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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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1/17/2008
Get the cold, hard facts about setting up an inflatable lunar habitat in Antarctica straight from the frozen fingers of Larry Toups, habitat lead for NASA's Constellation Program Lunar Surface Systems Office.
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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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1/14/2008
The Ulysses spacecraft made a rare flyby of the sun's north pole on Jan. 14, 2008. Ulysses is the only spacecraft able to sample winds at the sun's poles, which are difficult to study from Earth.
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1/11/2008
On January 12, 2008, Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky participated in the dedication of new state-of-the-art scientific facilities operated by the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) at the South Pole.
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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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1/8/2008
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expects within the next month to reach a final decision on a proposal to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
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1/7/2008
New York City's American Museum of Natural History will host a family oriented International Polar Weekend on Feb. 2 and 3, 2008. The museum, Columbia University, Barnard College, the Explorers Club, and Wings WorldQuest are sponsors.
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1/5/2008
UAF's Marine Advisory Program and Northwest Campus are presenting a speaker series through April 29 in Nome, Alaska on topics ranging from sea-ice monitoring to Eskimo languages.
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1/4/2008
The meeting--Feb. 11-15--will include several sessions on climate change, including one which will feature presentations by University of Alaska post-doctoral students who are conducting studies on Arctic change in the IPY context.
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