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7/18/2008
Researchers with the NSF-funded Inglefield Land Archaeology project will be working this summer at Cape Grinnell, a site where European and Thule native cultures first came into contact in the 1800's.
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7/18/2008
Several snowmobiles navigated speedily over the Alaskan outback in late June. This scene might seem ordinary except that the recently unveiled snowmobiles are autonomous, toy-size robots called SnoMotes – the first in a prototype network.
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7/17/2008
A lone granite boulder found against all odds high atop a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost continent once were connected to North America hundreds of millions of years ago.
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7/3/2008
A Webcast of the joint Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)IPY Conference opening ceremony was broadcast on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at http://www.arcticportal.org/.
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6/30/2008
During Earth Month in April, Mark Ivey, site manager for the Deprtment of Energy's ARM Climate Research Facility on the North Slope of Alaska, was interviewed about climate change and in particular, its impacts in the Arctic.
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6/26/2008
Learn more about the animals in the Arctic Ocean food chain from this interactive illustration produced by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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6/26/2008
In March 2008, an NSF-funded research team launched into the Bering Sea to learn more about how its complex ecosystem works and how it may be affected by impending climate change.
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6/11/2008
New research that integrates seismic recordings with GPS measurements indicates that a 7,000-square-mile region of an Antarctic ice stream moves more than two feet twice every day in an earthquake-like pattern equivalent to a Magnitude 7 temblor.
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6/11/2008
Scientists aboard the research vessel Knorr this Spring measured chemical pollutants transported to the Arctic to understand how they may be sparking new chemical reactions and contributing to warming.
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6/11/2008
For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods--any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages--in Antarctica dating from about 245 million years ago.
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