Scott Polar Research InstituteResearch projects in the Institute
This is a global list of the 62 research projects being undertaken by members of the Institute, listed by research group.
The list below includes archived projects. In due course, these will be listed separately.
Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics (HCEP)
Arctic Ocean Geopolitics
- Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interactions in Intenational Governance
- Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean
Political Ecology
Disputes over colonial-modern development policy
Polar Knowledges
- Anthropological research on impacts of oil and gas extraction on nomads
- Arctic Cultures - Sites of collection in the formation of the European and American Northlands
- Arctic Geopolitics and Autonomy
- BALANCE: Global Change Vulnerabilities in the Barents Region: Linking Arctic Natural Resources, Climate Change and Economies.
- Cambridge Canadian Studies Initiative (CCSI)
- Field practices and environmental science in the Canadian Arctic, 1950-2000
- Historical geography of Sámi hunting society in northern Sweden
- Instruments of scientific governance? Historical geographies of Halley Bay, 1956 – present
- Reindeer herders' perceptions of and responses to climate change
- The influence of periodicals and their editorial contexts on scientific discourses of the Arctic, 1789-1914
- Using visual methods to engage indigenous youth and community members in cross-site, international analysis: a methodological study
- Vulnerability of European reindeer husbandry to global change
Environmental knowledges
Knowledges for development
Ecosystem processes
- Air pollution and ground disturbance in the Russian Arctic
- Development of a phenological correction algorithm for remote sensing of industrial impact on high-latitude vegetation. Case study: Noril'sk, Northern Siberia
Terrestrial ecology, carbon, and climate
Glaciology and Climate Change
- Antarctic ice-shelf hydrology, instability and break-up
- Assessing the role of subglacial hydrology on the flow of West Antarctic ice streams: a numerical modelling approach
- Changing Thermal Regime of Polythermal Glaciers
- Evaluating the potential of high-resolution airborne remote sensing for glaciology
- Geometry and scale-dependence of an Arctic glacier
- Glacial Sedimentary Processes in Iceland
- Grounding-zone flux observations at a continental scale: the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AntarcticGZ)
- High-resolution distributed modelling of the surface energy balance of valley glaciers
- Hydrological controls on the formation of basal ice layers beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Identification of Subglacial Paleolakes in Arctic Canada: geophysical surveys in the Great Slave Lake
- INTEGRAL
- Investigating basal conditions and flow dynamics on Vestfonna Ice Cap, Svalbard
- iSTAR: NERC Ice-sheet stability programme
- Mass balance of Svalbard glaciers
- Meteorology, debris cover and hydrology of Himalayan glaciers
- Modelling and observing subglacial processes beneath Antarctic ice streams
- Modelling Mass Balance of Svalbard Glaciers
- Modelling the influence of glacier hydrology on the dynamics of large ice sheets
- RESPONDER: Resolving subglacial properties, hydrological networks and dynamic evolution of ice flow on the Greenland Ice Sheet
- SAFIRE: Subglacial Access and Fast Ice Research Experiment
- Semi-automated mapping of glacial landforms
- Spaceborne measurements of Arctic glaciers and implications for sea-level change
- Supraglacial, Englacial and Subglacial Hydrology of Glaciers and Ice Sheets
- Surface and Basal Hydrology of the Greenland Ice Sheet
- Surface characteristics and mass balance of Icelandic ice caps
- The Greenland Ice Sheet: How fast is it changing, and why?
- Thermodynamics of basal freeze-on beneath glaciers and ice sheet
- TIME: Thwaites Interdisciplinary Margin Evolution
- Understanding contemporary changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Glacimarine Environments
- Atlas of submarine glacial landforms: Modern, quaternary and ancient
- Geophysical and Geological Investigations of Sedimentation and Ice-Ocean Variability on Arctic Continental Margins
- Glacial-interglacial changes in the lost drainage basin of the West Antarctic
- Ice-Rafted Debris on the Antarctic Continental Margin and the Dynamics of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Marine geological processes and sediments beneath floating ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica: investigations using the Autosub AUV