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12/16/2008
The Yup’ik people have no word for science yet their tools were so well designed that they allowed the Yupiit to live in a land no one else would inhabit. An on-line version of the NSF-funded exhibit documents the depth and scope of Yupiit knowledge.
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12/8/2008
This Web site serves as a gateway to Arctic scientific research at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The site includes clips of polar bears and walrus taken during research cruises.
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12/1/2008
The slide show is one of several on-line activites for children on the park's Web site.
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11/28/2008
The lecture was given at the University of Delaware on Nov. 14 by Richard Alley, a geoscientist at Penn State, as one of the university's William S. Carlson IPY events. The lectures honor a former university president and polar researcher.
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11/18/2008
Meredith Vieira interviews NSF-funded researcher Stacy Kim, who uses custom-built robots to explore the icy waters of McMurdo Sound. See the interview and underwater footage.
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11/3/2008
A team of divers representing the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation as well as NOAA and EPA made 440 dives over two summers, in the process discovering 20 new species of marine organisms.
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10/27/2008
On Oct. 30, from 5-6:30 p.m., Robert McCracken Peck, curator of art and artifacts and senior fellow at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, discusses how Arctic enthusiasm was manifested in everyday items of 19th century material culture.
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10/7/2008
A NOVA documentary debuting on Oct. 7 reveals that dinosaurs survived and thrived in the harsh environments of the north and south polar regions. The program follows paleontologists unearthing 70 million-year-old fossils from the Alaskan tundra.
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10/3/2008
When explorer Elisha Kent Kane died in 1857, his was the largest funeral, at that time, in American history. Author Michael Robinson discussed the imprint of early Arctic explorers on the American psyche as part of the university's IPY events series.
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9/22/2008
From a windy, isolated camp in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, three scientists explore how the waterless, lifeless, volcanic terrain formed and evolved. Read the story and watch the video.
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