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2025
Research Highlights
- Cloud Observations in the Southern Ocean Pave the Way to Better Climate ModelsJune 11,2025
- Revealing long-term changes in the marine environment and ecosystems of the Southern OceanApril 7,2025
- Enhanced westerly winds lead to increased ocean heat transport to the East Antarctic Ice Sheet ～Mechanism of Global Warming Accelerating Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting～April 3,2025
News
- A new national Arctic research initiative, ArCS III (Arctic Challenge for Sustainability III), was officially launchedApril 11, 2025
2024
Research Highlights
- Japan’s Antarctic Meteorite Collection earns global recognition as IUGS Geo-collectionMarch 12,2025
- Temperature, rainfall and tides speed glacier flow on a daily basisFebruary 6, 2025
- Unraveling the Connection Between Canadian Wildfires and Arctic Ice CloudsJanuary 27,2025
- Empowering Numerical Weather Predictions with Drones as Meteorological ToolsJanuary 23,2025
- Gaps identified in gravity wave simulations over AntarcticaDecember 25, 2024
- This year’s dazzling aurora produced a spectacular display… of citizen scienceDecember 4, 2024
- Arctic Warming May Fuel Ice Formation in CloudsSeptember 19, 2024
- Impacts of Subglacial Meltwater Discharge on Biological Production in the fjordJuly 31, 2024
News
- The academic journal “Polar Science” features the seventh International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-7)December 4, 2024
- The 15th Symposium on Polar Science will be held on 3 to 5 December 2024May 30, 2024
2023
Research Highlights
- Insights On the Formation of Polar Ice CloudsDecember 1, 2023
- Enhancing the Safety and Efficacy of Drone Flights in Polar RegionsOctober 18, 2023
- Delineating the Pathways of Warm Water Towards East Antarctica’s Totten GlacierAugust 22, 2023
- Plant life determines soil bacteria diversity in the Arctic tundraJune 24, 2023
- Out of this World Control on Ice Age CyclesMay 15, 2023
- Japan sets up online portal for ‘space weather’ researchers and educatorsApril 17, 2023
News
- Researchers leverage machine learning to improve space weather predictionsFebruary 27, 2024
- Real-time Transmission of 8K Video from Antarctica via Starlink a Success For DX of Antarctic expedition members' work and for support for releasing newsFebruary 26, 2024
- Professor Yutaka Kondo, Project Professor at National Institute of Polar Research awarded the Order of the Sacred TreasureApril 29, 2023
2022
Research Highlights
- Snow cover in the Antarctic interior has decreased over the past 5,000 years, with a marked increase since the Industrial Revolution -Clarified from ice cores in the Dome Fuji area, Antarctica-March 31, 2023
- Testing Out a New Ceilometer that Can Distinguish Between Ice and Liquid CloudsNovember 17, 2022
- Using Small Drones to Measure Wind Speeds in the Polar RegionsOctober 28, 2022
- Getting to The Bottom of The Arctic Sea Ice Decline: Investigation of Heat Movement near The North Pole and Under the Arctic Sea IceAugust 30, 2022
- Towards Better and Sustainable Weather Forecasting in the Southern HemisphereAugust 23, 2022
- Asteroid Ryugu is a drifter from the outer Solar System: Results from the Hayabusa2 Phase-2 Curation Kochi Team published in Nature AstronomyAugust 18, 2022
- Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Lowest Ever RecordedJune 15, 2022
- Seal whiskers, the secret weapon for huntingJune 14, 2022
News
- The 14th Symposium on Polar Science will be held on 14-17 November 2023March 30, 2023
- The 2nd ArCS II Public Lecture will be held on March 11, 2023February 1, 2023
- The academic journal “Polar Science” features Energy and Buildings in cold & Polar regionsDecember 28, 2022
- Dr. Ryuho Kataoka's "Extreme Space Weather" is publishedMay 13, 2022
- Dr. Asgeir Brekke (Norway), former Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Polar Research, awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck RibbonMay 13, 2022
- The 13th Symposium on Polar Science will be held with an Online Meeting System from 15-18 November 2022.April 28, 2022
2021
Research Highlights
- Melting Arctic glaciers see drop in fungi biodiversityMarch 31, 2022
- Humans and nature responsible for mid-20th century Arctic temperature changesMarch 31, 2022
- Low-Cost Drone Offers Opportunity to Expand Data Acquisition Coverage in Polar RegionsJanuary 7, 2022
- Antarctic oceanographers use seals to do research where ships fear to goJanuary 7, 2022
- First standardization of black carbon measurements in the ArcticDecember 17, 2021
- A Song of Ice and Cloud: Marine Aerosols from Southern Ocean Help Summer Ice Cloud GrowthDecember 10, 2021
- United Nations sea treaty should help protect penguins, researchers sayDecember 10, 2021
- Large semi-stationary eddies whip warm water toward melting East Antarctic ice shelfNovember 10, 2021
- Researchers track changes in Greenland ice core dust over the past 100 yearsNovember 9, 2021
- Twelfth century literature and space-age data help map 3,000 years of aurorasOctober 11, 2021
- How Do Higher Waves Cause More Ice Clouds? Research Expedition into Arctic Sea ExplainsSeptember 17, 2021
- Understanding Antarctic ice historic changes could reveal future changesAugust 23, 2021
- Scientists deploy albatrosses to track plastic pollutionAugust 6, 2021
- Elephant seal diving mystery solved: 24-hour feeding could be climate change sentinelJune 28, 2021
- New marine scale worm species first to provide evidence of male dwarfismJune 7, 2021
- Enabling simple assessment of the impact of observation data on weather forecast, and clarifying the contribution of Arctic observation data to improve seven-day North American weather forecastMay 14, 2021
- Psychological forest: What trees reveal about Antarctic researchersMarch 30, 2021
- Extinct Niobium Isotope Reveals the Long-Kept Secrets of the Solar SystemMarch 11, 2021
- Antarctic Peninsula Warming Up Due to Heat in Tasman SeaMarch 9, 2021
- Arctic Ocean Expedition Advances Climate ModelingJanuary 27, 2021
News
- First demonstration of private 5G at Syowa Station in AntarcticaFebruary 25, 2022
- The Seventh International Symposium on Arctic Research（ISAR-7）will be held in March 2023February 16, 2022
- Academic journal Polar Science features 40 years of India's activities in polar researchFebruary 4, 2022
- NIPR contributed to the 3rd Arctic Science Ministerial (ASM3), which was held in Tokyo, Japan, for the first time in Asia.August 10, 2021
- The 12th Symposium on Polar Science will be held with an Online Meeting System from 15-18 November 2021.July 28, 2021
- Polar Science ArCS special issue is publishedApril 12, 2021
- The science symposium of the Asian Forum for Polar Sciences (AFoPS) was held successfully onlineMarch 31, 2021
2020
Research Highlights
- Delayed Arctic ice advance tracked back to atmospheric conditions near Alaska months priorDecember 18, 2020
- Mystery of Siberian freshwater seal food choice solvedNovember 27, 2020
- Researchers provide most detailed and complete record yet of Earth's last magnetic reversalOctober 22, 2020
- Arctic weather observations can improve hurricane track forecast accuracyOctober 13, 2020
- On the trail of causes of radiation events during space flightOctober 5, 2020
- Japanese expedition identifies East Antarctic melting hotspotSeptember 10, 2020
- Birds of a feather flock together, but timing depends on typhoonsAugust 27, 2020
- Biologists discover new species of sea worm in the Southern OceanAugust 17, 2020
- New technique enables mineral ID of precious Antarctic micrometeoritesJuly 31, 2020
- Antarctic penguins happier with less sea iceJune 25, 2020
News
- The 11th Symposium on Polar Science will be held with an Online Meeting System from 16 November to 18 December 2020.Aug 9, 2020
- Natsuo Sato, Professor Emeritus of NIPR, was elected as a Fellow of JpGU in 2020May 1, 2020
- Job announcement for professor position in Biology Group, Division for Research and EducationMarch 24, 2020
- Job announcement for assistant professor position in the Center for Antarctic ProgramsFebruary 17, 2020
2019
Research Highlights
- Researchers Unveil Effects of Dust Particles on Cloud PropertiesMarch 26, 2019
- Shedding Light on the Science of Auroral BreakupsFebruary 15, 2019
- Scientists identify two new species of fungi in retreating Arctic glacierJanuary 16, 2019
News
- Job announcement for professor position in Geoscience GroupOctober 28, 2019
2018
Research Highlights
- Extra Arctic observations can improve predictability of tropical cyclonesSeptember 26,2018
- Dominance shift from macroalgae to corals across Japanese coastal communities: roles of climate change, ocean currents and herbivoryAugust 21,2018
- Arctic cyclone limits the time-scale of precise sea-ice prediction in Northern Sea Route?August 8,2018
- How does the sun's rotational cycle influence lightning activity on earth?July 24,2018
- Researchers investigate the correlation between wind and wave height in the Arctic OceanJune 15, 2018
- A plant pathogen affects carbon dynamics in the Arctic ecosystemMay 14, 2018
News
- Job announcement for assistant professor position in Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences GroupSeptember 6, 2018
- Job announcement for professor position in Bioscience GroupFebruary 15, 2018
2017
Research Highlights
- Jellyfish and other gelata as food for four penguin species – insights from predator-borne videosSeptember 29, 2017
- Observations of Red Aurora over 1770 Kyoto Help Diagnose Extreme Magnetic StormSeptember 28, 2017
- Phoenicid Meteor Shower from Dead Comet Arises again after 58 YearsAugust 25, 2017
- EISCAT_3D, the new Arctic radar for space weather research gets go-ahead for constructionAugust 10, 2017
- Successful filming of fastest aurora flickeringAugust 10, 2017
- Charting the skies of historyJuly 5, 2017
- Climate instability over the past 720,000 yearsJune 29, 2017
- Determination of precise ratio of surface mass balance between two dome summit sites at Dome Fuji and Dome C in AntarcticaMay 2, 2017
- Two New Species of Fungus Discovered for the First Time in the History of the Japanese Antarctic Research ExpeditionMarch 31, 2017
- Mycoflora changes in areas of deglaciationMarch 31, 2017
- Additional Arctic weather data raises forecast accuracy of Japan cold waves10.3.2017
News
- National Institute of Polar Research Open Access Policy was implemented on November 24, 2017November 30, 2017
- Job announcement for professor position in Geoscience GroupSeptember 13, 2017
- Job announcement for professor position in Space and Upper Atmosphere Sciences GroupSeptember 13, 2017
- The Eighth Symposium on Polar Science will be held on December 4-8, 2017April 18, 2017
2016
Research Highlights
- [Research Highlight] Layered densification of the Antarctic firn explained12.12.2016
- [Research Highlight] Factors promoting growth of cryoconite granule formation and glacial/ice sheet melting4.11.2016
- [Research Highlight] Research Highlight] Atmospheric CO2 concentration at Syowa Station in Antarctica exceeds 400 ppm1.11.2016
- [Research Highlight] Migration ranges of flying birds depend on body size and flight style1.11.2016
- [Research Highlight] Great hammerhead sharks swim on their sides to reduce energy expenditure13.10.2016
- [Research Highlight] Antarctic yeast's survival strategies: consuming energy to prevent from intracellular freezing13.10.2016
- [Research Highlight] Changes in Antarctic sea ice production due to surrounding ice conditions - Impact of the changes to the ice sheet on global ocean circulation
News
- Job announcement12.15.2016
- The Seventh Symposium on Polar Science7.4.2016
- Integrating Arctic Research – a Roadmap for the Future ICARPIII final report24.2.2016
- [News Release] Animals revived after being in a frozen state for over 30 years17.2.2016
- [News Release] Optimized Arctic observations for improving weather forecast in the Northern Sea Rout13.1.2016
- [News Release] An ice core study to determine the timing and duration of historical climate stages5.1.2016
2015
- Join the ArCS e-mail newsletter!16.12.2015
- The ArCS (Arctic Challenge for Sustainability) website has opened.05.10.2015
- [News Release] An improved age for Earth's latest magnetic field reversal using radiometric dating7.08.2015
- The Sixth Symposium on Polar Science28.04.2015
- [News Release] Balloon-Assisted UAV Brings Back Stratospheric Aerosol Samples from Altitude of 22km in Antarctica3.30.2015
2014
- Japan-Russia Workshop on Arctic Research was held.12.11.2014
- Arctic Science Summit Week(ASSW2015) 3rd Circular, Call for Abstracts and Registration is now open!!19.09.2014
- The Fifth Symposium on Polar Science19.05.2014
- Penguins forage optimally as classic theory predicts29.01.2014
- New finding: an ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite collected from the bare ice field around the Yamato Mountains10.01.2014
- The 7th International SHRIMP Workshop,201427.12.2013
- Meteorite Newsletter,Vol.2201.11.2013
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