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6/7/2010
The NOAA research vessel Thomas G. Thompson is at sea carrying scientists from a multitude of disciplines to measure ocean conditions and food web productivity on the eastern Bering Sea shelf.
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5/19/2010
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA has developed an Arctic strategic plan and vision that will be available for public comment through June 10.
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3/29/2010
For the past 50 years, scientists have measured levels of carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere at the South Pole, creating the longest such record in existence. Read about monitoring global climate at the end of the Earth.
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3/16/2010
NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory has launched a new Web site to help those interested in the Arctic learn more about the long-term effects of the loss of Arctic summer sea ice.
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10/22/2009
Despite the fact that summer 2009 had more sea ice than in 2007 or 2008, scientists are seeing drastic changes in the region from just five years ago and at rates faster than anticipated, according to NOAA's "Arctic Report Card."
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10/20/2009
Christine Hedge, a 7th-grade science teacher who spent six weeks in the Arctic Ocean on board the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, discovered an underwater mountain.
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10/16/2009
The National/Naval Ice Center (NIC) has concluded that the 2009 sea ice minimum, which occurred between Sept. 16 and 23, is the third lowest since 1979.
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5/20/2009
A team of NOAA scientists has recorded the distinctive calls of endangered North Atlantic right whales in an area where it was believed that the historic resident population was hunted to extinction in the early 20th century.
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11/21/2008
For her scientific achievements, including pioneering research that helped explain the cause of the ozone hole, NOAA Senior Scientist Susan Solomon will receive the Grande Medaille from the Institute of France’s Academy of Sciences.
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10/16/2008
Temperature increases, a near-record loss of summer sea ice, and a melting of surface ice in Greenland are among some of the evidence of continued warming in the Arctic, according to a report issued by NOAA and its partners.
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