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3/5/2008
The nation’s largest icebreaker, USCGC Healy, left its home port of Seattle on March 6 to begin six months of scientific deployments in the Arctic studying the Bering Sea ecosystem.
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3/5/2008
This image reveals a subtle sign of the far Southern Hemisphere's growing season: the yellowish-green tinge of some of the sea ice is probably a bloom of algae.
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2/29/2008
The collection of more than 20 illustrated essays addresses topics ranging from "why and how" scientists study Arctic climate change to the changes indigenous peoples are observing in the state of sea ice to "what's happening to polar bears."
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2/27/2008
The Lunar and Planetary Institute maintains a set of slides that discusses Mars; searching for Antarctic meteorites; ALH 84001, an Antarctic meteorite scientists claim contains fossilized Martian microbes; and exploration of Mars and the universe.
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2/27/2008
What started as a quick idea to spice up an IPY event developed into a full-length musical composition in celebration of polar science. Now you can download a ringtone based on "Polar Fanfare."
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2/25/2008
The animation illustrates how melt-water puddles on the Greenland ice sheet and drains through cracks to the surface below. This water lubricates underlying bedrock, causing the ice to flow faster toward the sea.
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2/20/2008
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has proclaimed Feb. 27, 2008 Polar Education and Research Day in the Sunflower State, citing the University of Kansas’ efforts to educate students and the public about the polar regions.
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2/19/2008
In this October 2007 podcast produced for Earth Science Week, USGS scientist Richie Williams talks about the agency's new satellite imagery of Antarctica as well as what's going on with ice on the southernmost continent.
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2/13/2008
A new University of Buffalo study documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice-sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based.
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2/11/2008
Capt. Lawson Brigham, who sailed to the polar limits of the global ocean from Antarctica to the North Pole, signed the American Geographical Society's Fliers' and Explorers' Globe on Feb. 12, 2008.
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