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: WUR Polar.
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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Antarctica: balancing conservation and tourism in a fragile frontier
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From idea to breakthrough: twenty years of SUIT changes polar research
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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
Projects about Antarctica
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ANTARC-SHIP: Fostering environmental stewardship among Antarctic tourism governance actors and institutions
The aim of the ANTARC-SHIP project is to examine to what extent, and how, environmental stewardship can be assessed, enhanced, and facilitated among... -
Fungi in boreal peatlands and polar regio
Fungi play a significant role in terrestrial ecosystem functioning as the main decomposers of the organic matter in soils and peatlands. Arctica and...
Alfred Wegener Institut
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Publications
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Occurrence of Psychrophilomyces antarcticus in the Arctic
Fungal Ecology (2025), Volume: 74 - ISSN 1754-5048 -
Spatio-temporal changes in the macrozooplankton community in the eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during austral summers : A comparison between 1996 and 2018–2019
Progress in Oceanography (2025), Volume: 231 - ISSN 0079-6611 -
Exploring Polar Hydrocommons : A speculative counter-cartography of the poles
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Values and Principles in the Antarctic Treaty and the Environmental Protocol : An Overview and Categorization
The Yearbook of Polar Law (2024), Volume: 15, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1876-8814 - p. 285-308. -
Where the White Continent Is Blue : Deep Learning Locates Bare Ice in Antarctica
Geophysical Research Letters (2024), Volume: 51, Issue: 3 - ISSN 0094-8276 -
Toward Antarctification? Tourism and place-making in Antarctica
Polar Geography (2024), Volume: 47, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1088-937X - p. 49-70. -
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 -
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. -
Consuming placelessness: a geographic critique of current Antarctic tourism development
Tourism Geographies (2024) - ISSN 1461-6688 -
Rights of Nature and the Antarctic : philosophical considerations, possible modalities, and relations with the Antarctic Treaty System
Polar Journal (2024), Volume: 14, Issue: 2 - ISSN 2154-896X - p. 514-534.
Video's about Antarctica
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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 pollution fast-track to the Arctic: how southern wintering areas contribute to organochlorine loads in a migrant seabird breeding in the Arctic
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2025) - ISSN 0730-7268 - p. 1-9. -
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake
Nature Climate Change (2025), Volume: 15, Issue: 2 - ISSN 1758-678X - p. 188-195. -
Occurrence of Psychrophilomyces antarcticus in the Arctic
Fungal Ecology (2025), Volume: 74 - ISSN 1754-5048 -
Spatio-temporal changes in the macrozooplankton community in the eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during austral summers : A comparison between 1996 and 2018–2019
Progress in Oceanography (2025), Volume: 231 - ISSN 0079-6611 -
Reindeer carcasses modulate vegetation composition and greenness in High-Arctic tundra
Arctic Science (2025), Volume: 11 - ISSN 2368-7460 -
Historical Bird Atlas and Contemporary Citizen Science Data Reveal Long-Term Changes in Geographic Range of Kenyan Birds
Diversity and Distributions (2025), Volume: 31, Issue: 2 - ISSN 1366-9516 -
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
