Project information

AYTON, Dr Jeffrey (Jeff)
Australian Antarctic Division
Casey, Davis, Macquarie Island, Marine Science, Mawson

Project aim

The IPY 2007-2008 provides a unique opportunity to create a human polar observatory and enhance our capacity to develop an innovative multinational and multidisciplinary Polar Health Surveillance System (PHSS) utilising synergies of existing national polar research programs, activities and data collection, and to coordinate the use of data from the PHSS to understand the biophysical, clinical, cultural, social and behavioural processes that shape the sustainability of circumpolar human societies.
Key questions include:
•   What physiological, psychosocial and clinical changes occur in humans interacting with the extreme environment of Antarctica?
•   Are these changes comparable to those experienced in Arctic populations?

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