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A University Department with an International Mission
The University of Cambridge
The Institute benefits greatly from being embedded in one of the world's finest Universities. The Institute's academic staff undertake pioneering studies in a broad range of subjects, from glaciology, sea ice, and climate change, through remote sensing of environmental pollution, to social and cultural change in Arctic peoples. The Institute offers a unique bi-polar and circum-polar Masters course in Polar Studies, and its staff contribute to other degree courses offered elsewhere in the University.
The International Mission
The founding vision of the Institute was that it should provide a focus of polar information and expertise available to all - to scientists, scholars, explorers and peoples of all nations. Beyond its teaching and research, this vision is in the hands of the Library - the world's finest for the polar regions - and the magnificent Archives, and the small but choice Museum. To meet burgeoning public interest in the polar regions, we need to exploit opportunities presented by advancing information technology to disseminate knowledge and use of the Institute's unrivalled resources, and to maintain the original vision but in the presence of new information technologies.