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10/1/2007
When the NSF-funded Antarctic Geological Drilling Program (ANDRILL) begins this month, scientists will look for a "Rosetta Stone" that will tie together decades of paleoclimate research in Antarctica and the rest of the world.
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10/1/2007
Arctic sea ice during the 2007 melt season plummeted to the lowest levels since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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10/1/2007
A new NASA-led study found a 23-percent loss in the extent of the Arctic's thick, year-round sea ice cover during the past two winters.
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9/27/2007
University of Alaska Museum of the North staff, students and volunteers collected more than 8,000 teeth and bones from the area, the most productive dinosaur-bearing area in the world's polar regions.
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9/27/2007
The university's IPY outreach office has launched its K-12 educator resource guide, which aims to help teachers integrate IPY into their lessons. The guide was mailed to every school in Alaska.
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9/25/2007
This NSF-supported conference examines the impetus for the 1882-83 and 1932-33 polar years and the International Geophysical Year and their impacts upon science, society and culture.
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9/25/2007
Eight images from Joan Myers' "Wondrous Cold Antarctic" series are currently on exhibit at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, Colo. Myers was a 2002 participant in NSF's Antarctic Artists & Writers Program.
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9/25/2007
Polar History: Perspectives on Globalization in the Geosciences will feature C. Stewart Gillmor, Weslyan University; Fae Korsmo, NSF; F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California Irvine; and Stephen J. Pyne, Arizona State University.
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9/25/2007
The amount of snow that has melted this year over Greenland could cover the surface size of the U.S. more than twice.
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9/25/2007
A NASA P-3 Orion aircraft with a compliment of scientists and support personnel has spent the past several weeks in Greenland observing the state of one the world's largest ice sheets.
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