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7/12/2011
Norm Augustine, the former chair of the National Academy of Engineering, will lead an upcoming strategic review of U.S. science-support operations on the continent of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean the White House and NSF have announced.
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7/5/2011
Warming of the ocean's subsurface layers will melt underwater portions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets faster than previously thought, according to new University of Arizona-led research.
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6/29/2011
A painstaking examination by research at Rice and Louisiana State univerities reveals that the last remnant of Antarctic vegetation existed in a tundra landscape on the continent's northern peninsula about 12 million years ago.
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6/26/2011
Stronger ocean currents beneath West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting of the glacier as a whole.
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6/1/2011
Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high-resolution topographic map of the Aurora Subglacial Basin, an immense ice-buried lowland in East Antarctica larger than Texas.
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4/15/2011
Researchers and flight crew arrived in Thule, Greenland this week for the start of NASA's 2011 Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in Arctic polar ice.
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2/25/2011
Newly excavated remains found at the Xaasaa Na' archaeological site near the Tanana River in central Alaska may belong to one of the earliest inhabitants of North America.
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11/5/2010
Melt water flowing through ice sheets via crevasses, fractures and large drains called moulins can carry warmth into ice sheet. interiors, greatly accelerating the response of an ice sheet to climate change
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10/22/2010
Scientists returned this week to the Southern Hemisphere where NASA's Operation IceBridge mission is set to begin its second year of airborne surveys over Antarctica. The mission monitors the region's changing sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers.
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10/6/2010
The United States has joined other Arctic Coastal States in a mutual effort to develop nautical charts that will improve the safety of mariners transiting the Arctic.
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