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12/24/2008
The Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program--a joint endeavor of NASA, NSF and the Smithsonian Institution--has again deployed to Antarctica. The team is sending short dispatches from its field camp as work progresses.
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12/23/2008
Through the NSF-funded PolarTREC program, Wood, from Talbert Middle School in Huntington Beach, Calif. is part of a team from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology working at the volcano's summit. Read his journals.
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11/24/2008
Middle-school science teacher Shakira Brown, a teacher at New York's Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy, spent several months working with scientists in Antarctica and communciating with students in the U.S.
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11/18/2008
Robin Bell, of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is the NSF-funded co-leader of multi-national expedition to explore the mysterious Gamburtsev Mountains. Follow her journey.
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11/3/2008
Researchers identified significant discrepancies between humidity measurements obtained by various ground-based sensors at the North Slope of Alaska. Read more to find out the implications of these findings for Arctic climate studies.
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10/31/2008
Read a blog from Sam Bowser, the researcher leading a team of scuba divers working at Explorers Cove, New Harbor, Antarctica. Bowser studies the ecology, evolution, and biology of single-celled organisms called foraminifera.
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10/27/2008
Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins. The research could show how Earth's climate changed in the past and how future climate change will affect global sea level.
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10/21/2008
Scientists from six nations will combine efforts over the next three months to penetrate one of earth’s last unexplored places: Antarctica’s vast Gamburtsev Mountains, never seen by humans because they lie under up to four kilometers of ice.
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10/15/2008
In the Arctic, ice can develop on instrumentation that collects standard meteorological measurements for climate studies. New ultrasonic sensors and heated probes are improving data delivery while requiring less maintenance.
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10/4/2008
The mission's primary goal is to shed light on the origin of the water that flows through Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland. But scientist hope to learn more about the nature of the storms in the region. Read dispatches and see images.
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