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12/28/2007
Researchers with the NSF-funded portion of the international, bi-polar POLENET project are deploying GPS units and seismic sensors across Antarctica to learn how the continent's ice sheets are changing. Read their dispatches "live from the ice."
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12/22/2007
An Ohio State University researcher was aboard an aircraft that crashed in Antarctica earlier this week. All passengers and crew survived the failed takeoff from a field camp on the southernmost continent, according to NSF.
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12/21/2007
A valuable contribution to the Antarctic climate record was obtained earlier this month when the science party drilled 90 meters of ice core, providing information about climate variations reaching back 1000 years. Read dispatches from the field.
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12/17/2007
NSF-funded paleontologists working at 14,000 feet near Antarctica's Beardmore Glacier uncovered an unknown type of dinosaur. The massive plant-eater, named Glacialisaurus hammeri, lived about 190 million years ago.
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12/14/2007
A University of Pennsylvania graduate student won $250,000 recently on the TV show "Jeopardy" simply by knowing what "IPY" stands for.
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12/12/2007
The hands-on science museum has given cameras to penguin biologists, glaciologists, cosmologists, geologists, and marine scientists working in Antarctica and the Arctic and asked them to document their adventures.
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12/10/2007
The fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is expected to draw more than 15,000 geophysicists from around the world. Read about Polar-related news released at the meeting.
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12/7/2007
Seth Davidson, a USGS hydrologic technician worked in Wyoming and Montana throughout his career. He is Antarctica assisting the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research project. Read his journals.
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12/7/2007
In 1957, the U.S. Weather Bureau, helped sponsor a young scientist to begin tracking carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere at two of the planet’s most remote and pristine sites: the South Pole and the summit of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.
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12/7/2007
This site, funded by NSF and produced by the team that creates the PBS public affairs program, features news and analysis of stories about the Polar regions.
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