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4/30/2007
The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) at the University of Wisconsin and the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, in collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the Programma Nazionale di Richerche in Antartide (PNRA), the Italian Air Force (IAF) Meteorological Service, will hold the second annual Antarctic Meteorological Observation, Modeling, and Forecasting (AMOMF) Workshop in Rome, Italy from June 26-28, 2007.
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4/30/2007
Read dispatches and see pictures from an international team studying the physical oceanography of the Antarctic Peninsula and learning about the foraging ecology of crabeater and southern elephant seals.
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4/30/2007
From April to June 2007, a NOAA research team---including four Alaska Natives with extensive local and traditional knowledge of seals and sea ice--equipped seals with data-recorders to study the animals' diving behavior and movements.
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4/25/2007
NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft, the first mission dedicated to the exploration of mysterious ice clouds that dot the edge of space in Earth's polar regions, successfully launched on April 25.
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4/23/2007
Frequent climate fluctuations on the world’s southernmost continent have been so extreme over the past five million years that Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, a floating slab of ice the size of France, oscillated in size dramatically, and perhaps even disappeared for periods of time.
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4/20/2007
Residents at Palmer Station, a year-round U.S. research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, removed old debris from the sea floor near the station in late April, 2007, as a part of an annual Earth Day clean up.
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4/19/2007
The NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory will add a new location in Tiksi, Russia, joining five existing laboratories placed internationally along the Arctic rim. Tiksi will be an important component of the NOAA Arctic Atmospheric Observatory Program, closing a significant gap in vital Arctic atmospheric research.
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4/19/2007
The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing to list the Cook Inlet beluga whale population as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The number of beluga whales in Cook Inlet waters near Anchorage has dwindled to an estimated 302 animals and is at risk of going extinct within 100 years.
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4/19/2007
Remarks by Evan T. Bloom, deputy director for polar and scientific affairs, to the Conference on the United States, Climate Change and the Arctic Renewed American Interest in a Changing North.
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4/18/2007
Woods Hole has published an interactive map of its Arctic field expeditions, many of which are federally funded. A simple click brings up detailed information about nine different research cruises.
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