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4/13/2007
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Polar Rock Repository at the Byrd Polar Research Center houses Arctic and Antarctic collections. The repository also lends to teachers "rock boxes" containing samples of polar rocks and fossils and teaching guides aligned with national curriculum standards.
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4/11/2007
Download the exclusive, high resolution USGS poster commemorating International Polar Year. (PDF - 52 MB)
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4/10/2007
The East Antarctic ice sheet looms large in the global climate system, yet relatively little is known about its climate variability or the contribution it makes to sea-level changes. Two overland traverses: one from Norway's Troll Station to the U.S. South Pole station in 2007-2008; and a return trip by a different route in 2008-2009 will investigate climate change in the region.
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4/10/2007
For more than 30 years, Gerald Kooyman, a research physiologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has studied
adaptation in antarctic marine animals. In recent years he has focused on the effects of climate change on Emperor Penguins.
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4/9/2007
"Teaching About the Cryosphere" is a two-week teacher workshop on how scientists evaluate evidence of climate change. It will focus on research conducted at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center and by researchers at the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS). The workshop is supported by CReSIS and the National science Foundation.
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4/6/2007
Because liquid water is a key prerequisite for life, scientists soon began to speculate on the existence of life on Mars. However, before scientists can hypothesize about life on Mars, they must first explain how liquid water can exist in such a cold, dry place. To search for clues, researchers traveled to the most Mars-like conditions on Earth.
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4/5/2007
The IPY Youth Steering Committee (YSC) aims to ensure that youth are fully involved IPY. The Polar Network enables young researchers and global youth to communicate and collaborate. Jenny Baeseman, jbaesema@kent.edu, is the U.S. contact.
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4/4/2007
As part of an elaborate outreach program, the multi-national ANtarctic geological DRILLing project sent six teachers to Antarctica. They wrote blogs from the field and appear in video journals.
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4/4/2007
ANDRILL is a four-nation scientific collaboration that is drilling under the Ross Ice Shelf to recover a history of Antarctic environmental change it hopes will provide a picture of climate cycles over millions of years and help science to understand possible future changes.
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4/4/2007
An ice core can contain detailed climate records extending back hundreds of thousands of years. Funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Ice Core Laboratory stores, curates, and studies these cores.
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