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4/11/2007
Download the exclusive, high resolution USGS poster commemorating International Polar Year. (PDF - 52 MB)
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4/10/2007
For more than 30 years, Gerald Kooyman, a research physiologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has studied
adaptation in antarctic marine animals. In recent years he has focused on the effects of climate change on Emperor Penguins.
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4/4/2007
As part of an elaborate outreach program, the multi-national ANtarctic geological DRILLing project sent six teachers to Antarctica. They wrote blogs from the field and appear in video journals.
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4/4/2007
ANDRILL is a four-nation scientific collaboration that is drilling under the Ross Ice Shelf to recover a history of Antarctic environmental change it hopes will provide a picture of climate cycles over millions of years and help science to understand possible future changes.
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3/29/2007
Criss-crossing Antartica in a tractor train, International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition reserachers have taken ice cores representative of the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.
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3/27/2007
The National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program provides opportunities for scholars in the humanities to visit Antarctica or the Southern Ocean to obtain first-hand experience that will help create art to increase public awareness and understanding of the U.S. role on the southernmost continent.
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3/17/2007
Building a neutrino observatory a kilometer on a side under the ice sheet, excavating
a rare plesiosaur fossil, and a ice-shelf drilling project seeking millions of years of climate records were all discussed in a recent NPR “Science Friday” broadcast on Antarctic science.
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3/15/2007
University of Washington scientists, supported by several federal agencies, will play key IPY roles from the North Pole to Antarctica, in fields as diverse as oceanography and computer modeling. Their IPY contributions are highlighted in a Web slide show and other materials.
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3/15/2007
You can get a seal’s eye view of the relationships between predator and prey in Antarctica from scientist Lee Fuiman’s research. Fuiman, of the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, equips seals with cameras and data recorders to understand their behavior.
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3/14/2007
William Hammer, an NSF-funded researcher at Augustana College, discovered the remains of Cryolophosaurus ellioti in 1991, proving that dinosaurs lived on every continent. In a 2003 Webcast, he described the find and the beast.
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