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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Scott Polar Research Institute"”.
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Some implications in international law of the Soviet proposal to open the northern sea royte to transnational comercial traffic; transit passage in the Soviet Arctic straits
The Soviet Union, with the cooperation of the Scott Polar Research Institute, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, has recently undertaken the Northern Sea Route Project, an effort to ascertain the feasibility of opening the shipping route along the Arctic …
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Geophysical investigations of icebergs in Antarctica
… the data collection are outlined. Some relevant research in glaciology, physics and mechanics of ice, oceanography and other related topics is summarised. The collected data (over a period of one year) are divided in three sets:- the dynamical behaviour of the iceberg; thermodynamical data; and …
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Scrimshaw: unlocking the cultural and biological archive of sea mammal art
… scanning and biomolecular analysis. The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), in Cambridge, United Kingdom, holds a significant collection of pictorial sperm whale scrimshaw from the early nineteenth century, depicting clear British iconography/imagery. Relevant scrimshaw specimens from …
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Sub-Ice Relief and Geology of East Antarctica
Continuous airborne radio echo sounding by the Scott Polar Research Institute has enabled delimitation of the sub-ice topographic configuration of Eastern Antarctica. Reduction and evaluation of profiles of ice/bedrock interface, combined with critically assessed results of previous geophysical and …
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A multi-scaled approach to vegetation and landscape assessment in the Barents region: Reindeer habitat in a climate of change
The circumpolar Arctic is predicted to be particularly affected by global change, including climate change. Likely ecological vulnerabilities include flora and dependent fauna. Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), a keystone Arctic herbivore, are of particular importance, ecologically, as well as …
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Crystal alignment in sea ice
… has been constructed in the cold room at the Scott Polar Research Institute. Two lengthy experiments have been performed in saline water (34%,), one with a current of 3cms$^-1$ beneath the growing ice and a corresponding "null" experiment in which there was no forced flow. Two similar …
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Fragmentary Connections: Authorship, Curation, and Absence in Polar Scrapbooking, 1870-1920
… two sets of family scrapbooks held in the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI)’s archives, examining them as historical sources in their own right, and subsequently for the alternative narratives and experiences of polar expeditions that they offer to our historic understandings of …
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Monitoring and management of tourist landing sites in the Maritime Antarctic
… study is founded on the author's five years of research, both at a field station and as a shipboard expedition leader. The programme formed part of a longer study of polar tourism, Project Antarctic Conservation, directed by Dr Bernard Stonehouse of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University …
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Understanding past and future changes in northern Fennoscandian snow cover.
… in Northern Fennoscandian snow cover. The research questions considered in this thesis are: What are the uncertainties in remote sensing and climate modelling datasets used in snow studies? How has snow cover been changing since the 1960s and how will it change over the next century, at a …