Antarctic Day is celebrated every year on December 1, the day when the 12 founding countries signed the Antarctic Treaty in 1959. At last year’s Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM XLII), the Consultative Parties reaffirmed their commitment to the principles and aims of the Treaty by adopting the Prague Declaration on the occasion of the… [read more]
Chile transmitted to all signatory states as well as to the organizations involved, through the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat “COVID-19 Protocol for control and monitoring of passengers and cargo entry to Antarctica through Chile”. This document seeks to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Chile and the Antarctic Peninsula area, and to protect professionals, researchers and… [read more]
The fourth Romanian Scientific Research Expedition in Antarctica (ROICE 2020), organized by the National Institute for Research and Development of Biological Sciences (INCDSB) started today, January 02, 2020, by the team departure to Antarctica. The ROICE 2020 expedition takes place from January 2 to February 04, 2020, at the King Sejong Antarctic Station of the… [read more]
The National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences (NIRDBS) is organizing the third Romanian Expedition of Scientific Research in Antarctica – ROICE 2019, at King Sejong Station of the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), King George Island, Barton Peninsula in the Western Antarctic, between January 17 and February 15, 2019. Based on the… [read more]