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1/5/2008
UAF's Marine Advisory Program and Northwest Campus are presenting a speaker series through April 29 in Nome, Alaska on topics ranging from sea-ice monitoring to Eskimo languages.
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1/4/2008
The meeting--Feb. 11-15--will include several sessions on climate change, including one which will feature presentations by University of Alaska post-doctoral students who are conducting studies on Arctic change in the IPY context.
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1/4/2008
Scientists using NASA satellites discovered an extensive network of waterways beneath a fast-moving Antarctic ice stream that provide clues as to how "leaks" in the system affect sea level and the world's largest ice sheet.
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1/4/2008
Researchers achieved a milestone in conducting scientific observations from balloons, by launching and operating three long-duration flights in a single Antarctic summer. Scientists are using the balloons to investigate cosmic rays and antimatter.
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1/3/2008
The University of Washington's Polar Science Center has teamed up with the Pacific Science Center to present four days of activities to bring the public a look into the world of polar research.
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12/28/2007
NASA scientists and astronomers took to the skies at the top of the world to observe the Quadrantid meteor shower. Scientists believe this could be the most brilliant meteor shower in 2008 with over 100 visible meteors per hour at its peak.
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12/28/2007
Researchers with the NSF-funded portion of the international, bi-polar POLENET project are deploying GPS units and seismic sensors across Antarctica to learn how the continent's ice sheets are changing. Read their dispatches "live from the ice."
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12/28/2007
The global annual temperature−for combined land and ocean surfaces–for 2007 is expected to be near 58.0 F–and would be the fifth warmest since records began in 1880. The greatest warming has taken place in high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.
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12/28/2007
Japan has agreed not to target humpback whales during its annual whale hunt that is underway in the seas off Antarctica. This year, Japan was planning to target 50 humpback whales for the first time in its Antarctic research program.
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12/26/2007
Lollie Garay teaches at Redd School in Houston, Texas. As part of a unique cooperative endeavor between the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), she has joined a acience team on the icebreaker Oden.
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