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11/30/2007
On Nov. 26 at a forum sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, experts discussed the effects of global warming on conditions in the arctic. View a Web-based version of C-SPAN 2's coverage. Available only in Windows Media format.
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11/30/2007
Three scientists--Jim Bockheim, an expert on Antarctica's Mars-like soils; Christine Ribic, an Adelie penguin researcher; and Charles Bentley, a geologist who is celebrating his 50th anniversary as an Antarctic scientist--will deploy.
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11/29/2007
The drillers of the Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program recently passed the 1,000-meter mark in rock core pulled from beneath the sea floor in McMurdo Sound, with a remarkable recovery rate of more than 98 percent.
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11/27/2007
A team of researchers has completed a map of Antarctica that is expected to revolutionize research of the continent's frozen landscape.
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11/26/2007
The polar regions are changing faster than any other part of our planet. Find out why when Robin Bell, chair of the U.S. National Committee for the International Polar Year, speaks at the Marion Koshland Science Museum on Nov. 28.
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11/16/2007
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will use the Antarctica's frigid, harsh, isolated landscape to test a new architecture for astronaut housing on the moon.
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11/13/2007
A research team has detected a reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation. The results suggest not all the changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of global warming.
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11/9/2007
Peter Larsen, a researcher with UAF's Institute for Social and Economic Research, will discuss the future costs of infrastructure replacement in Alaska due to climate change at 10 a.m., local time, Tuesday, Nov. 13.
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11/4/2007
Scientists from Clemson University and the University of Montana are diving frigid, ice-covered McMurdo Sound to understand how creatures of the Southern Ocean have uniquely adapted to cold, yet oxygen-rich water.
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11/3/2007
Scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have devised a way to make continuous measurements of the ocean beneath the Arctic ice and get back data in real time. They call it the ice-tethered profiler, or ITP.
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