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Expedition reports, workshops, conferences and new dataset releases from India's polar science community.
Expedition
24 August 202643rd Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica sets sail
The summer team departs for Maitri and Bharati with a payload of automatic weather stations and ice-core drilling equipment.
Workshop
11 Jul 2026Workshop: Polar Data Standards and FAIR Repositories
A three-day hands-on workshop on metadata standards, NetCDF conventions and open publication of cryosphere datasets.
Research
2 Jun 2026Himansh station records earliest melt onset in a decade
Chandra basin mass-balance stakes show an early transition to melt conditions, consistent with regional warming trends.
Collaboration
18 Apr 2026India and Norway renew Arctic research cooperation
A renewed memorandum expands joint atmospheric observation campaigns at Ny-Ålesund through 2031.
Dataset
5 Mar 2026Southern Ocean carbon flux dataset released to the public
Underway pCO₂ observations from three expedition seasons are now downloadable in CSV and NetCDF formats.