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Though the Poles may seem to be vast, empty, icy places, did you know that they also are the home to 280-ton telescopes, scientific caravans crossing thousands of miles of ice sheets, and other incredible scientific projects? Read about them here.

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Field Expeditions

NSF-funded, University of Texas Researchers on International Team Probing Antarctic Glaciers for Clues To Past and Future Sea Level

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. More

Explorers to Probe Hidden Antarctic Mountains

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. More

USGS Site Allows Public to Track Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy, Read Scientists' Journals as They Map the Continental Shelf

9/5/2008 Follow the Healy as it travels through the Arctic Ocean mapping the seafloor as part of the work of the Extended Continental Shelf Task Force, a government-wide group headed by the State Department. More

Where was the Water on Mars? Brown Geologists Head to Iceland to Find Out

8/25/2008 Iceland, an island nation hugging the Arctic Circle, may share similarities with ancient Mars. So it’s a perfect place to figure out why different instruments on different Mars missions sometimes tell different stories. More

NASA's THEMIS Satellites Discover What Triggers Eruptions of the Northern Lights

7/24/2008 Researchers have discovered that an explosion of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon powers substorms, sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the aurora borealis, called the Northern Lights. More
                                      

Field Observatories

Scientist Explains Impacts of Climate Change in the Arctic

6/30/2008 During Earth Month in April, Mark Ivey, site manager for the Deprtment of Energy's ARM Climate Research Facility on the North Slope of Alaska, was interviewed about climate change and in particular, its impacts in the Arctic. More

Interagency Aerosol Observing Network

5/14/2008 The U.S. Department of Energy's Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment is featured on the cover of the latest report from the U.S. Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee. More

Arctic Winter Opens Window to Infrared Atmosphere

12/10/2007 Researchers use state-of-the-art infrared spectrometers and a new generation of millimeter wavelenth radiometers to collect unprecedented data set of observations of the 183-GHz water vepor line. More

Biologists and Alaska Natives Equip Seals with Satellite Transmitters to Develop Management Strategy

8/31/2007 Biologists and Native hunters in the Alaskan village of Kotzebue, funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, are jointly developing a management strategy for bearded seal habitat. More

North Pole Environmental Observatory: Taking the Pulse of the Planet

4/5/2007 Every spring since 2000, the National Science Foundation has supported expeditions to the North Pole to take the pulse of the Arctic Ocean and learn how the world's northernmost sea helps regulate climate, giving the U.S. a scientific presence at both Poles. More

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