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 NSF Office of Polar Programs

The Office of Polar Programs (OPP) manages and initiates National Science Foundation funding for basic research and its operational support in the Arctic and the Antarctic. The funds are provided as NSF grants to institutions (mainly U.S. universities), whose scientists perform the research at the institutions or in a polar region, and as cooperative agreements or contracts to support organizations including contractors and the U.S. military. Click Here. OPP has created a subscriber newsletter covering numerous interest areas. To subscribe, Click Here.

The Antarctic Sun

The Antarctic Sun is the official news web site for the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), which is managed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs.  Raytheon Polar Services Company (RPSC) is contracted by the NSF to support the USAP, and maintains the Sun web site as a resource for information about the program and its people. Click Here

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

SCAR is charged with the initiating, developing and coordinating high quality international scientific research in the Antarctic region, and on the role of the Antarctic region in the Earth system. The scientific business of SCAR is conducted by its Standing Scientific Groups which represent the scientific disciplines active in Antarctic research and report to SCAR. Click Here

International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators (IAATO)

IAATO is an international organization comprised of more than 100 respected companies and organizations from across the world. Our mission is to advocate, promote and practice safe and environmentally responsible private sector tourism to the Antarctic. Click Here

Cryosphere Science Research Portal

Cryospheric research at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center addresses the physics of ice sheets and glaciers, sea ice, snow on ice and land, and their roles in the global climate system. Click Here

American Polar Society

Established in 1934, the American Polar Society is the oldest of U.S.-based polar societies. It features information about both the North and South polar regions. In addition to supporting the Society, it is the goal of this web site to bring public awareness to the many fascinating aspects of the Polar regions. Click Here

Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center

The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPRC) at The Ohio State University is recognized internationally as a leader in polar and alpine research. Research at the Center focuses on the role of cold regions in the Earth's overall climate system, and encompasses geological sciences, geochemistry, glaciology, paleoclimatology, meteorology, remote sensing, ocean dynamics, and the history of polar exploration. Click Here

Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program

 The Archival Program contains a wealth of digital versions of polar material collected by the Center. Of particular interest are the oral histories which include interviews with many deceased and living members of the Antarctican Society. Click Here

The Explorer's Club

The Explorers Club is an international multidisciplinary professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. Since its inception in 1904, the Club has served as a meeting point and unifying force for explorers and scientists worldwide. Click Here

Scott Polar Research Institute

The Institute is a well-known and long-established centre for research into both polar regions. It is part of the University of Cambridge and is a sub-department of the Department of Geography. Click Here

Freeze Frame

The Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge holds a world-class collection of photographic negatives illustrating polar exploration from the nineteenth century onwards. Freeze Frame is the result of a two-year digitisation project that brings together photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Here you can discover the polar regions through the eyes of those explorers and scientists who dared to go into the last great wildernesses on earth. Click Here

Antarctic Heritage Trust

Antarctic Heritage Trust works to conserve Antarctic buildings and artefacts while promoting and encouraging public interest in Antarctic heritage.  The United Kingdom branch maintains British historic sites on the Antarctic Peninsula (Click Here), and the New Zealand branch looks after the Heroic Age huts in the Ross Sea Region (Click Here)

Cold Regions Bibliographic Project

The Antarctic Bibliography covers all disciplines related to the region including biological and geological sciences, medical sciences, meteorology, oceanography, atmospheric and terrestrial physics, expeditions, logistics equipment and supplies, and tourism. The Antarctic Bibliography was produced with support from the National Science Foundation with contributions from the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Among the resources in the archive is the United States Antarctic Journal (see below). Click Here

U.S. Antarctic Journal and Predecessors

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs published and distributed the Antarctic Journal of the United States starting in 1966, but in 2002 decided to discontinue publication. The Journal was preceded by four other publications: Antarctic Report (1964-1965); Antarctic Status Report (1962-1963); Bulletin of the U.S. Antarctic Projects Officer (1959-1965); and Antarctic Status Report USNC-IGY (1956-1958). The contents of each publication in the series are provided here as open-access documents in PDF format. For publications containing individual articles, individual PDFs are also provided. Click Here

New Zealand Antarctic Society

The New Zealand Antarctic Society was formed in 1933 and has branches in New Zealand's main centres as well as an international membership.The Society brings together people interested in Antarctica, to share knowledge in the fields of all sciences, exploration, discovery and mapping of Antarctica, to seek protection of the Antarctic environment, and to promote New Zealand's interests in Antarctica. Click Here

Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE)

The Australian Antarctic programs are supported through the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. Click Here

ANARE Club

 The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) Clubwas founded in 1951 by veterans of the first Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE). Our emblem is the beautiful Emperor penguin on a map of Antarctica. Currently we have over 700 members with branches in most Australian capital cities. We publish our Club journal, Aurora, four times a year and maintain a contemporary and dynamic website and Club email list to keep members informed of items of ANARE Club and general Antarctic interest.  Click Here

Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (Spindler)

Bill Spindler runs a comprehensive site about Amundsen-Scott Pole Station which includes a complete history of the winterover crews going back to IGY. It also contains many other interesting articles relating to Antarctica. Click Here

The Antarctic Circle

The Antarctic Circle is a non-commercial forum and resource on historical, literary, bibliographical, artistic and cultural aspects of Antarctica and the South Polar regions. The breadth and quantity of its content expands periodically. Click Here

Old Antarctic Explorer's Association

The Old Antarctic Explorers Association, Inc. is a tax exempt charitable organization dedicated to establishing and perpetuating public awareness of the Courage, Sacrifice and Devotion its members exhibited while supporting Antarctic Research. Another goal is to unify efforts to obtain, preserve and display Operation Deep Freeze artifacts and memorabilia in a centralized location in addition to identifying those artifacts that are already in place at various locals. Click Here

Shackleton Museum Athy

Athy Heritage Centre was established to celebrate the vibrant socio-historic legacy of the area. It houses material and audio-visual programmes that chronicle the ancient, medieval and post 16th century lives and achievements of the people of the town and its hinterland. Highlight of the year, at the Centre, is the Shackleton Autumn School, which was established to commemorate the explorer in the county of his birth. It provides a forum for discussion and debate on polar exploration and the presentation of artistic works relevant to Shackleton and his time. Click Here.

The Antarctic Artists And Writers Collective

The Antarctic Artists And Writers Collective has launched a website. The collective is a group of past AAW participants whose mission is to ‘Inspire and Educate the Public about Antarctica and its Scientific Exploration Through Collaborations in the Arts’. Click Here.

PolarTREC

The long-term PolarTREC vision is to create and sustain a successful approach to professional development in the polar regions, fostering enthusiasm and awareness to inspire the next generation of scientists and a STEM-literate public. The program's goal is to invigorate polar science education and understanding by bringing educators and polar researchers together in professional collaboration. By integrating research and education, PolarTREC will help sustain and grow the scientific, public, and political enthusiasm for polar research and education. Click Here.

McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research Project

The McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research Project is an interdisciplinary study of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in a cold desert region of Antarctica. In 1992 this area was selected as a study site within the National Science Foundation's Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) Program. Click Here

Polar Impact

An inclusive network of racial & ethnic minorities and allies in the polar research community. Our mission is to support, connect, and highlight the stories of Black, Asian, Indigenous, people of color, and minority ethnic professionals in the polar research community. Click Here

The Antarctic Report

Dedicated to all things on Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, the Antarctic Report is an online portal published by Camino, a digital content and publishing company based in Auckland, New Zealand. The site showcases the hard science which underlines the importance of Antarctica as a bellwether of global climate change. It also highlights the continent's unique political status, as well as the exceptional demands its environment places on people and equipment, and the romantic allure for travellers and explorers as the least discovered continent on the planet. Click Here