Polar Research

Published in partnership with the Norwegian Polar Institute

Edited by:
Helle V. Goldman

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 73/124 Ecology; 69/143 Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; 26/50 Oceanography
Impact Factor: 1.276

Polar Research is the international, peer-reviewed journal of the Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway's central institution for research, environmental monitoring and mapping of the polar regions. Aiming to promote the exchange of scientific knowledge about the Arctic and Antarctic across disciplinary boundaries, Polar Research serves an international community of researchers and managers.Original primary research papers comprise the mainstay of Polar Research. Review articles, brief research notes, letters to the editor and book reviews are also included. Special issues, typically conference proceedings, are published from time to time.Click here to recommend Polar Research to your Library.

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All content for Polar Research available online
Polar Research is delighted to announce 25 plus years of content now available online - dating back to Volume 1, Issue 1, first published in July 1982. To browse the contents, please go online. For further information on how to access these articles please visit our Librarian Site.

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Special Issues

NEW! Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in the Arctic
Download the Foreword and selected articles below free of charge or click here to view all articles from this Special Issue:

Foreword to the special issue: climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in the Arctic
James D. Ford, Chris Furgal

Community collaboration and climate change research in the Canadian Arctic
Tristan D. Pearce et al.

Canadian Inuit subsistence and ecological instability - if the climate changes, must the Inuit?
George W. Wenzel

The Boreal Triassic
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Foreword to the special issue: the Boreal Triassic
Atle Mørk et al.

The post-Caledonian development of Svalbard and the western Barents Sea
David Worsley

Evolution of the Triassic shelf in the northern Barents Sea region
Fridtjof Riis et al.

From the Editor
Halfway through the IPY - halfway for an Antarctic traverse

Polar Research evolves, and Norway and the IPY

Selected talks from World Environment Day
Why 'Melting ice' as a topic for the World Environment Day?
Achim Steiner

Melting ice - a personal view of climate change
Hinrich B. Bäsemann

Free to view articles
The following articles are available to download free of charge:

Carbon and nitrogen limitation of soil microbial respiration in a High Arctic successional glacier foreland near Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard
Shinpei Yoshitake, Masaki Uchida, Hiroshi Koizumi & Takayuki Nakatsubo

A long-term Arctic snow depth record from Abisko, northern Sweden, 1913-2004
Jack Kohler, Ola Brandt, Margareta Johansson & Terry Callaghan

Haul-out pattern of itinerant male Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) at Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands
Alejandro R. Carlini, Gustavo A. Daneri, Ricardo Casaux, María E. I. Márquez

Diesel oil and PCB-degrading psychrotrophic bacteria isolated from Antarctic seawaters (Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea)
Maria De Domenico, Angelina Lo Giudice, Luigi Michaud, Marcello Saitta & Vivia Bruni

The radiological environment of Svalbard
Justin P. Gwynn, Mark Dowdall, Corine Davids, Øyvind G. Selnæs & Bjørn Lind

Atlantic sources of the Arctic Ocean surface and halocline waters
Bert Rudels, E. Peter Jones, Ursula Schauer & Patrick Eriksson

Lipids and trophic linkages in harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) from the eastern Barents Sea
Stig Falk-Petersen, Tore Haug, Kjell T. Nilssen, Anette Wold & Trine M. Dahl

Satellite image based vegetation classification of a large area using limited ground reference data: a case study in the Usa Basin, north-east European Russia
Tarmo Virtanen, Kari Mikkola & Ari Nikula

Northward cooling and freshening of the warm core of the West Spitsbergen Current
Tuomo M. Saloranta & Peter M. Haugan

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IPY - International Polar Year