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11/16/2011
The National Science Foundation has awarded $16.3 million to the University of Alaska Fairbanks in support of the Toolik Field Station, a major site for national and international research in the North American Arctic since 1975.
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11/16/2011
Researchers with the IPY centerpiece AGAP project may have at last answered a 50 year-old conundrum. They may now know how Antarctica's Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains were formed, a question scientists have pondered since 1958.
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11/9/2011
In an IPY project funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, researchers will helicopter onto the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, to determine how much heat ocean currents deliver to the underside and how that may accelerate melting.
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9/15/2011
Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its lowest extent for the year. The minimum ice extent was the second lowest in the satellite record, after 2007, and continues the decadal trend of rapidly decreasing summer sea ice.
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9/13/2011
In USGS-coordinated interviews, Yup'ik hunters and elders expressed concerns ranging from safety, such as unpredictable weather patterns and dangerous ice conditions, to changes in plants and animals as well as decreased availability of firewood.
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8/31/2011
On behalf of NSF and the U.S. Arctic researchers it supports, I wish to express our collective sadness at the death of Martin ("Marty") Bergmann, director of Canada's Polar Continental Shelf Program and a leading light in Arctic science.
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8/22/2011
NOAA, Shell Exploration & Production, ConocoPhillips, and Statoil USA E&P Inc. have agreed to share a number of scientific data sets, including weather and ocean observations, biological information, and sea-ice and sea-floor mapping studies.
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7/12/2011
Norm Augustine, the former chair of the National Academy of Engineering, will lead an upcoming strategic review of U.S. science-support operations on the continent of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean the White House and NSF have announced.
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7/5/2011
Warming of the ocean's subsurface layers will melt underwater portions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets faster than previously thought, according to new University of Arizona-led research.
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6/29/2011
A painstaking examination by research at Rice and Louisiana State univerities reveals that the last remnant of Antarctic vegetation existed in a tundra landscape on the continent's northern peninsula about 12 million years ago.
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