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3/10/2008
Read dispatches from NASA-, NOAA-, and NSF-funded researchers at sea about doing science while living daily life in one of the Earth's most extreme environments. So what exactly is the "House of Pain" or the "Oracle of Delta"?
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3/10/2008
Ever wonder how many caribou live in the U.S. Fish & Wildife Service-managed Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? Or how the Dall Sheep are doing? Or how the musk oxen are getting on? It's all in the refuge's Summary of 2007 Survey Activities.
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3/10/2008
A researcher with the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, Bariteau is sending home weekly dispatches From the Southern Ocean. He also recorded a video segment before he left about his preparations for the Antarctic.
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3/8/2008
Sea ice, which is constantly thickening and thinning, plays an important role in the Earth's climate. Scientist Dave Douglas discusses a modeling approach to estimate sea-ice thickness based entirely on observations of historical trends.
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3/5/2008
The nation’s largest icebreaker, USCGC Healy, left its home port of Seattle on March 6 to begin six months of scientific deployments in the Arctic studying the Bering Sea ecosystem.
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3/5/2008
This image reveals a subtle sign of the far Southern Hemisphere's growing season: the yellowish-green tinge of some of the sea ice is probably a bloom of algae.
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2/29/2008
The collection of more than 20 illustrated essays addresses topics ranging from "why and how" scientists study Arctic climate change to the changes indigenous peoples are observing in the state of sea ice to "what's happening to polar bears."
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2/27/2008
The Lunar and Planetary Institute maintains a set of slides that discusses Mars; searching for Antarctic meteorites; ALH 84001, an Antarctic meteorite scientists claim contains fossilized Martian microbes; and exploration of Mars and the universe.
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2/27/2008
What started as a quick idea to spice up an IPY event developed into a full-length musical composition in celebration of polar science. Now you can download a ringtone based on "Polar Fanfare."
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2/25/2008
The animation illustrates how melt-water puddles on the Greenland ice sheet and drains through cracks to the surface below. This water lubricates underlying bedrock, causing the ice to flow faster toward the sea.
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