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12/16/2008
The Yup’ik people have no word for science yet their tools were so well designed that they allowed the Yupiit to live in a land no one else would inhabit. An on-line version of the NSF-funded exhibit documents the depth and scope of Yupiit knowledge.
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12/8/2008
This Web site serves as a gateway to Arctic scientific research at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The site includes clips of polar bears and walrus taken during research cruises.
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12/5/2008
Writing in 1663, a magazine published by Los Alamos National Laboratory, researchers explain how their computer models forecast that, unless greenhouse emissions are reduced, the Arctic Ocean will, by 2040, be ice-free for part of each year.
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12/1/2008
The slide show is one of several on-line activites for children on the park's Web site.
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11/28/2008
The lecture was given at the University of Delaware on Nov. 14 by Richard Alley, a geoscientist at Penn State, as one of the university's William S. Carlson IPY events. The lectures honor a former university president and polar researcher.
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11/28/2008
The United States has strong diplomatic interests in Antarctica, in particular promoting its status as a continent reserved for peace and science in accordance with the provisions of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959.
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11/24/2008
Middle-school science teacher Shakira Brown, a teacher at New York's Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy, spent several months working with scientists in Antarctica and communciating with students in the U.S.
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11/21/2008
For her scientific achievements, including pioneering research that helped explain the cause of the ozone hole, NOAA Senior Scientist Susan Solomon will receive the Grande Medaille from the Institute of France’s Academy of Sciences.
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11/18/2008
Robin Bell, of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is the NSF-funded co-leader of multi-national expedition to explore the mysterious Gamburtsev Mountains. Follow her journey.
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11/18/2008
Meredith Vieira interviews NSF-funded researcher Stacy Kim, who uses custom-built robots to explore the icy waters of McMurdo Sound. See the interview and underwater footage.
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