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12/9/2008
The U.S. Air Force completed the first C-17 airdrop to a field camp in Antarctica's Gamburtsev Mountains Nov. 26. Thirty bundles of fuel and other supplies were delivered to a scientific camp in one of the most remote locations on earth.
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11/27/2008
It won't help the Titanic, but a newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve off from their parent ice sheets, according to a team of Penn State researchers.
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11/25/2008
Residents of Venetie, Alaska, week welcomed ten researchers from the UAF Bonanza Creek LTER program for an open discussion about climate change and its implications for rural villages and their subsistence livelihoods.
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11/24/2008
Middle-school science teacher Shakira Brown, a teacher at New York's Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy, spent several months working with scientists in Antarctica and communciating with students in the U.S.
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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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11/20/2008
Scientists announced the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument high over Antarctica. NSF provided the Antarctic logistics for the mission.
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11/20/2008
MRO has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet.
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11/18/2008
Robin Bell, of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is the NSF-funded co-leader of multi-national expedition to explore the mysterious Gamburtsev Mountains. Follow her journey.
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11/18/2008
A USGS assessment estimates there are 85.4 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable gas from natural gas hydrates on the Alaskan North Slope. This would be enough to heat more than 100 million average homes for 10 years.
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11/14/2008
With help from a $488,000 NASA grant, the University of Alaska Museum of the North and scientists at the UAF Geophysical Institute are joining forces to bring the state's only digital portable planetarium to communities in rural Alaska.
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