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9/5/2007
Research to test global ice volume approximately 41.6 million years ago shows that ice caps, if they existed at all, would have been small and easily accommodated on Antarctica, contradicting assertions that Earth was heavily glaciated.
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9/5/2007
Brent Christner, assistant professor of biological sciences, has spent a great deal of time in Antarctica, researching whether life can exist beneath the continent's ice sheets.
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9/4/2007
Produced with extensive support and cooperation from the National Science Foundation, which manages the U.S. Antarctic Program, "The South Pole Project" premiered this week on the National Geographic Channel. View a clip online.
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9/4/2007
Researchers will use the grant to study how Yup’ik and Chukchi communities in remote areas of western Alaska and the Russian Far East adapt to changes subsistence salmon resources.
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9/3/2007
A research roundtable at this Washington D.C. meeting--the third such conference--will focus on bilateral cooperation between China and the U.S. in the Arctic and Antarctic. Karl A. Erb, who heads NSF's Office of Polar programs, will participate.
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9/2/2007
The USGS is conducting a geologically based assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Arctic--the first ever conducted in the public domain--starting in Greenland. Final results are expected in the summer of 2008.
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8/31/2007
Several leading U.S. scientists will brief the media about the latest earth-science research in Antartica. The briefing will be Webcast live at 6:30 p.m. Eastern on Aug. 31 here: http://www.it.id.ucsb.edu/isaes.mov
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8/31/2007
Biologists and Native hunters in the Alaskan village of Kotzebue, funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, are jointly developing a management strategy for bearded seal habitat.
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8/31/2007
Each year across North America spring is arriving earlier. While these adaptations to change may benefit individuals, they may also disrupt ecological relationships, says William R. Dawson, comparative physiologist from the University of Michigan.
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8/30/2007
Researchers with the Sea Ice Mass Balance in the Antarctic (SIMBA) research cruise are heading to Antarctica to measure sea ice--which floats on the ocean--to understand the response of sea ice to climate shifts.
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