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

Projects about Antarctica

Alfred Wegener Institut

Life in and underneath sea ice

Read the book

Important Bird Areas in Antarctica

Publications

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.

South Pole research (Antarctica)

News about Antarctica

Antarctica: balancing conservation and tourism in a fragile frontier

From idea to breakthrough: twenty years of SUIT changes polar research

Surface water sampling reveals large numbers of juvenile krill undetected by conventional monitoring methods

Rare whale species observed during recent Antarctic expedition

Diet young polar cod more varied than previously assumed

Projects about Antarctica

ANTARC-SHIP: Fostering environmental stewardship among Antarctic tourism governance actors and institutions

Fungi in boreal peatlands and polar regio

Alfred Wegener Institut

Read the book

Publications

The use of weather, water, ice, and climate (WWIC) information in the Polar Regions: What is known after the decade-long Polar Prediction Project?

Exploring Polar Hydrocommons : A speculative counter-cartography of the poles

Contrasting mechanisms of non-vascular and vascular plants on spatial turnover in multifunctionality in the Antarctic continent

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

Biogeography and uniqueness of filamentous terrestrial fungi in the polar regions

Reframing the Antarctic as polar planetary commons : moving beyond rights of nature

Chemoenzymatic Epoxidation of Terpenes by Lyophilized Mycelium of Psychrophilic Cladosporium cladosporioides 01

Consuming placelessness: a geographic critique of current Antarctic tourism development

Zooplankton communities at the sea surface of the eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during the austral summer of 2018/2019

Short-term impacts of polyethylene and polyacrylonitrile microplastics on soil physicochemical properties and microbial activity of a marine terrace environment in maritime Antarctica

Video's about Antarctica

North Pole research (Arctic)

News about Arctic research

From idea to breakthrough: twenty years of SUIT changes polar research

Rare whale species observed during recent Antarctic expedition

Diet young polar cod more varied than previously assumed

Leeuwarden centre of Antarctic scientific consultation

The reasons behind the rapid warming of the North Pole

Projects about the Arctic

Arctic Marine Litter Project

Sustainable Arctic Resource Use

Publications

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

The use of weather, water, ice, and climate (WWIC) information in the Polar Regions: What is known after the decade-long Polar Prediction Project?

Diet of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) from the central Arctic Ocean

Energy content measurements on Arctic zooplankton collected during MOSAiC (PS122)

Exploring Polar Hydrocommons : A speculative counter-cartography of the poles

Seabird sightings from offshore Republic of Congo

Data from Future scenarios for river exports of multiple pollutants by sources and sub-basins worldwide: rising pollution for the Indian Ocean

Convivial arctic futures : Understanding the role of tourism in times of ecological crisis

Amplified seasonality in western Europe in a warmer world

Arctic fire aerosols simulated by a modified version of the ECHAM-HAM global model

Follow our expeditions

Film “Knowledge for a sustainable Arctic”