At which UK university would you find the Scott Polar Research Institute?
"fully occupied by the MRC as their Biochemical Parasitology Unit and totally dedicated to research into parasitology, although the building was still rented from the University of Cambridge. In September 1987 it became part of the University of Cambridge's Pathology Department. Notable workers include Ann Bishop, Douglas Mackay Henderson, David Keilin, Thaddeus Mann and Brunó Ferenc Straub. Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology The Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology was a biological research institute in the University of Cambridge, UK, situated on the Downing Site and founded in response to an appeal by the Quick Professor by a $150"
"the University of Cambridge. Lewis-Jones' ongoing research interests include the intellectual history of exploration, maritime hagiography, and the cultural history of the nineteenth century. His particular expertise is in Antarctic and Arctic exploration, portraiture, print culture, and the history of photography and he lectures widely on these and other subjects. Until 2010, Lewis-Jones was historian and Curator of Art at the Scott Polar Research Institute. Founded in 1920, the Institute is the oldest international centre for polar research within a university and has recently been awarded a major Heritage Lottery Fund award to redevelop its permanent galleries, providing additional exhibition"
"Cambridge where he became a fellow of Gonville and Caius College and lecturer in cartography. In 1920, with the help of surplus funds raised by public donations in response to the tragedy, Debenham co-founded the Scott Polar Research Institute (Cambridge University) with Raymond Priestley, as a repository of polar information and a centre from which future expeditions could draw on support and experience. Debenham had developed the idea of such a learning centre in 1912 while in Antarctica. He was unpaid director of the Institute from 1920 to 1946. As director of the institute, Debenham, in conjunction with Priestley and"
"a Professor of Physical Geography and Director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre, University of Bristol and then to the University of Cambridge in 2001. He became the director of the Scott Polar Research Institute in 2002. He is also a professorial fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. His research focuses on the form and flow of glaciers and ice caps and their response to climate change, and the links between former ice sheets and the marine geological record, using a variety of satellite, airborne and shipborne geophysical tools. Julian A. Dowdeswell Julian A. Dowdeswell (born 18 November 1957) is a British"
"Piers Vitebsky Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist and is the Head of Social Science at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England. Vitebsky studied his undergraduate degree in Classics with Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1971. He then went on to take a diploma in Social Anthropology at the Oxford University. In the late seventies he was an affiliated student at the Delhi School of Economics. Eventually he completed his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 1982. Since the 1980s, Vitebsky has carried out long-term fieldwork"
"personnel, consisting of academic, library and support staff plus postgraduate students, associates and fellows attached to research programmes. The institute also hosts the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, and is part of the NERC Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling. The Grade II listed main building (1933–34) is by Sir Herbert Baker. The small halls have shallow domed ceilings painted with the aspect of the globe from north and south poles, by MacDonald Gill. The Scott Polar Research Institute houses the world's most comprehensive polar library and archives. The Institute's Thomas H. Manning Archive contains an unparalleled collection of manuscript"
"commission on 30 June 1926, retaining the rank of major. His research and thesis on glaciers in the Antarctic earned him a BA (Research) at Cambridge in 1920. The same year, he co-founded, with fellow Terra Nova expedition member Frank Debenham, the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. In 1922, Priestley was elected fellow of Clare College. In 1924 he joined the university's administrative staff, becoming concurrently assistant registrar, secretary to the board of research studies and secretary-general of the faculties. From the 1930s until his retirement, he held a series of academic and government administrative posts in Australia and"
"Frank Debenham Frank Debenham, OBE (26 December 1883 – 23 November 1965) was Emeritus Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography, Cambridge University and first director of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Debenham was born in Bowral, New South Wales, Australia in December 1883, the younger twin and third child of Rev. John Willmott Debenham and Edith (née Cleveland). He attended the school run by his father before attending The King's School, Parramatta where he was the top academic and sporting student of his year. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a BA in English and philosophy,"
"the polar seas. This group's work focuses on the processes which modify the polar and sub-polar environments, such as Arctic vegetation, and snow and ice cover. Improving techniques for measuring vegetation from satellite data is an important part of the work. This is an interdisciplinary group covering the anthropology, history and art of the Arctic. Its work includes looking at politics and environmental management in the polar regions, with particular expertise in the religion, culture and politics of the Russian North. Scott Polar Research Institute The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) is a centre for research into the polar regions"
"surplus for eventual use as the startup endowment of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), part of Cambridge University. Under these conditions, Ponting's Antarctic work took on a tragic overtone and became a memorial to Scott and his companions rather than a celebration. It was, however, used extensively in the press and exhibited at the Fine Art Society, Bond Street, shown in venues all over Britain and used in numerous lectures by Ponting and other expedition members (including at Buckingham Palace and the Royal Albert Hall). When World War I began Ponting tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade the War Office to"
"Polar Research and Policy Initiative Polar Research and Policy Initiative, commonly known as PRPI or The Polar Connection, is an independent, international foreign policy think-tank dedicated primarily to the Arctic, Nordic, Baltic and Antarctic regions, as well as energy and environment issues. PRPI is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and has an international presence across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific, notably through the geographic distribution of its Fellows, Advisors and Affiliates. PRPI operates principally in the international arena and is committed to supporting sustainable regional development through multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral and multi-national dialogue and cooperation. It is credited with championing"
"Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling The Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling (CPOM) is a centre for research into polar region processes which may affect: polar atmosphere and ocean circulation; the Earth's albedo; and global sea levels. It is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, a UK Research Council. CPOM comprises research groups from 3 Universities: University College London, University of Bristol, and University of Edinburgh. In 2006, research carried out by CPOM resulted in the press report ""Secret rivers found in Antarctic"". The survey used the European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite radar to measure a region in"
"Adam Mickiewicz University Polar Station Polar Research Station ""Petuniabukta"" by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań – Polish seasonal polar research station on Spitsbergen. Located in the Petuniabukta (Petunia Bay), in the Northern part of Billefjord, and central part of Spitsbergen island in the Svalbard archipelago. The first expedition of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan at Spitsbergen took place in 1984. In the years 1984-1989, a research project focused on the research and creation of the Petuniabukta geomorphological map. In the 1990s, the research continued in the area of the Polish Polar Station Hornsund. In 2000, a new cycle of"
"is the Shackleton Memorial Library, which in 1999 won a regional award from the Royal Institute of British Architects. This part of the building holds much of the library's Antarctic collection, as well as some of its subject-based material. The library is part of the Inspire Libraries scheme and is open to anyone with a polar interest to use for reference work and research. SPRI operates the Polar Museum, which presents a range of objects, artworks, documents and photographs from the Institute's extensive polar collections. The collections include material related to polar history, exploration, science, art and Arctic cultures. In"
"as professor of geography. He was president of the Institute of British Geographers between 1937 and 1938 and at different times served as the president of the Arctic and Antarctic clubs. He died in Sheffield on 27 January 1957, bequeathing his polar library to the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. Robert Rudmose-Brown Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown was an academic botanist and polar explorer. Rudmose-Brown was born on 13 September 1879, the younger son of an Arctic enthusiast and educated at Dulwich College. After reading Natural Sciences at Aberdeen University his first academic post was teaching botany at University College, Dundee,"
"South Pole, is preserved. In the film Scott of the Antarctic, Wilson was played by Harold Warrender. In the Central TV production 'The Last Place on Earth', Wilson was played by Stephen Moore. In the BBC Four production 'The Worst Journey in the World', Wilson was played by John Artur. Wilson's artwork and objects relating to him appear in several museum collections. The largest collection of his artwork is held at the Scott Polar Research Institute, part of the University of Cambridge, which cares for over 200 watercolours of British birds by Wilson, as well as a further 150 paintings"
"windy than McMurdo Station. The maximum wind velocities experienced have been gusts up to with steady velocities under blizzard conditions of . The highest recorded temperature was , the coolest and the mean temperature . Scott Base 50th Anniversary Website NZ Antarctic Research Scott Base The Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research facility located at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim. The research facility was named in honour of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, RN, leader of two British expeditions to the Ross Sea area of Antarctica. The base was"
"Scott Base The Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research facility located at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim. The research facility was named in honour of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, RN, leader of two British expeditions to the Ross Sea area of Antarctica. The base was set up as support to field research and the centre for research into earth sciences, and now conducts research in many fields, operated by Antarctica New Zealand. By road, the base is from the larger U.S. McMurdo Station. Scott Base was originally constructed"
"and also the Degree Committee and Appointments Committee at the University. He served on the Scott Polar Research Institute, Committee of Management from 1953 to 1957, when it was taken over by the University, and then continued to serve on its advisory committee. He was Librarian at the Department of Geology from 1968 to 1977 and also built up an extensive personal library. He regularly worked 14 hours a day or more. Some 60,000 specimens of rocks, fossils and cores collected during the Cambridge Svalbard period are now in the care of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. These include"
"recognition of the Decennial of the Institute of Polar Studies, Ohio State University, in 1970, the same year the University celebrated its Centennial. The university and the Institute have been very active in Antarctic investigations since 1960. Mount Elizabeth is a large ice-free mountain 4,480 metres high situated 6 mi south of Mount Anne. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition and named for Elizabeth Dawson-Lambton, a supporter of the BAE. Mount Fox is a mountain standing 1 mi SW of Mount F.L. Smith. Discovered and named by the British Antarctic Expedition. Mount Ida is a conspicuous bare rock mountain, standing"
"which is dedicated to Captain Scott and his men, and focuses on the exploration of the Polar Regions. The Cambridge University Botanic Garden is the botanic garden of the university, created in 1831. The university's publishing arm, the Cambridge University Press, is the oldest printer and publisher in the world, and it is the second largest university press in the world. The university set up its Local Examination Syndicate in 1858. Today, the syndicate, which is known as Cambridge Assessment, is Europe's largest assessment agency and it plays a leading role in researching, developing and delivering assessments across the globe."
"environmental data and undertakes physiological research while on the ice with the University of Essex. Stancer was awarded an honorary fellowship from the Polar exploration society. She also received the Mirror award for bravery from the Royal Geographical Society and holds an honorary degree from the University of Essex and is Honorary Vice-President of the Scientific Exploration Society. Rosie Stancer Rosie Stancer née Clayton (born 1960) is a British explorer and polar adventurer. Rosie Stancer attended Butterstone House School in Scotland and then Heathfield School, Ascot. She holds an honorary degree from the University of Essex and is a Fellow"
"Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC) is a polar, alpine, and climate research center at The Ohio State University founded in 1960. The Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC) at Ohio State University was established in 1960 as the Institute for Polar Studies. BPRC is the oldest research center at The Ohio State University. The name was changed to the Byrd Polar Research Center in 1987 after the polar explorer and aviator Richard E. Byrd when Ohio State purchased the Byrd papers from the Byrd family in 1985. Admiral Byrd did not attend"
"distribution of sea ice and its effect on shipping in the Canadian Arctic, which involved the first hand observation of sea ice conditions from aboard the icebreaker ""Labrador"" in the Baffin Island region. In 1959 he moved to the University of Michigan to take up an appointment as a research associate and lecturer, spending three summers in the Antarctic investigating the glaciers which feed the Ross Ice Shelf in New Zealand’s Ross Dependency. He then returned to Britain to take up a further research appointment at the Scott Polar Research Institute, spending two summers and a winter in the Antarctic"
"South Pole winter-over program from 1989 to 1994. He was appointed by the National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board as a US delegate to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Geosciences Standing Scientific Group from 1995–July 2012 and was appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1994. Mullins Valley appears in the Antarctic research literature, on the maps from the British expedition of Captain Scott and in aerial photographs from the United States expedition Operation Highjump by Admiral Byrd. Mullins Valley, Mullins Lake, Mullins Glacier, and Mullins Geodetic Station, Antarctica are named for United"
"say Establish a scientific station and Republic of Turkey's scientific research vessel study Increase scientific studies which focus on global warming in Arctic and Antarctic regions, international publishing and participation to international scientific platforms Engage training activities Istanbul Technical University Polar Research Center Istanbul Technical University Polar Research Center (ITU PolReC) was established in 2015. ITU PolReC is the first polar research center in Turkey. One year after its establishment, the ITU PolReC had its first expedition to Antarctica. ITU PolReC has MoU's with some of most known institute doing polar sciences ITU PolReC participated in 38th ATCM in Sofia,"
"works include: ""In the Antarctic: Stories of Scott's Last Expedition 1952""; ""Antarctica – The story of a continent""; ""Discovery & Exploration""; ""Kalahari Sand""; ""Nyasaland""; ""The way to Ilala""; ""Study of African Swamp""; ""Simple Surveying""; ""The use of Geography""; ""Map Making""; ""The World is Round""; ""Space – The Global Atlas"". Frank Debenham died in Cambridge in 1965, aged 81, survived by his wife, a son and four daughters. Frank Debenham Frank Debenham, OBE (26 December 1883 – 23 November 1965) was Emeritus Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography, Cambridge University and first director of the Scott Polar Research Institute."
"in the Arctic and policy and business opportunities to address these issues at North by North Festival in Anchorage, Alaska. Dr Dwayne Ryan Menezes The members of the PRPI UK Advisory Board include: The members of the PRPI International Advisory Board include: Polar Research and Policy Initiative Polar Research and Policy Initiative, commonly known as PRPI or The Polar Connection, is an independent, international foreign policy think-tank dedicated primarily to the Arctic, Nordic, Baltic and Antarctic regions, as well as energy and environment issues. PRPI is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and has an international presence across North America, Europe"
"polar history and development of arctic areas as well as walking from Coulags Croft in Coulags in the highlands of Scotland. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to science. Dougal Goodman Dougal Jocelyn Goodman is a British scientist, chief executive of the Foundation for Science and Technology. Goodman studied at Christ's College, Cambridge and researched the mechanical properties of ice at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge under Professor David Tabor. In 1980 he worked for BP managing a research programme on the effects of ice forces on offshore"
"expanded again, to occupy two floors in an adjacent building where new laboratories, seminar rooms and offices are housed. Since then, the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies have been integrated into the teaching and research activities of the Department (2001), and the Scott Polar Research Institute become a sub-department in 2002. Today, the Department has 35 academic staff including ten professors and four readers. Research in the department is organised in the following research clusters: The department has produced a large range of notable alumni, including"
"Godwin Laboratory, University of Cambridge The Godwin Laboratory is a research facility at the University of Cambridge. It was originally set up to investigate radiocarbon dating and its applications, and was one of the first laboratories to determine a radiocarbon calibration curve. The lab is named after the English scientist Harry Godwin. With the late Professor Sir Nicholas Shackleton in charge, the focus of research shifted to marine isotope records, which document changes in the size of polar ice sheets and temperature changes. This research helped to establish the Milankovitch Theory as the most plausible explanation of glacial/interglacial changes over"
"College London in 1993 for research on cognitive science in 1993 supervised by Peter Howell. Scott started her research career in Cambridge at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, formerly known as the Applied Psychology Unit. She returned to UCL as a Research Fellow in 1998. She was awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in 2001 and has been funded by them since. she holds a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship. She is a member of the British Psychological Society, the Society for Neuroscience, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and the Experimental Psychology Society. Scott is head of the"
"Scottish National Antarctic Expedition on the ex-whaling ship ""Scotia"", under William Speirs Bruce, Pirie acting as both surgeon and geologist. This involved spending the majority of 1903 on a makeshift base on the South Orkney Islands. He went on to postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh and was awarded his doctorate (MD) in 1907 after producing his thesis - 'On the smaller polygonal cells of the grey matter of the spinal cord'. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Daniel John Cunningham, Alexander Bruce, Henry Harvey Littlejohn and David Waterston."