What's new on the website?
This is a list of major additions/changes to the site. See also earlier changes to the website.
22nd August 2013 | Merged the directories of libraries, museums and organisations into the new SPRI Polar Directory |
3rd July 2013 | SPRI Review 2012 online |
29th April 2013 | New main Library page |
28th August 2012 | SPRI Review 2011 online |
8th November 2011 | Research section overhauled |
19th October 2011 | SPRI Review 2010 online |
18th August 2011 | New sections on SPRI in the news and Press release |
10th March 2011 | SPRI Review 2009 online |
23rd January 2010 | Added a new section for the Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme |
11th January 2010 | Added the new Directory of Polar Libraries |
2nd December | SPRI Review 2008 online |
23rd June | The new Polar Art section of the museum catalogue is now live |
19th February 2009 | Updated Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Polar Studies prospectus |
4th September | SPRI Review 2007 online |
23rd June | Picture library catalogue launched |
12th June | People section overhauled |
27th March | Museum pages overhauled |
26th March | Added our leaflet about leaving a legacy to the Institute |
6th February | SPRI Review 2006 online |
6th February | Research grants list updated |
5th February 2008 | You can now make a donation to the Friends of SPRI online |
15th November | New Picture Library pages |
14th November | Polar Bytes 45 |
24th October | M.Phil. in Polar Studies prospectus updated, including research topics for 2008-9 |
29th August | Search results now fully integrated within the website. |
9th August | SPRI Review 2005 online |
7th August | Friends' Charity Challenge events sponsorship details added, for the sponsored Dog sledging, Extreme dog sledging and Greenland Trek |
18th April | Polar MPhil course details updated |
15th January | Scott's last letters home - a moving exhibition of the final correspondence between Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his wife |
15th January 2007 | Inuit on Celluloid film series added |
19th December | Information on the Friends' Great Sponsored Greenland Trek |
30th November | Details of a new Exhibition partnership with La Corderie Royale |
25th September | SPRI Public Lectures for Michaelmas term 2006 added |
8th June | Browsable Arctic Material Culture Collections (ARMC) catalogue launched as first phase of online SPRI Museum Catalogue |
8th May | Polar Bytes 39 |
23rd January | New research topics for 2006-7 for the M.Phil. in Polar Studies |
10th January | Added a new section on workshops taking place at the Institute |
9th January 2006 | New Friends' Events pages |
7th December | SPRI Public Lectures - Lent term 2006 added |
7th December | More information on the Friends' Great Sponsored Arctic Dog Sledge |
11th November | New SPRI Shop pages live; online ordering will be additionally available in due course |
2nd November | New website design for the World Data Centre for Glaciology, Cambridge |
11th October | Polar Bytes 37 as well as various new items in the Friends' pages online |
26th September | Research seminars in Polar Physical Science 2005-6 online |
5th September | Research projects section being reorganised |
29th August | Changes to organisation of biography pages |
10th August | New site design launched |
26th July | Polar Bytes 36 online |
29th June | SPRI Review 2004 online |
20th June | Overhaul of the Friends pages, including addition of the new Executive Friends pages. |
3rd May | Online booking request form for Archives readers and Special Collections Access Policy |
7th April | Polar Bytes 35 online |
30th March | A new section for the Friends' events |
19th January | Polar Bytes 34 online |
18th January | Added a sitemap containing links to the various sections of the site |
14th January | New research topics for 2005-6 for the M.Phil. in Polar Studies |
12th January 2005 | Launch of SPRI Select - customised bibliography service |
20th December | The Antarctic in black and white - a press release on the Institute's grant of over half a million pounds from the Heritage Lottery Fund |
3rd December | SPRI Public Lectures - Lent term 2005 added |
30th September | Polar Bytes 33 online |
22nd September | SPRI Public Lectures for Michaelmas term 2004 added |
22nd September | Research seminars in Polar Physical Science 2004-5 online |
10th September | Virtual Shackleton - view a selection of original documents and artefacts about the life and expeditions of Sir Ernest Shackleton |
2nd August | Extreme Experiments: Climate change research in Greenland / CryoSat project (includes links for schools) |
22nd July | Polar Bytes 32 online |
20th July | SPRI Review 2003 online |
14th June | Information and a press release on the 'Shackleton: The Hidden Collections' exhibition |
2nd June | Pictures from the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 (Terra Nova) added, available from the Picture Library. |
27th April | Polar Bytes 31 with various attached letters online |
April | Tech: SPRI's website has been recognised by Eric Meyer, one of the world's leading web development experts as "a notable standards-oriented redesign" |
16th March | Full archive of issues of Polar Bytes now available |
16th March | Polar Bytes 30 online |
12th March | Short summary of Science Week 2004 events added |
12th February | Some research seminars in Polar Social Science added |
12th January 2004 | CPOM research: Larsen Ice Shelf has Progressively Thinned |
9th January 2004 | Tech: website layout behind-the-scenes now uses CSS2 stylesheet layout |
3rd December | SPRI Public Lectures - Lent term 2004 added |
5th November | Polar Museums directory converted to a dynamic database. Further improvements to follow. |
4th November | Polar Bytes 29 online (along with other issues added throughout the year) |
3rd October | SPRI Review 2002 online |
3rd October | Research seminars in Polar Physical Science 2003-4 online |
11th September | Russian Information Transfer Programme pages reorganised |
29th July | Recent student awards and successes online |
2nd July | Directory of Polar and Cold Regions Organisations converted to a dynamic database. Further improvements to follow. |
22nd January 2003 | Polar Landscape & Remote Sensing Group information. |
4th December | Glacimarine Research Group projects information. |
15th November | Membership form and constitution of the Friends added. |
13th November | Updated M.Phil. in Polar Studies prospectus |
21st October | Some examples of Recent M.Phil. and Ph.D. theses undertaken at the Institute |
October | Various new biography pages |
October | IGS and WDCGC websites moved to their own dedicated domain names. |
18th September 2002 | Website relaunched |