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8/30/2007
Watch Mark Harris, ARMADA Project master teacher, describe his experiences in Antarctica. He worked with two NSF-funded teams to study crabeater seal foraging and icefish blood "anti-freeze."
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8/28/2007
The U.S. Geological Survey has released an assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the East Greenland Rift Basins Province, suggesting that there may be a large amount to be discovered.
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8/28/2007
What would large-scale ice loss on Greenland mean to the rest of the world? Waleed Abdalati, head of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Cryospheric Sciences Branch, says, "The potential effects are scary enough so that we better figure it out."
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8/26/2007
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced today that John Eichelberger, a renowned volcano expert from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks (UAF), will become program coordinator for the USGS Volcano Hazards Program.
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8/23/2007
The US Arctic Research Commission issues a statement in support of the recent decision by the National Science Foundation
(NSF) to take a major step in the management, acquisition, and
operation of an Alaska Region Research Vessel.
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8/23/2007
As the late summer sun sets in the Arctic, bands of wispy, luminescent clouds fill the sky. To the casual observer, they may simply be a curiosity, but to scientists, they could be a symptom of changing climate.
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8/23/2007
The U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC) issues this statement in
support of the recent decision by NSF to take a major step in the management, acquisition, and operation of a 236’ Alaska Region Research Vessel (ARRV).
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8/22/2007
The National Science Foundation awarded $2.5 million to fund the first phase of construction of the Alaska Region Research Vessel, an ice-capable vessel designed to support high-latitude research, that is expected to cost a total of $123 million.
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8/20/2007
For the first time in more than a century, scientists will visit Antarctica's Amundsen Sea this fall. Five UTSA researchers and a Texas high school science teacher will participate in the cruise.
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8/20/2007
Ice, ocean, and atmosphere interact to affect the health of the Arctic climate. At the heart of this system is the Beaufort Gyre, one of the planet's least-explored bodies of water.
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