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2/20/2008
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has proclaimed Feb. 27, 2008 Polar Education and Research Day in the Sunflower State, citing the University of Kansas’ efforts to educate students and the public about the polar regions.
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2/19/2008
In this October 2007 podcast produced for Earth Science Week, USGS scientist Richie Williams talks about the agency's new satellite imagery of Antarctica as well as what's going on with ice on the southernmost continent.
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2/13/2008
A new University of Buffalo study documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice-sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based.
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2/11/2008
Capt. Lawson Brigham, who sailed to the polar limits of the global ocean from Antarctica to the North Pole, signed the American Geographical Society's Fliers' and Explorers' Globe on Feb. 12, 2008.
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2/6/2008
WGBH television's Teachers' Domain has added a Polar Sciences Special Collection to its Web site. The collection is funded by NSF and offers 20 new resources about the Polar regions, and a new feature; a student activity. Registration required.
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2/4/2008
A science team representing six institutions, including Texas A&M University, has established a new, robotic astronomical observatory called PLATeau Observatory, or PLATO, at Dome Argus, the highest point of the Antarctic Plateau.
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1/26/2008
Using USGS data, a research team, including scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Alaska, has determined that climate change is dramatically reducing the bears’ survival and reproductive rates.
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1/24/2008
NSF-funded researchers have closed out the inaugural season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere over the last 100,000 years.
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1/23/2008
Educational touch-screen kiosks developed by the Department of Energy provide information about Arctic climate change from both a scientific and traditional perspective.
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1/21/2008
The signing of a historic globe kicked off the University of Delaware's “William S. Carlson International Polar Year Events,” a series of public lectures, receptions, research seminars, art exhibits, and film showings.
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