Slide title: Implements Recommendations of Blue Ribbon Panel

Slide images: Photo at the South Pole of the Yeti robot designed to make over-ice travel safer by using radar to search for crevasses (left); cover of the NSF response to the U.S. Antarctic Program Blue Ribbon Panel report, More and Better Science in Antarctica through Increased Logistical Effectiveness (center); photo of three wind turbines in Antarctica (right)

Image credits: James Lever, U.S. Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (left); cover art by Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation (center); Mike Casey, National Science Foundation (right)