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4/16/2007
NOAA and NASA have announced a plan to restore a key climate sensor—designed to give climate researchers a more precise depiction of the structure of the Earth's ozone layer—to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project.
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4/11/2007
NASA is preparing to launch the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft, the first mission dedicated to exploration of mysterious ice clouds that dot the edge of space in Earth's polar regions. The first opportunity for launch is on Wednesday, April 25 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
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4/10/2007
A polar science symposium held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. in early May 2007 was envisioned as an inaugural U.S. contribution to IPY.
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4/10/2007
The East Antarctic ice sheet looms large in the global climate system, yet relatively little is known about its climate variability or the contribution it makes to sea-level changes. Two overland traverses: one from Norway's Troll Station to the U.S. South Pole station in 2007-2008; and a return trip by a different route in 2008-2009 will investigate climate change in the region.
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4/9/2007
"Teaching About the Cryosphere" is a two-week teacher workshop on how scientists evaluate evidence of climate change. It will focus on research conducted at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center and by researchers at the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS). The workshop is supported by CReSIS and the National science Foundation.
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4/9/2007
Igor Krupnik and Bill Fitzhugh, curators from the Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Studies Center, discussed how accelerated climate change is affecting the Arctic at a public lecture in Washington D.C. on Friday, April 13. The men curated the exhibit “A Friend Acting Strangely.”
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4/5/2007
Five Americans and three Canadians will snowmobile from Circle, Alaska to Baker Lake, Canada during March and April, 2007, following the Arctic Circle. They will talk
to residents and make the first set of comprehensive snow measurements across the “Barrenlands,” which will be used to decide how to employ satellites to monitor the snow cover. The ultimate goal is understand the nature of Arctic change, both natural and in human populations.
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4/5/2007
Every spring since 2000, the National Science Foundation has supported expeditions to the North Pole to take the pulse of the Arctic Ocean and learn how the world's northernmost sea helps regulate climate, giving the U.S. a scientific presence at both Poles.
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