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4/4/2007
A North Pole webcam deployed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory has kept an eye on events there since April 2002, tracking snow cover, weather conditions and the annual deployment of the North Pole Environmental Observatory.
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4/4/2007
ANDRILL is a four-nation scientific collaboration that is drilling under the Ross Ice Shelf to recover a history of Antarctic environmental change it hopes will provide a picture of climate cycles over millions of years and help science to understand possible future changes.
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4/4/2007
Great earthquakes make the earth ring like a bell after being struck. Five miles from the South Pole, 1000 feet beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, seismometers record the quietest vibrations on the Earth, up to four times quieter than ever previously observed
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4/4/2007
A team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will visit the North Pole in April to tell the story of how science is done at the ends of the Earth. This will be the first of four such expeditions.
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4/2/2007
The 75-foot (22.8 meter) tall, 280-ton (254 metric ton) South Pole Telescope is the largest astronomy instrument ever deployed at the South Pole. The recently completed SPT will give astronomers a powerful new tool to explore the mysterious force called dark energy.
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4/2/2007
Imagine trying to observe particles so small and scarce that a detector a cubic kilometer in area installed under the Antarctic ice sheet is needed. Scientists have not only imagined it, they are building it.
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3/30/2007
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses the Atmospheric Research Observatory (ARO) at the National Science Foundation’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to support a long-term research program carried out by NOAA’s Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory. The South Pole carbon-dioxide record, which is part of that effort, dates back to the 1957 International Geophysical Year, precursor to IPY.
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3/30/2007
From August 2006 to March 2007, NOAA-funded scientists from the University of Washington working with the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources equipped narwhals with satellite-linked instruments to track whale movements, diving behavior, and ocean temperature structure in Baffin Bay. Narwhals have never previously been observed or studied in their winter habitat in central Baffin Bay.
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3/29/2007
Criss-crossing Antartica in a tractor train, International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition reserachers have taken ice cores representative of the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.
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