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12/7/2007
In 1957, the U.S. Weather Bureau, helped sponsor a young scientist to begin tracking carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere at two of the planet’s most remote and pristine sites: the South Pole and the summit of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.
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10/19/2007
By following the travels of tagged animals, scientists--including those at NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory--are finding that individual whales take divergent and circuitous routes to the austral summer feeding grounds of the Antarctic.
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10/16/2007
According to the Arctic Report Card 2007, overall warming of the Arctic system continued, though some elements are stabilizing or returning to climatological norms. These mixed tendencies show the sensitivity and complexity of the Arctic system.
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9/16/2007
More than two decades ago, Susan Solomon and her colleagues deciphered the chemistry of the Antarctic ozone hole. Today, NOAA continues to lead in this area, including producing 20 questions and answers for non-scientists about ozone depletion.
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7/29/2007
RUSALCA is a joint research initiative of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Russian Academy of Sciences. RUSALCA also is Russian for "mermaid."
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7/26/2007
NOAA’s Teacher at Sea program has unveiled its third in a series of four planned children’s books. The latest is about the experiences of teacher Linda Armwood aboard NOAA ship Fairweather
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6/25/2007
Right now, it's the middle of winter at the South Pole. Read the personal takes of two NOAA researchers on what it's like to conduct cutting-edge science while cut off from the rest of the world at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
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6/25/2007
The Alaska Sea Grant Program has published a full-color, 16-month calendar to mark IPY that examines the effects of climate change in Alaska.
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6/18/2007
In Greek mythology, “Nereus" was a diety who could tell the future, but who would not answer questions unless he was caught. To avoid capture, he would change his shape. A new submersible explorer called Nereus also is very much in the business of shape-shifting; it can either be tethered to it operators as an "ROV" or operate independently an an "AUV", a combination that makes it ideal for Polar work. Its development by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is supported by NSF, NOAA, and the U.S. Navy.
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5/4/2007
NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory image gallery has collections of photographs and illustrations of "pinnipeds," the scientific name for seals, sea lions, and walruses, and "ceteceans" or dolphins, porpoises and whales to non-scientists.
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