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Note: Links to obsolete pages have been removed in the list below.
19-28 February 2002
- Many webpages in most areas updated, prior to the handover to the new Webmaster on 28 Feb 2002.
12 February 2002
- Prospectus for the MPhil in Polar Studies - webpage design [now offline] by Daniel Haynes.
12 December 2001
- Research by Dr Marcelle Chabot (Université Laval, Québec, Canada) on The Social and Political Economy of the Inuit Household
29 November 2001
- New research on intersecting economies in a Subarctic indigenous community by Sean Maher, in the SPRI Science and Development group.
- Professor Julian Dowdeswell and Ms Ruth Fleming added to the SPRI staff webpage.
- Updated page for The Gino Watkins Memorial Fund on grants awarded, written by Professor Michael Lea.
27 November 2001
6 November 2001
- Sea Ice group renamed the Polar Marine Science Group.
30 October 2001
- Prof Keith Richards writes: "Congratulations to Peter Wadhams on his Personal Professorship announced in the University Reporter on 24 October. Peter's chair will be as Professor of Ocean Physics, a fitting title for the head of the new Polar Marine Science Group".
- Science and Society seminars at SPRI - Michaelmas Term 2001.
- Polar Bytes, No.20.
14 October 2001
4 October 2001
- Our 10 new MPhil students now listed on the Staff and Students webpage
28 September 2001
- New SPRI Job Vacancies page, includes two vacancies.
27 September 2001
- Press Release: Shackleton papers acquired for the nation following the Christie's Polar Sale in London on 25 September 2001
20 September 2001
- Updated version of Scrimshaw and the sperm whale: the SPRI collection and research pages for Dr Janet West.
16 August 2001
24 July 2001
- The Russian Information Transfer Programme
- Job Advertisement - Senior Accounts Clerk
3 July 2001
- Updated museum webpage and foreign language homepages to show Mon-Fri opening.
28 June 2001
- Information about the Library's Oral History Programme.
14 June 2001
- An updated map webpage now includes a link to the University Map.
10 May 2001
- Obituary - Dr Norman Davis
4 May 2001
- Links to SPRI Review from non-English SPRI homepages.
27 April 2001
3 April 2001
- Revised foreign language SPRI homepages showing the newly named Anthropology, Russian and Northern Studies Group
18 March 2001
- Anthropology, Russian and Northern Studies Group - revised webpages showing the new name for this research group.
- Research by our new PhD students (Mark, Niobe and Stephanie / Sean and Richard)
- Personal homepages for Niobe, Stephanie and Richard
9 February 2001
- John Lachlan Cope's Expedition to Graham Land, 1920-22, a webpage and photos, prepared by Claude Cowan.
19 January 2001
- Science and Development Group homepage, written by Michael Bravo.
- Hugh Brody at SPRI.
19 December 2000
14 November 2000
- The Prospectus for M.Phil. in Polar Studies was completely revised for 2001-2002, by Michael Bravo and others
- Polar Bytes, No.16
8 September 2000
- Directory of European Glaciology - Spain
- The Museum Shop updated publications list.
11 August 2000
- New list of SPRI Public Lectures in the Michaelmas (Autumn) term.
20 July 2000
- Pages in the Directory of European Glaciology for Finland and France.
2 June 2000
- Revised brief history of SPRI
19 May 2000
- Index to Antarctic programmes - comprehensive guide to Internet resources on national programmes, their webpages, current and historic research, and related photographs in SPRI Picture Library.
- Index to Antarctic expeditions - comprehensive guide to Internet resources on historic and selected contemporary expeditions: summaries, literature and photographs.
11 May 2000
30 April 2000
- A new database listing all SPRI photographs, film and other illustrative material from the Picture Library.
31 March 2000
- Dr Michael Bravo has been appointed to the recently advertised University Lectureship post.
23 March 2000
- An Expeditions webpage, providing summaries of some important but little known British Antarctic expeditions, which have been written by Claude Cowan. The latest is: Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949-52
17 February 2000
- SPRI Picture Library have produced three sets of Notelets illustrated with Edward Wilson watercolours painted on Scott's Discovery and Terra Nova expeditions. These are now available from the Museum Shop.
10 February 2000
- new Navigation Bar and Information Resources category added to SPRI Home Page
- SPRILIB Antarctica - reloaded with 3,000 additional records
- SPRILIB Ice and Snow - reload (from the World Data Centre for Glaciology, Cambridge).
- SPRILIB Russian North - 19,000 publications concerning northern Russia and Siberia.
1 February 2000
- New pages for the Directory of European Glaciology: Italy, updated pages on Austria and Germany with thanks to Claudia Hermichen.
- META tags for SPRI homepage and Picture Library homepage
14 December 1999
11 November 1999
- Submarine upward looking sonar ice draft profile data and statistics from the Sea Ice and Polar Oceanography Group
- Revised Sea Ice and Polar Oceanography Group home page
15 October 1999
- Polar Bytes No.13, the latest Friends' Newsletter.
- Research in image processing techniques in the Remote Sensing Group
5 October 1999
- British Graham Land Expedition - photographs.
- SPRI Christmas Card 1999, an Antarctic photograph by William Mills.
- The Polar Museums Directory.
13 July 1999
18 June 1999
- Pages on Monitoring vegetation use and vegatation change in reindeer-herding areas in the Russian Arctic and on environmental risk in the Arctic, within the Remote Sensing Group.
- An expanded Gallery Page for the SPRI Picture Library, has 144 new photographs on display. Many thanks to Daniel Lambert for designing these webpages.
17 May 1999
- The most recent issue of Polar Bytes, the newsletter of the Friends of SPRI, and links to past issues.
30 April 1999
- Updated booklist for the Museum Shop
- Extracts from SPRI Review '98 on work in the Research Groups
26 March 1999
- Photographs from the Gough Island Scientific Survey 1955-56; prepared by Claude Cowan.
- Revised and expanded MPhil in Polar Studies course description.
11 March 1999
- Usage statistics now back online, updated every night.
1 March 1999
- Search SPRILIB Antarctica. SPRI library's Antarctic collections may now be searched on the Internet. SPRILIB Antarctica is the first of a planned suite of subsets of SPRILIB to be made available.
2 February 1999
- Emma Wilson's Project Kamchatka '98 Report
- Completely revised Social Sciences and Russian Studies Group webpages
15 December 1998
- NERC Studentships and Fellowships listing all PhD students funded by NERC who have worked in the Arctic, from the NERC Arctic Environmental Metadata Centre.
- Christmas Special! - Polar Jokes!
4 December 1998
- The website of the International Glaciological Society has moved to SPRI, from Chicago, USA. It is maintained by Simon Ommanney and Dave Garbett.
3 November 1998
- Resources for schools, including Polar links for schools, and UK science links for schools
5 October 1998
- The Southern Cross 1999 calendar produced by the Friends of SPRI and the SPRI Picture Library is now on the Museum Shop webpage.
14 September 1998
- The Catalogue of NERC Grants awarded for Arctic research since 1965, from the NERC Arctic Environmental Metadata Centre.
24 August 1998
- Captain Joe's Final Progress Report on the Shackleton Memorial Library.
3 August 1998
- Next term's public lectures, including celebrations around the Opening of the Shackleton Memorial Library.
16 July 1998
- Captain Joe's Fifth Progress Report on the Shackleton Memorial Library.
- Russian Links to other websites, part of the "Russian North and Far East Regional Pages" web project, designed by Joachim Otto Habeck.
2 July 1998
- A Gallery for the Picture Library, with links to many other images on the SPRI website.
26 May 1998
- Guestbook on the SPRI Kids Page
19 May 1998
- Captain Joe's latest Progress Report on the building of the Shackleton Memorial Library.
7 May 1998
- New Resources heading on our homepage.
- SPRI Kids Pages: An Animals Quiz designed by Roland Warren.
7 April 1998
- Remote Sensing Group page on Oil spills on frozen ground, research by Dr Yvette Marchand.
- SPRI Kids Pages on Polar Games designed by Roland Warren.
20 March 1998
- SPRI Kids Page on Robert Falcon Scott designed by Roland Warren.
12 March 1998
- A new Remote Sensing Group research project on Vegetation change, reindeer herding and indigenous knowledge as part of SPRI's contribution to BASIS (Barents Sea area Impact Study)
- Related to this SPRI has a Job Vacancy: Research Assistant (half time) in Remote Sensing
- Updated Picture Library page with hand-painted lantern slides.
- Captain Joe's third installment on the building of the Shackleton Memorial Library.
27 February 1998
- RSG Group page Snow monitoring in Scotland, designed by Alan Steel.
3 February 1998
- New SPRI Kids Pages on Animals in the Arctic and Antarctic from Roland Warren.
19 January 1998, and weekly thereafter (not listed here)
- The latest photographs of the Shackleton Memorial Library building work, taken by Gareth Rees. He will take further photographs at weekly intervals.
19 December 1997
- Reports of the Greenland Qaqortoq meteorite [subsequently updated in January 1998].
18 December 1997
- Captain Joe's second instalment on the building of the Shackleton Memorial Library.
26 November 1997
20 November 1997
- The NERC Arctic Environmental Metadata Centre. Located in the SPRI Library, it opened on 1st September 1997.
10 November 1997
- Captain Joe's first instalment on the building of the Shackleton Memorial Library.
28 October 1997
- Our first SPRI Kids Page designed by Isabella's son, Roland Warren.
22 October 1997
- New Social Sciences and Russian Studies research group pages, edited by Joachim Otto Habeck.
- The first Regional Pages for the Russian North and Far East, on Sakha by Tanya Argounova, and Evenkia by Joachim Otto Habeck.
14 October 1997
- Photograph of SPRI added to the home page.
24 September 1997
- Neil Arnold's research and teaching webpages.
1 September 1997
- Completely revised Sea Ice and Polar Oceanography web pages, by Stephen Wells and Douglas Low
14 August 1997
13 May 1997
- Air and rail routes to Cambridge.
- Additional conference pages - see 13 March, below.
29 April 1997
- The Institute's new Picture Library
- Changes to the museum and home pages, warning of the 12-month closure of the museum on 12 June 1997.
23 April 1997
26 March 1997
13 March 1997
- In association with the Geotechnical Science Laboratories, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada SPRI presents a seminar/workshop on Contaminants in Freezing Ground, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 14-15 July 1997 - organised by Gareth Rees and Peter Williams.
5 March 1997
- The Directory of Polar and Cold Regions Organizations, compiled by William Mills.
17 January 1997
- Revised and expanded Links Page
9 January 1997
- How to search the whole World-Wide Web
12 December 1996
- The Shackleton Memorial Appeal - information from the Development Office
5 December 1996
28 November 1996
- Redesigned Home Page
- New road routes map (226K)
13 November 1996
- New Cambridge-based links added to Links page
12 November 1996
- New Staff Appointment at SPRI - Statement by the Director, John Heap.
5 November 1996
- News on the jökulhlaup (surge of glacier meltwater) from the Lake Grímsvötn caldera lake under the Vatnajökull icesheet, Iceland
30 October 1996
- The Polar Museums Directory, compiled by William Mills
5 September 1996
- An obituary of Terence Armstrong, by Harry King
- SPRI website statistics - updated daily
1 September 1996
- The SPRI Website was launched on 1 September 1996