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3/16/2009
The Maryland Science Center in Baltimore will be the focal point of a range of public events April 4 and 5 that highlight federally funded Arctic and Antarctic research programs.
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2/1/2009
Finding a fossilized, tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle in the Canadian Arctic strongly suggests that animals migrated from Asia to North America directly across a freshwater sea floating atop the warm, salty Arctic Ocean.
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1/31/2009
The first-ever study estimates that there are 85.4 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable gas from natural gas hydrates on Alaska's North Slope. A transcript of the roughly nine-minute segment is provided.
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1/12/2009
In this podcast from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, learn about the health challenges facing people in the Arctic and how research and the IPY address them. A transcript is also provided.
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1/7/2009
NSF's High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER) will cover more than 24,000 miles in a series of five flights over three years to sample the atmosphere.
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1/6/2009
"Watching the drill going down the hole and then coming up to deliver ice to the core handlers is like a flawlessly executed ballet dance with everyone and every part of the system working in concert." -- Julie Palais, NSF glaciology program officer.
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12/31/2008
Capturing the high drama and stark beauty of historic polar expeditions, To the Ends of the Earth, Painting the Polar Landscape presents more than 50 works by prominent artist-explorers--all rarely shown in a single exhibition.
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12/24/2008
In this 2007 dispatch, Kathryn Schaffer Miknaitis, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago, describes the artificial tree erected by iron workers at Amundsen-Scott South Pole station with recycled materials.
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12/22/2008
Focusing on Alaskan glaciers, the site examines one aspect of the global climate issue—the relationship between glaciers and climate. It incudes a PowerPoint presentation that "morphs" images from Kenai Fjords National Park to show change over time.
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12/18/2008
The polar ice caps have been shrinking in summer and expanding in winter for millions of years. But in the past 30 years, the Arctic sea ice at the end of each summer's melt has gotten steadily smaller. See an animation and read transcript.
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