Dossier
Antarctica
The work of researchers on Antarctica has a wide variety of subjects, from polar sea to sea ice and from krill to whales. In this dossier you can find news, backgrounds and results of research of Wageningen University & Research in the Antarctic region. Also, follow expeditions to Antarctica in our researchers' blogs.
In this dossier, you can find research conducted by Wageningen University & Research in relation to its Statutory Research Task (WOT) in Antarctic Research for the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. This task follows from the Netherlands' consultative membership in the Antarctic Treaty, the international agreement for shared government of the Antarctic continent and Southern Oceans. Additional support is obtained from the Netherlands Polar Program of the Netherlands Science Foundation and from foreign host countries that kindly support logistics in our cooperative projects.
The work in the Antarctic has a wide variety of subjects, but has a shared focus on the important role of sea ice in sustaining the rich polar food webs. That focus leads to occasional participation in comparative research expeditions in Arctic areas. When possible, the dossier provides blogs from expeditioners in the field.
News about Antarctica
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NWO support for bird flu research in the Arctic and Antarctic regions
- The Polarflu project, which studies bird flu in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions, will receive funding from the Netherlands Polar Programme, part... -
Antarctica: balancing conservation and tourism in a fragile frontier
- Antarctica is one of the planet’s last truly pristine regions. Beyond the focus of scientists, the continent has largely remained untouched,... -
From idea to breakthrough: twenty years of SUIT changes polar research
- Researchers from Wageningen Marine Research and partners, including the Alfred Wegener Institute, returned in September from an expedition to the... -
Surface water sampling reveals large numbers of juvenile krill undetected by conventional monitoring methods
- In 2018/2019, researchers of Wageningen Marine Research joined the Japanese research vessel Kaiyo-maru (Fisheries Agency Japan; FAJ) on an Antarctic... -
Rare whale species observed during recent Antarctic expedition
- Research by Wageningen Marine Research and partners on the relationship between sea ice and the Southern Ocean food web investigates various...
Expedition blogs
Projects about Antarctica
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ANTARC-SHIP: Fostering environmental stewardship among Antarctic tourism governance actors and institutions
The aim of the ANTARC-SHIP project is to examine to what extent, and how, environmental stewardship can be assessed, enhanced, and facilitated among... -
Fungi in boreal peatlands and polar regio
Fungi play a significant role in terrestrial ecosystem functioning as the main decomposers of the organic matter in soils and peatlands. Arctica and...
Publications
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On filamentous fungi in polar regions and boreal peatlands
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Bas J. Zwaan, Duur K. Aanen, co-promotor(en): Alfons J.M. Debets - Wageningen: Wageningen University - ISBN: 9789465105758 -
Environmental management and stewardship practices in Antarctic science and tourism : do they align with environmental concerns?
Polar Research (2025), Volume: 44 - ISSN 0800-0395 -
The Atmospheric Potential Oxygen forward Model Intercomparison Project (APO-MIP1) : evaluating simulated atmospheric transport of air-sea gas exchange tracers and APO flux products
Geoscientific Model Development (2025), Volume: 18, Issue: 18 - ISSN 1991-959X - p. 5937-5969. -
The carbon footprint of Antarctic tourism : an update of carbon emissions based on satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) data
Journal of Sustainable Tourism (2025) - ISSN 0966-9582 -
Mapping Antarctic Seabird Breeding Occupancy From a Century of Observations to Inform Environmental Management and Conservation
Diversity and Distributions (2025), Volume: 31, Issue: 9 - ISSN 1366-9516 -
The effects of drought on Sphagnum moss species and the implications for hydrology in peatlands
New Phytologist (2025), Volume: 247, Issue: 5 - ISSN 0028-646X - p. 2003-2021. -
Consuming placelessness: a geographic critique of current Antarctic tourism development
Tourism Geographies (2025), Volume: 27, Issue: 5 - ISSN 1461-6688 - p. 1022-1038. -
Occurrence of Psychrophilomyces antarcticus in the Arctic
Fungal Ecology (2025), Volume: 74 - ISSN 1754-5048 -
Can a citizen science project enrich travellers’ experience in Antarctica? Case study of a preliminary evaluation of the FjordPhyto project
Polar Journal (2025), Volume: 15, Issue: 1 - ISSN 2154-896X - p. 81-99. -
Exploring Polar Hydrocommons : A speculative counter-cartography of the poles