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3/18/2008
Join PolarTREC teacher Craig Kasemodel and scientists from the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy and the Bering Sea Ecosystem Change research cruise. Registration is required.
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3/17/2008
NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Acoustics Project’s field research in Antarctica in 2005-06 resulted in new discoveries about the region's seismic activity. View a video by Oregon Public Television.
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3/17/2008
As part of National Public Radio's "Climate Connections" series, reporter Daniel Zwerdling and producer Peter Breslow traveled to Antarctica under the auspices of the National Science Foundation's media visitors program. Read their reports.
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3/14/2008
The NOAA Central Library in Silver Spring is exhibiting some of its polar collection until March 2009, the official end of IPY. The catalogue and a searchable historical photo archive is available online.
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3/10/2008
Rob Reves-Sohn, a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution geophysicist, drew initial inspiration for a 2007 Arctic research cruise that sent robots under the ice from his infant daughter's bath toys.
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3/10/2008
On March 12, 2008, PolarTREC (Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating in the Arctic and Antarctic)--a NSF-funded program of ARCUS--will host a Live from IPY event as part of the International Polar Day.
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3/10/2008
Read dispatches from NASA-, NOAA-, and NSF-funded researchers at sea about doing science while living daily life in one of the Earth's most extreme environments. So what exactly is the "House of Pain" or the "Oracle of Delta"?
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3/10/2008
Ever wonder how many caribou live in the U.S. Fish & Wildife Service-managed Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? Or how the Dall Sheep are doing? Or how the musk oxen are getting on? It's all in the refuge's Summary of 2007 Survey Activities.
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3/10/2008
A researcher with the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, Bariteau is sending home weekly dispatches From the Southern Ocean. He also recorded a video segment before he left about his preparations for the Antarctic.
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3/8/2008
Sea ice, which is constantly thickening and thinning, plays an important role in the Earth's climate. Scientist Dave Douglas discusses a modeling approach to estimate sea-ice thickness based entirely on observations of historical trends.
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