Partners:
Focus On:
What is IPY
Popular Tags
IPY Search
TARANTELLA: Terrestrial Ecosystems in Arctic and Antarctic
Terrestrial ecosystems in Arctic and Antarctic: effects of UV light, liquefying ice, and ascending temperatures (TARANTELLA)
Predicted changes in climate and ozone concentrations in the Polar Regions make it critically important to understand how changes in key environmental factors influence polar terrestrial ecosystems via the modification of their individual but interconnected components.
Observational and experimental research on the effect of climate change and ozone depletion is affiliated to international research programmes including the EBA, Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic project, SCAR in the Antarctic, and in the Arctic to ITEX, International Tundra Experiment as well as IGBP-GCTE.
TARANTELLA aims to coordinate these studies by focusing on the experimental approach, in both the Arctic, in collaboration with ITEX, and in the Antarctic.
A common methodology is used, the so-called Open-Top Chambers (OTC) or small greenhouses for temperature manipulations; for UV-B field research, UV-B supplementation (lamps) and/or UV-B exclusion (foils), are used to experimentally establish varied UV-B levels.
COMPASS: Comprehensive Meteorological dataset of active IPY Antarctic measurement phase
NICE STREAMS: Neogene Ice Streams and Sedimentary Processes
TTAAPP - IPY: Taking the Antarctic Arctic Polar Pulse, IPY 2007-8
MARGINS: Measurement and Attribution of Recent Greenland Ice Sheet Changes
ENVISNAR: Environmental baselines, processes, changes and Impacts on people in Nordic arctic regions
POLENET: Polar Earth Observing Network
POLAR-AOD: a network to characterize the climate-forcing properties of aerosols in polar regions
Ice Station Antarctica Travelling Exhibition
Calendar of Events
NOEVENTS
News
-
Fri, 07 May 2010IPY Monthly Report: May 2010
-
Tue, 30 Mar 2010IPY Report: April 2010
-
Wed, 03 Mar 2010IPY Report: March 2010
-
Tue, 02 Feb 2010IPY Report: February 2010
-
Thu, 21 Jan 2010IPY Oslo Science Conference -...
Friends of IPY
-
Thu, 16 Dec 2010Missatge 10: Un cervell realment...
-
Wed, 15 Dec 2010Ice Core Goes on Display...
-
Tue, 14 Dec 2010Sun-Earth Day 2011 Will Be...
-
Tue, 14 Dec 2010Missatge 9: Les peculiaritats de...
-
Mon, 13 Dec 2010Another Use for Antarctic Icebergs?