180.
Video's about Antarctica
The Petrels
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Ice net SUIT
During the expeditions, the researchers are fishing with the ice net SUIT (Surface and Under Ice Trawl - SUIT). With this gear, the top layer of the water under the ice can be examined.
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North Pole research (Arctic)
With the receding sea-ice in the Arctic, an increase in human activities
such as shipping, oil and gas exploration, fisheries and tourism is
expected in this region. Wageningen University & Research conducts
impact assessments of these activities. This is needed to identify
relevant mitigation measures to minimise impacts of these activities and
to give advice to governments, industry and NGOs on sustainable
developments in the Arctic.
News about Arctic research
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From idea to breakthrough: twenty years of SUIT changes polar research
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Rare whale species observed during recent Antarctic expedition
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Diet young polar cod more varied than previously assumed
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Leeuwarden centre of Antarctic scientific consultation
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The reasons behind the rapid warming of the North Pole
Projects about the Arctic
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Arctic Marine Litter Project
Take a moment to visualise the Arctic: icebergs, snow-capped mountains, polar bears, walruses...But the truth is quite the opposite. Many of the... -
Sustainable Arctic Resource Use
This project aims to analyse the use of information in natural resource governance and management in the Arctic region.
Publications
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Dietary starch, non-starch polysaccharides and their interactions affect nutrient digestibility, faecal waste production and characteristics differentially in three salmonids : Rainbow trout, Atlantic salmon and Arctic charr
Aquaculture (2025), Volume: 595 - ISSN 0044-8486 -
The use of weather, water, ice, and climate (WWIC) information in the Polar Regions: What is known after the decade-long Polar Prediction Project?
Weather, Climate, and Society (2024), Volume: 16, Issue: 3 - ISSN 1948-8327 - p. 369-387. -
Diet of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) from the central Arctic Ocean
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Energy content measurements on Arctic zooplankton collected during MOSAiC (PS122)
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Exploring Polar Hydrocommons : A speculative counter-cartography of the poles
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Seabird sightings from offshore Republic of Congo
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The effect of urbanisation on wintertime soil respiration in the Russian Arctic
Journal of Soils and Sediments (2024) - ISSN 1439-0108 -
Data from Future scenarios for river exports of multiple pollutants by sources and sub-basins worldwide: rising pollution for the Indian Ocean
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Convivial arctic futures : Understanding the role of tourism in times of ecological crisis
In: A Research Agenda for Arctic Tourism - Edward Elgar - ISBN: 9781035319985 - p. 183-198. -
Short-term impacts of polyethylene and polyacrylonitrile microplastics on soil physicochemical properties and microbial activity of a marine terrace environment in maritime Antarctica
Environmental Pollution (2024), Volume: 347 - ISSN 0269-7491
