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8/15/2007
Forecasting the weather on Earth’s highest, driest and windiest continent is difficult. This NSF-funded site explains for the public exactly why and why it matters. The modules also are downloadable.
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8/4/2007
Two federal ageices will jointly launch a $5 million, three-and-a-half year research program to study endangered North Pacific right whales.
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8/4/2007
Charged with protecting the marine environment, while fostering responsible development of the nation’s offshore natural resources, including the Alaskan Arctic, MMS funds multiple IPY projects.
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7/29/2007
RUSALCA is a joint research initiative of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Russian Academy of Sciences. RUSALCA also is Russian for "mermaid."
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7/26/2007
NOAA’s Teacher at Sea program has unveiled its third in a series of four planned children’s books. The latest is about the experiences of teacher Linda Armwood aboard NOAA ship Fairweather
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7/26/2007
A research expedition to the site of the collapsed Larsen B ice shelf leads to a rare glimpse of previously undetected life forms surviving in extreme conditions.
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7/13/2007
Two University of Delaware researchers were among a science party that lived in a frigid ice camp this spring as part of a $1.4 million NSF project they have dubbed SEDNA, for Sea-ice Experiment: Dynamic Nature of the Arctic.
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7/5/2007
The Mt. Erebus Volcano Observatory (MEVO) homepage has extensive collections of photos and video about living and working atop a 14,000-foot volcano and how science benefits from that experience.
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7/5/2007
Working at 14,000 feet, scientists with the Mt. Erebus Volcano Observatory (MEVO) study all facets of volcanic activity including Erebus' global environmental impacts.
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7/5/2007
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are ice-free deserts where an international science team is able to uniquely access volcanic rock to study the “plumbing system” that transports magma to the earth’s crust.
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