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11/24/2008
Middle-school science teacher Shakira Brown, a teacher at New York's Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy, spent several months working with scientists in Antarctica and communciating with students in the U.S.
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11/21/2008
For her scientific achievements, including pioneering research that helped explain the cause of the ozone hole, NOAA Senior Scientist Susan Solomon will receive the Grande Medaille from the Institute of France’s Academy of Sciences.
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11/20/2008
Scientists announced the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument high over Antarctica. NSF provided the Antarctic logistics for the mission.
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11/20/2008
MRO has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet.
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11/18/2008
Robin Bell, of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is the NSF-funded co-leader of multi-national expedition to explore the mysterious Gamburtsev Mountains. Follow her journey.
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11/18/2008
A USGS assessment estimates there are 85.4 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable gas from natural gas hydrates on the Alaskan North Slope. This would be enough to heat more than 100 million average homes for 10 years.
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11/14/2008
With help from a $488,000 NASA grant, the University of Alaska Museum of the North and scientists at the UAF Geophysical Institute are joining forces to bring the state's only digital portable planetarium to communities in rural Alaska.
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11/6/2008
A NASA-led team has used satellite data to make the most precise measurements to date of changes in the mass of mountain glaciers in the Gulf of Alaska, a region expected to be a significant contributor to global sea level rise.
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11/6/2008
In a November special issue of the journal Ecology, scientists report that if current patterns of change in the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans continue, alterations of ocean circulation could occur on a global scale.
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11/6/2008
The distribution of sunlight, rather than the size of North American ice sheets, is the key variable in changes in the North Atlantic deep-water formation during the last four glacial cycles.
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