This polar project of our team spanned the period 2009-2011. Among its main achievements we highlight the following ones: 1) we did a complete reanalysis of the mass balance data collected by our team on Johnsons and Hurd glaciers (Livingston Island, Antarctica) during the decade 2001-2011, and uploaded these data to the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) database; 2) we developed, combining mass balance data with data from the automatic weather station deployed on Johnsons glacier, a surface ablation model for Johnsons and Hurd glaciers; 3) we did a three-dimensional extension of Benn et al.?s (2007) calving model and applied it to Johnsons glacier; 4) we studied, in collaboration with researchers from the British Antarctic Survey, the effects of divide migration, along-ridge flow, and basal sliding on the isochrones near an ice divide; and 5) we completed the development of the new ground-penetrating radar VIRL7 (in particular, its control and recording unit). The fieldwork undertaken during this period included glaciological campaigns (mass balance, ice dynamics) on Livingston Island during all the austral summer seasons spanned by the project period, and campaigns in Svalbard, focused on ground-penetrating radar, in the springs of 2009, 2010 and 2011 (the fist and last ones, Hornsund-based, and the middle one, Barentsburg-based). The last Arctic campaign included radio-echo soundings from helicopter.