SHACKLETON MEDAL 2025: MEET THE SHORTLIST - TWILA MOON
As lead editor of NOAA’s Arctic Report Card, Moon coordinated 97 scientists across 11 countries to assess the state of the Arctic in 2024 - concluding that the region is now emitting more carbon th...
Read moreSHACKLETON MEDAL 2025: MEET THE SHORTLIST - ALEX CORNELISSEN
Returning to Antarctica this year with Sea Shepherd, Cornelissen continues to lead a campaign to expose the environmental risks of krill fishing and transshipments in the Southern Ocean. His decade...
Read moreSHACKLETON MEDAL 2025: MEET THE SHORTLIST - PROFESSOR ANNA WÅHLIN
Anna Wåhlin led the breakthrough mission deploying the RAN autonomous underwater vehicle beneath the Dotson Ice Shelf, producing the first detailed maps of its underside. Her findings offer game-ch...
Read moreSHACKLETON MEDAL 2025: MEET THE SHORTLIST - FELICITY ASTON
The first woman to cross Antarctica solo, Felicity Aston completed the final leg of the “B.I.G. (Before It’s Gone) Arctic Research Expedition” last year—collecting vital environmental samples in th...
Read moreSHACKLETON MEDAL 2025: MEET THE SHORTLIST - PAUL NICKLEN
Conservationist, Marine-Biologist and Photographer. Co-founder of SeaLegacy, Nicklen continues to use breathtaking imagery to shift public perception of the ocean’s importance. His exhibition Rever...
Read moreSHACKLETON MEDAL 2025: MEET THE SHORTLIST - JAMIN S GREENBAUM
I was inspired by Ernest Shackleton from the beginning – I’d read his account of the Endurance expedition in South. But at first my interest in polar exploration during his time motivated me to loo...
Read moreSHACKLETON MEDAL 2025 - THE SHORTLIST
From an exceptional longlist, we are proud to reveal the eight individuals shortlisted for the 2025 Shackleton Medal. This year’s shortlist represents an equal balance of women and men, with expert...
Read moreThe first three years of the Shackleton Medal have revealed three extraordinary individuals continuing Shackleton's legacy at the poles. In this fourth year, we are very excited to announce the fel...
Read moreOFF GRID // MOROCCO SPRING 2025
There’s a moment, deep in the Agafay Desert, the horizon blurs, the high Atlas Mountains swallowed by sky, where the line between where you are and where you’re going ceases to matter. The sun drop...
Read moreI DO NOT WISH TO BE GOOD – AN INTERVIEW WITH SHACKLETON MEDAL JUDGE, WRITER SARA WHEELER
Sara Wheeler is the author of Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, two vivid, widely admired accounts of her time in the Antarctic and the Arctic. Here she talks about the beauty of ice cores, s...
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