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Polar Research
Research Group Structure
The research work of the Institute continues to focus
around its research groups, each of which has a mix of
senior academic staff, post-doctoral researchers and
a students. The work of the groups is supported by a
number of externally funded research grants, which
are listed below. The groups are:
• Glaciology and Climate Change
• Glacier-Influenced Marine Sedimentary Environments
• Polar Landscapes and Remote Sensing
• Anthropology and Russian Northern Studies
• Circumpolar History and Public Policy
Institute staff organise seminar series in both polar
physical sciences and social science and humanities.
Speakers from universities and research centres in
the UK and overseas, together with Cambridge
colleagues, have contributed during the year. The
seminars are well attended by staff and research
students from a number of Cambridge departments
and from, for example, the British Antarctic Survey. A
selection of the physical and social science research
projects in which we are currently engaged is outlined
briefly below.
Scientists camp below Mt. Erebus, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
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