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1/5/2009
Alan J. Parkinson, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, describes in lay language the thrust of the Arctic Human Health Initiative and how the current polar year provides a unique opportunity to focus on human health.
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12/31/2008
Capturing the high drama and stark beauty of historic polar expeditions, To the Ends of the Earth, Painting the Polar Landscape presents more than 50 works by prominent artist-explorers--all rarely shown in a single exhibition.
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12/29/2008
The U.S. will host the meeting in Baltimore in April. Almost 400 diplomats, Antarctic program personnel, and polar scientists from 47 countries will participate. The Treaty sets the continent aside strictly for peaceful and scientific purposes.
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12/24/2008
In this 2007 dispatch, Kathryn Schaffer Miknaitis, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago, describes the artificial tree erected by iron workers at Amundsen-Scott South Pole station with recycled materials.
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12/24/2008
Caribou have been vital to the survival of all native people whose homelands are now partially encompassed by Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve: Nunamiut Eskimos, Eskimo people of the Kobuk and Noatak Rivers, and Koyukon Indians.
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12/23/2008
Through the NSF-funded PolarTREC program, Wood, from Talbert Middle School in Huntington Beach, Calif. is part of a team from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology working at the volcano's summit. Read his journals.
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12/23/2008
The Artist in Residence program offers professional writers, composers, musicians, two and three-dimensional visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, and artisans an opportunity to pursue their art at Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
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12/22/2008
Focusing on Alaskan glaciers, the site examines one aspect of the global climate issue—the relationship between glaciers and climate. It incudes a PowerPoint presentation that "morphs" images from Kenai Fjords National Park to show change over time.
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12/18/2008
The polar ice caps have been shrinking in summer and expanding in winter for millions of years. But in the past 30 years, the Arctic sea ice at the end of each summer's melt has gotten steadily smaller. See an animation and read transcript.
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12/17/2008
The Antarctic Search for Meteorites program team has returned to the deep field and they seem to finding quite a few extraterrestrial rocks. Read their daily (they hope) dispatches.
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