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8/13/2008
"The Arctic is strategically important to the United States. The state of Alaska is a valued part of our national heritage..." A review of federal Arctic Policy.
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8/13/2008
President George W. Bush has named University of Alaska Fairbanks Vice Chancellor for Research Virgil "Buck" Sharpton as one of three new members of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.
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8/12/2008
Scientists have linked a dramatic year-to-year temperature swings and a century-long warming trend across West Antarctica to conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
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8/11/2008
The U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Task Force, chaired by the State Department, plans two Arctic cruises this summer. The cruises are part of an interagency effort to collect data about the continental shelf and oceanic basins in the Arctic.
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8/8/2008
The Ecological Society of America presented the award to F. Stuart "Terry" Chapin III of the Institute of Arctic Biology for a paper on policy strategies to sustain Alaskan forests in the face of climate change. NSF and USDA funded the work.
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8/8/2008
The biennial conference is organized in cooperation with the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region. The U.S. is host to the 2008 conference.
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8/6/2008
NSF's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program awarded roughly $3 million to the Dickey Center for International Understanding to support development of a doctoral program that focuses on rapid environmental change.
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8/6/2008
Prompted by reports of three vessels becoming stuck in ice off Alaska, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, called on the administration to issue its long-awaited Arctic Policy update and reiterated her call for construction of more U.S. icebreakers.
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8/4/2008
“With the click of a mouse, scientists, government officials and land managers will be able to see the changes in the earth’s landscape at any point in the past three and a half decades,” Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne says.
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8/4/2008
Scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra--in the form of fossilized plants and insects--on the interior of the southernmost continent before temperatures began to drop millions of years ago.
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