The German National Centre for Polar and Marine Research focuses on scientific research in the polar regions, national coordination of polar research projects and logistic support of polar expeditions from other German institutes. The Institute focus is to achieve a better understanding of the complex relationship between water, ice, the atmosphere and the seabed as well as the fauna and flora. Part of the University of Cambridge. SPRI is the oldest research centre in the world which covers both the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Research groups include a Remote Sensing Group, a Sea Ice and Polar Oceanography Group.
Research also focuses on polar ecology and polar history.
This directory provides brief details of museums known to have collections relating to the Arctic and Antarctic. Compiled by William Mills, Librarian and Information Officer at the Scott Polar Research Institute, as part of a new reference work Keyguide to information sources on the polar and cold regions. This program studies the relationship between global and Arctic climates. AMAP's objectives are to measure the levels, and assess the effects of anthropogenic pollutants in all compartments of the Arctic environment, including humans. The centre also performs variability and trend studies of atmospheric ozone, greenhouse gases and UV radiation, as well as studies of the marine carbon cycle and injection of CO2 into the ocean.