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8/8/2008 University of Alaska Fairbanks to host Eighth Conference of Arctic Parliamentarians Aug 12-14 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. More

7/3/2008 Live Webcast July 8 of IPY Conference's Opening Ceremony from St. Petersburg, Russia A Webcast of the joint Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)IPY Conference opening ceremony was broadcast on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at http://www.arcticportal.org/. More

2/27/2008 University of Alaska Fairbanks Climate-Change Teleconference Scheduled Kenji Yoshikawa will discuss permafrost areas in Alaska most susceptible to degradation and how a school-based monitoring project is helping to understand these changes. Tuesday, March 4th at 10 a.m. (local time). More

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8/25/2008 Where was the Water on Mars? Brown Geologists Head to Iceland to Find Out Iceland, an island nation hugging the Arctic Circle, may share similarities with ancient Mars. So it’s a perfect place to figure out why different instruments on different Mars missions sometimes tell different stories. More

7/24/2008 NASA's THEMIS Satellites Discover What Triggers Eruptions of the Northern Lights Researchers have discovered that an explosion of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon powers substorms, sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the aurora borealis, called the Northern Lights. More

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Hearings & Testimony

8/19/2008 "Dear Antarctic Program Researcher" Letter Describes Projected Effects of Fuel Increases, Other Costs on Antarctic Research Budget This letter, in .pdf format, describes the projected effects on support for the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 Antarctic research seasons. The measures were discussed at the Aug. 12, 2008 National Science Board meeting. More

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