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12/14/2007
A University of Pennsylvania graduate student won $250,000 recently on the TV show "Jeopardy" simply by knowing what "IPY" stands for.
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12/12/2007
The hands-on science museum has given cameras to penguin biologists, glaciologists, cosmologists, geologists, and marine scientists working in Antarctica and the Arctic and asked them to document their adventures.
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12/10/2007
The fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is expected to draw more than 15,000 geophysicists from around the world. Read about Polar-related news released at the meeting.
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12/7/2007
Seth Davidson, a USGS hydrologic technician worked in Wyoming and Montana throughout his career. He is Antarctica assisting the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research project. Read his journals.
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12/7/2007
In 1957, the U.S. Weather Bureau, helped sponsor a young scientist to begin tracking carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere at two of the planet’s most remote and pristine sites: the South Pole and the summit of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.
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12/7/2007
This site, funded by NSF and produced by the team that creates the PBS public affairs program, features news and analysis of stories about the Polar regions.
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12/4/2007
Popular Science magazine has chosen the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, built and managed by NSF, as an exemplary engineering project.
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11/30/2007
On Nov. 26 at a forum sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, experts discussed the effects of global warming on conditions in the arctic. View a Web-based version of C-SPAN 2's coverage. Available only in Windows Media format.
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11/30/2007
Lita Albuquerque has installed exhibitions in various deserts worldwide. An exhibit at the Hentschel Art Gallery in Des Moines is a small-scale version of her project to map out 99 stars onto each of the polar ice caps.
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11/27/2007
Three federal agencies and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) today unveiled a uniquely detailed and scientifically-accurate satellite mosaic map of Antarctica.
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