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2/19/2008
The Alaska Statewide High School Science Symposium will take place on March 1 and 2, 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska. This year’s conference theme is IPY.
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2/17/2008
As oceans warm and become more acidic, ocean creatures are undergoing severe stress and entire food webs are at risk, according to scientists at a press briefing at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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2/15/2008
It has been 40 million years since the waters around Antarctica have been warm enough to sustain populations of sharks and most fish, but if a changing climate warms the Southern Ocean, the ecological effects could be serious.
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2/13/2008
The 38th international meeting, to be held by the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, will feature a keynote address by James White, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, entitled "IPY: It's not just a year, it's a responsibility."
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2/11/2008
Researcher Peter Doran will lead a team working in icy Lake Mendota to test a NASA-funded robotic probe called ENDURANCE--an acronym for Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctic Explorer.
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2/11/2008
New Arctic sea-floor data released today suggests that the foot of the continental slope off Alaska is more than 100 nautical miles (115 statute miles) farther from the U.S. coast than previously assumed.
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2/5/2008
NASA's Richard Hoover is leading a team of explorers and scientists to Antarctica. The team will search for hardy microorganisms that flourish in hostile conditions.
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2/4/2008
A new study, primarily funded by NSF, shows that ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by more than 50 percent in the last half century, and are expected to disappear by the middle of the century.
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1/26/2008
New, NSF-funded research challenges the generally accepted belief that substantial ice sheets could not have existed on Earth during past super-warm climate events.
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1/25/2008
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS) project has completed the first season of an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the past 100,000 years.
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