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2/6/2008
WGBH television's Teachers' Domain has added a Polar Sciences Special Collection to its Web site. The collection is funded by NSF and offers 20 new resources about the Polar regions, and a new feature; a student activity. Registration required.
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2/4/2008
A science team representing six institutions, including Texas A&M University, has established a new, robotic astronomical observatory called PLATeau Observatory, or PLATO, at Dome Argus, the highest point of the Antarctic Plateau.
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1/26/2008
Using USGS data, a research team, including scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Alaska, has determined that climate change is dramatically reducing the bears’ survival and reproductive rates.
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1/24/2008
NSF-funded researchers have closed out the inaugural season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere over the last 100,000 years.
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1/23/2008
Educational touch-screen kiosks developed by the Department of Energy provide information about Arctic climate change from both a scientific and traditional perspective.
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1/21/2008
The signing of a historic globe kicked off the University of Delaware's “William S. Carlson International Polar Year Events,” a series of public lectures, receptions, research seminars, art exhibits, and film showings.
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1/16/2008
A new study indicates meltwater periodically overwhelms the interior drainpipes of Alaska's Kennicott Glacier, causing it to lurch forward, similar to processes that may help explain the acceleration of glaciers observed recently in Greenland.
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1/16/2008
The staff at the San Francisco-based science museum will talk live to scientists who operate the 280-ton South Pole Telescope and to researchers who will spend the six-month winter at the Pole. Live at 8 a.m. Pacific; the Webcast will be archived.
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1/12/2008
NSF and NASA are jointly testing a new architecture for astronaut housing on the moon by erecting a prototype structure at NSF's McMurdo Station. If the design stands up Antarctic conditions, it could also be used in the future by polar scientists.
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1/9/2008
The San Francisco-based "hands-on" science museum will talk live to NASA scientists in Antarctica about balloon research in the latest in a series of IPY-related Webcasts. Watch the archived Webcast.
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