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12/22/2009
Carin Ashjian, an NSF-supported biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, narrates a slideshow about Arctic research aboard the U.S Coast Guard icebreaker Healy.
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12/17/2009
A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, producing spectacular outbursts of light.
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11/5/2009
Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution talk about the creatures that make up the base of the Antarctic food chain, their importance in the global ecosystem and what draws people to become scientists.
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10/8/2009
Starting in November, NASA will fly missions in a DC-8--a 157-foot-long airborne laboratory--to study to study changes to Antarctica's sea ice, ice sheets, and glaciers as part of the agency's Operation Ice Bridge.
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9/9/2009
An innovative unmanned aircraft conceived and built at the NSF-funded Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets recently passed its first flight test, a crucial step toward gathering better data at slower speeds and lower altitudes over icy terrain.
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5/29/2009
The USGS and the British Antarctic Survey have published a report and accompanying map on changes brought about by the collapse of Anarctica's Larsen and Wordie ice shelves. Ice. Note: the map may be downloaded as a .pdf, but is a large file.
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4/28/2009
An intelligent, ocean-going glider has spent more than five months on a record-breaking deployment to sample the icy waters off western Greenland.
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4/14/2009
Tom Wagner, NASA cryosphere program scientist, discusses the various ways that sea ice is important; from regulating global temperatures to restricting--or facilitating--global commerce. He also discusses the significance of IPY.
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4/4/2009
The Bering Sea is a wildly productive ecosystem, yielding millions of pounds of fish and crab each year. Is climate change affecting the Bering Sea? How? See daily pictures and read reports from researchers seeking answers to those questions.
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4/1/2009
Researchers at two massive, sophisticated National Science Foundation-funded instruments located at the South Pole will be featured in a global Webcast on April 3 and 4 as part of the International Year of Astronomy.
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