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		<description>The SciencePoles website provides an overview of polar science and research findings as well as recent and forthcoming developments across a range of scientific disciplines.</description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:37:02 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>UN Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat Discusses Ocean Acidification</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The world&rsquo;s oceans are a natural sink for carbon dioxide, both   organically and inorganically.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:37:01 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Sridhar Anandakrishnan on the Thwaites Glacier and Using UAVs for Glacier Research</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/sridhar_anandakrishnan_on_the_thwaites_glacier_and_using_uavs_for_research/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Sridhar Anandakrishnan is a leading expert on the ice streams of West Antarctica, in particular the Thwaites glacier and other fast-flowing glaciers responsible for draining the interior of the ice sheet. As Professor at the Department of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University working closely with CReSIS, the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets at Kansas State University, he is working to better understand and predict the critical role of polar ice sheets in sea level change using new technologies and computer models.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:37:34 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Kazuyuki Shiraishi on Belgo-Japanese Cooperation in the Dronning Maud Land</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/kazuyuki_shiraishi_on_belgo-japanese_cooperation/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Kazuyuki Shiraishi is Vice Director-General in charge of Antarctic Programs at the Japanese National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) as well as a professor of geology. He has a particular interest in the evolution of continental crusts, especially the Gondwana Supercontinent, which existed between about 550 million and 165 years ago and contained the present-day continents of South America, Africa, Antarctica and Australia as well as the Indian subcontinent.&nbsp;
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:19:04 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Robert Bindschadler on West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/robert_bindschadler_on_west_antarcticas_pine_island_glacier/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Robert Bindschadler is a leading expert in the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets. He is Chief Scientist of NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, a Senior Fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center, a Fellow at the American Geophysical Union, and a past President of the International Glaciological Society. He has lead fourteen field expeditions to the Antarctic.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:35:19 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Steven Goderis: Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica with JARE 51</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/steven_goderis_collecting_meteorites_in_antarctica_with_jare_51/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Antarctica is not only a valuable place to conduct research about the Earth, its climate and its geological history; it's also a good place to learn more about our solar system and its history. The massive ice sheet covering Antarctica and the continent's relative isolation from human development make it an ideal place to search for meteorites.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:04:35 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>CHINARE 26</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Following its coverage of the 25th Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE 25), SciencePoles caught up with Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration (CAA), to hear about the goals of the 26th CHINARE expedition and China's future polar research plans, including the construction of a new research ice breaker.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:00:45 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>The Arctic LTER Project: John Hobbie Discusses Arctic Tundra Ecosystem Research</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/lter_project_john_hobbie_discusses_arctic_tundra_ecosystem_research/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Since the mid-1970s, Dr. John Hobbie from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, has been travelling up to Alaska during the summer months to look at Arctic tundra and freshwater ecosystems near Toolik Lake in Alaska's North Slope region. Noticeable changes have occurred over the past 30 years in the Toolik Lake region, the site of the Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project. The LTER program has 26 collaborative projects in which researchers are monitoring a variety of ecosystems in the U.S., the Antarctic, and a Pacific coral reef. More than 1,800 scientists and students are taking part in these research projects.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>DAMOCLES Scientists Convene in Brussels</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/damocles_scientists_convene_in_brussels/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[From the 10th to the 12th of November 2009, the DAMOCLES (Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies) project held a symposium in Brussels, Belgium. The symposium gathered more than 150 scientists involved in the EU-funded research project so they could debate and discuss the results of their observations and modelling as well as the scientific and technological challenges scientists face as they try to better understand the Arctic and its role in the climate system.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00:23 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Frank Pattyn on Ice Sheet Models and Ice-ocean Interaction</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/frank_pattyn_on_ice_sheet_models_and_iceocean_interaction/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A glaciologist and ice sheet modeller at the Glaciological Laboratory, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Universit&eacute; Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) , Frank Pattyn is a key member of the international ice sheet modelling community and a leading expert on ice sheet dynamics. His most recent interest lies in grounding lines - the last point of an ice sheet that rests on continental bedrock before the ice starts to flow over water to form an ice shelf - and their potential impact on future sea level rise. He is one of the first scientists to have worked in and around the new Belgian Antarctic station, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:21 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Lene Kielsen Holm: How Climate Change and Socio-economics Are Affecting Greenland Inuit</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/lene_kielsen_holm_climate_change_socioeconomics_affecting_greenland_inuit/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Traditions, language, and knowledge about sea ice are currently strongin Inuit communities in Northwestern Greenland. However despite effortsto keep their heritage alive, Inuit living in this corner of the planetare nonetheless affected by climate change and the preservation ofindigenous knowledge is being affected by external factors.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:00:27 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Claudio Aporta: Investigating What Canadian Inuit Know about Sea Ice</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/claudio_aporta_investigating_what_canadian_inuit_know_about_sea_ice/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Claudio Aporta is the principal investigator for the ISIUOP (Inuit Sea Ice Use andOccupancy Project), the Canadian component ofthe IPY Sea Ice Knowledge and Use (SIKU) project (IPY project n&deg; 166). ISIUOP has been running for three seasons in Inuit communities in Eastern Canada and is currently wrapping up its final season and moving towards publishing the results of their research.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:00:23 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Igor Krupnik: Documenting Arctic Peoples Knowledge and Use of Sea Ice</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/igor_krupnik_documenting_arctic_peoples_knowledge_and_use_of_sea_ice/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Indigenous people who live on the Chukchi Peninsula in the Russian Far East and in Western Alaska have experienced a dramatic shift in their sea ice use and knowledge over the past two generations. Several indigenous languages traditionally spoken in the region are on the decline, and in many communities far fewer people are venturing on the ice during the winter. As these processes continue, an impressive amount of traditional expertise about Arctic ice and the skills needed to master the ice-covered environment may not be passed to the next generations of indigenous hunters. Also, without proper documentation, it will be lost for scientists and the general public, making our common drive to understand the mechanisms and the impacts of the Arctic climate change more difficult.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:00:31 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Examining Indigenous Sea Ice Knowledge and Use</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/examining_indigenous_sea_ice_knowledge_and_use/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For many indigenous communities that have lived in the Arctic for millennia, sea ice has been an integral part of their living environment. As a place where they have spent a significant part of their lives hunting, fishing and even dwelling on the ice, the intimate understanding of sea ice the Inuit and other indigenous communities have has allowed these communities to survive and even thrive in the Arctic for millennia. This understanding of sea ice has been passed down from generation to generation through indigenous languages rich in highly specific terminology pertaining to sea ice and sea-ice related phenomena, as well as by firsthand experience on the ice.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Martin Siegert: Current Understanding and Ongoing Research of Antarctic Subglacial Lakes</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/martin_siegert_current_understanding_of_antarctic_subglacial_lakes/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Martin Siegert is the Head of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh and leader of a new consortium to study sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth in West Antarctica. As co-Chair of the Antarctic Climate Evolution Programme (ACE) and a member of the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Exploration group (SALE) , the broader focus of Professor Siegert's work is climate-related numerical modelling of large ice masses. In this interview, he discusses current understanding and ongoing research of Antarctic sub-glacial lakes.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Darrell Kaufman Discusses Methods Used in Studying past Arctic Climate</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/darrell_kaufman_discusses_methods_used_in_studying_past_arctic_climate/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As a Professor of Geology and Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, Dr. Darrell Kaufman has been studying past climate changes in Alaska over the last 20 years. His current research is aimed at using evidence from previous climate changes to help understand present and future climate changes. Dr. Kaufman is also currently coordinating a large multi-investigator project to generate and compile proxy climate records from Arctic lakes.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:00:41 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Darrell Kaufman on Examining the Reverse in the Arctic Cooling Trend</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/darrell_kaufman_on_examining_the_reverse_in_the_arctic_cooling_trend/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Darrell Kaufman, Professor of Geology and Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, has been studying past climate changes in Alaska for the last 20 years. His current research is aimed at using evidence from previous climate changes to help understand present and future climate changes. Dr. Kaufman is also currently coordinating a large multi-investigator project to generate and compile proxy climate records from Arctic lakes.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:00:25 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Francesco Frati: What Can the Genetic Makeup of Antarctic Springtails Tell Us?</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/francesco_frati_genetic_makeup_of_antarctic_springtails/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For as long as life has existed on Earth, environmental factors have had a significant influence over where a particular organism can live and to what extent it can thrive. Yet the environment can also ultimately influence the genetic structure of a given population of organisms, as Dr. Franceso Frati from the University of Siena in Italy and his colleagues have been investigating in their study of springtails over the past 15 years with the support of the Italian Antarctic Research Programme (PNRA).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:00:12 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Karin Lochte on Ocean Acidification and Carbon Sequestering</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/karin_lochte_on_ocean_acidification_and_carbon_sequestering/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A biological oceanographer involved in climate change research, Professor Karin Lochte, Director of Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), is extremely well placed to discuss the increasingly central question of ocean acidification, as well as the controversial issue of carbon sequestering. Earlier in her career, she was professor of Biological Oceanography at the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel where she lead a research unit focused on biogeochemical cycles in the sea.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:00:49 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Karin Lochte on the Work of the Alfred Wegener Institute</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/karin_lochte_on_the_work_of_the_alfred_wegener_institute/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) carries out cutting edge research in the Arctic and Antarctic as well as in the high and mid latitude oceans. A biological oceanographer involved in climate change research, Professor Karin Lochte became Director of AWI in 2007. Earlier in her career, she was professor of Biological Oceanography at the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel where she lead a research unit focused on biogeochemical cycles in the sea.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:00:47 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Hugh Ducklow: Long Term Ecological Research at Palmer Station</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/hugh_ducklow_long_term_ecological_research_at_palmer_station/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[So far most of Antarctica has not been greatly affected by climate change, at least as far as researchers can tell. However there is one place in Antarctica that has witnessed some of the most drastic changes on the planet: the Antarctic Peninsula. Here temperatures have been rising, sea ice has been retreating, ice shelves have been breaking up, and ecosystems have been heavily impacted.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:00:48 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Thomas Puestow on Polar View Meeting User Needs in the IPY and Beyond</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/thomas_puestow_on_polar_view_meeting_user_needs_in_the_ipy_and_beyond/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Since 2003 Polar View and its predecessor, Northern View, have been providing Earth observation services to a wide variety of end users all over the planet. These services include everything from ice charts to help ships navigate in polar waters to monitoring melting snow and glaciers to improve meltwater runoff prediction for hydrological services. Supported under the GMES programme by the European Space Agency and the European Commission, along with the participation of the Canadian Space Agency, Polar View is a conglomerate of various companies, government agencies and research institutes across Europe and Canada. The conglomerate hopes to eventually become an independent, self-sustaining enterprise providing a "one-stop-shop" for information about the cryosphere and the Polar Regions.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:00:32 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Thomas Puestow on the Emergence of Polar View as a Major Player in Earth Observation Services</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/thomas_puestow_on_the_emergence_of_polar_view/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Since 2003 Polar View and its predecessor, Northern View, have been providing Earth observation services to a wide variety of end users all over the planet. These services include everything from ice charts to help ships navigate in polar waters to monitoring melting snow and glaciers to improve meltwater runoff prediction for hydrological services. Supported under the GMES programme by the European Space Agency and the European Commission, along with the participation of the Canadian Space Agency, Polar View is a conglomerate of various companies, government agencies and research institutes across Europe and Canada. The conglomerate hopes to eventually become an independent, self-sustaining enterprise providing a "one-stop-shop" for information about the cryosphere and the Polar Regions.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:00:49 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Karl Erb on US Polar Research Logistics and Policy</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/karl_erb_on_u_s_polar_research_logistics_and_policy/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this interview, Dr. Karl Erb, Director of the United States Office of Polar Programs (OPP) in the National Science Foundation (NSF), discusses recent and future developments in U.S. polar research, logistics, and policy.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Karl Erb on US Participation in the International Polar Year</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/karl_erb_on_u_s_participation_in_the_international_polar_year/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this interview, Dr. Karl Erb, Director of the United States Office of Polar Programs (OPP) in the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), discusses the involvement of the U.S. in the 2007-08 International Polar Year (IPY), its benefits and legacies.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:00:18 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Eric Wolff: Climate Cycles and Million Year Old Ice</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/eric_wolff_climate_cycles_and_million_year_old_ice/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Eric Wolff is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Louis Agassiz Medal awarded by the European Geosciences Union (EGU). A veteran of six Antarctic and two Greenland seasons, Dr. Wolff has been working for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) for over twenty years, and has played a central role in the extremely important European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA). A leading expert in the study of the chemical composition of snow cover and ice cores and their use in the determination of past climates, pollution and atmospheric chemistry, Dr. Wolff has published some 130 peer-reviewed journal articles. He is one of the most cited scientists in the climate sciences.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 01:00:43 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Beata Csatho: Improving Models and Predictions for the Greenland Ice Sheet</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/beata_csatho_improving_models_and_predictions_for_the_greenland_ice_sheet/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Be&aacute;ta Csath&oacute; of the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo has been studying the Greenland Ice Sheet for a number of years and is currently involved in a number of projects funded by NASA and NSF.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:00:02 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Beata Csatho: History and Dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/beata_csatho_history_and_dynamics_of_the_greenland_ice_sheet/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Be&aacute;ta Csath&oacute; of the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo has been studying the Greenland Ice Sheet for a number of years and is currently involved in a number of projects funded by  NASA and NSF.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:00:44 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Igor Krupnik on the Social Sciences in the IPY: The Legacy of the Social Sciences</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/igor_krupnik_the_legacy_of_the_social_sciences_for_ipy/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As a cultural anthropologist and curator of Arctic and Northern ethnology collections at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., USA, Dr. Igor Krupnik, Ph.D., has done extensive fieldwork in Alaska and along the Russian Arctic coast, and has worked on several projects studying the impacts of climate change, preservation of cultural heritage, and ecological knowledge of Arctic indigenous people.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:00:50 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Igor Krupnik on the Social Sciences in the IPY: Promoting Reciprocity towards Arctic Residents</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/igor_krupnik_promoting_reciprocity_towards_arctic_residents/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Igor Krupnik, Ph.D., is cultural anthropologist and curator of Arctic and Northern ethnology collections at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., USA. He has done extensive fieldwork in Alaska and along the Russian Arctic coast, and has worked on several projects studying the impacts of climate change, preservation of cultural heritage, and ecological knowledge of Arctic indigenous people.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:00:23 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Angelika Humbert on the Future of the Wilkins Ice Shelf</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/angelika_humbert_on_the_future_of_the_wilkins_ice_shelf/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The collapse of the ice bridge between Charcot and Latady Islands on the Wilkins Ice Shelf on April 1st marked an important milestone in the drama of the gradual disappearance of the ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. Break-up events have been occurring on the Wilkins since1993; however since a major break-up event in February 2008, only a 40km-long ice bridge between had been holding the ice shelf in place. Between half a kilometre and a few kilometres wide, the ice bridge finally snapped at its narrowest point, succumbing to the enormous stresses it had been subjected to for over a year.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:00:18 +0200</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[A veteran of over 50 research expeditions in Antarctica, the Arctic, the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau, Professor Paul Mayewski is one of the world's leading glaciologists and climatologists. Also Director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, he has published over 300 papers on climate-related research and co-authored The Ice Chronicles, a book that captures the adventure of scientific research in remote reaches of the Earth and relates important new breakthroughs in the understanding of climate change.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:00:01 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Director of the  Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine Professor Paul Mayewski is one of the world's leading glaciologists and climatologists. A veteran of over 50 research expeditions in Antarctica, the Arctic, the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau, he has published over 300 papers on climate related research, and is the co-author of The Ice Chronicles, a book that captures the adventure of scientific research in remote reaches of the Earth and relates important new breakthroughs in the understanding of climate change.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:00:57 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[To mark the end of the 4th International Polar Year's official research period on the 28th of February 2009, SciencePoles interviewed Dr. David Carlson, Director of the IPY International Programme Office (IPO) about the IPY, its achievements, its limitations and itslegacies.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:00:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[On February 15th, 2009, the Brussels-based International Polar Foundation (IPF) officially inaugurated the new Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station, the very first Antarctic research station ever designed and built to run entirely on renewable solar and wind energies.The new "zero emission" Belgian research station is the only research platform completed during the fourth International Polar Year (IPY) and constitutes Belgium's main contribution to IPY-4.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:00:42 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Marking the official end of the Fourth International Polar Year (IPY) in Geneva, Switzerland on 25 February 2009, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the International Council for Science (ICSU) have co-published a preliminary report entitled "The State of Polar Research", which provides an outline of what has been learned so far from IPY research.
The official press release announcing the report's release follows below:]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:00:22 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>The LGP: Using the Victoria Land Coast as a Proxy for Climate Change in Antarctica</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/lgp_using_victoria_land_coast_as_a_proxy_for_antarctic_climate_change/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What might happen to terrestrial and marine ecosystems in the Antarctic as climate change progresses is a question that has interested researchers working on the planet's southernmost continent for some time.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:00:11 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Shulamit Gordon Discusses the Latitudinal Gradient Project</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Latitudinal Gradient Project (LGP) is a framework under which several different research projects from New Zealand, Italy and the United States are operating. A total of 18 projects under the LGP are studying terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems along the Victoria Land coast in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:00:07 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[With the inauguration on Kunlun station at Dome A, it can be said that man has effectively colonized the Earth's last great terrestrial frontier, as well as one of the most remote and inhospitable locations anywhere on Earth.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:00:33 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Jenny Baeseman on APECS an Important Legacy of IPY</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As the fourth International Polar Year draws to a close, talk of the legacies that the current IPY will leave in its wake has begun to circulate. Established to respond to the specific needs of students and young professionals in the polar sciences, the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is turning out to be a surprisingly successful legacy of IPY-4. Initially a break-off group of the IPY Youth Steering Committee (YSC) (IPY project n&deg;168) before the two organisations re-combined under the APECS banner in September 2007, the purpose of APECS is to help the new generation of polar scientists make professional connections, share ideas, advance their careers, and continue the important integration of outreach into research projects.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:00:20 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Today, sixteen days after leaving Zhongshan Station, the Dome A traverse team are over 1,000 kilometres inland, and less than 200 kilometres from Dome A. Having attained an altitude of over 3,500 metres, oxygen levels are already much reduced and the temperature has dropped to below -30 degrees centigrade. Two days ago, on New Year's Eve, the team came across an AGAP (Antarctic Gamburtsev Province Project) refuelling camp and a support team of some eleven people and stopped a few hours to assist in maintaining a temporary runway for the Twin Otter aircraft carrying out the project's airborne survey of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountain Range.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:00:45 +0100</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/interview_of_dr_huigen_yang_director_of_the_polar_research_institute_of_chi/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Huigen Yang was interviewed by Jean de Pomereu aboard the Xue Long as it sailed from Antarctica to Australia during the last week of December 2008.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:00:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Adam Lewis on Using Indigenous Knowledge in Monitoring Arctic Ice Cover</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/adam_lewis_on_using_indigenous_knowledge_in_monitoring_arctic_ice_cover/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For more than three decades the Nunavik Research Centre (NRC) in Kuujjuaq, Quebec (which falls under the direction of the Makivik Corporation, the official body that legally represents and serves the needs of Inuit communities in Quebec under the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement) has been using traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) collected from the Inuit living in Nunavik over the last 30 years in conducting research aimed at helping the indigenous population living in Quebec.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:59:42 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[As the climate changes in the Arctic, indigenous communities living in the Far North are seeing an impact on the environment around them. As these communities depend heavily on living natural resources such as fish, beluga whale, seals and other animals as a primary source of subsistence, any impact climate change has on the ecosystems in which the Inuit live will ultimately have an effect on their way of life.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:00:51 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[This morning, we finally got to wave goodbye to the Dome A traverse team of 28 men. After six weeks of immersion in the 25th Chinese Antarctic Expedition and the emotional speeches and storytelling at the banquet the night before, it was very moving to witness the spontaneous outburst of hugs and tears as old friends and new bid farewell to each other on the edge of the ice sheet.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:00:42 +0100</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/frozen_grail_dome_a_and_the_future_of_ice_coring_in_antarctica/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Understanding the history of the Earth's climate and atmosphere is not simply an intellectualcuriosity; it is a necessity if we hope to predict and prepare for the impact of human-induced global warming on the global environment.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:00:51 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[First a weather update: The last week has brought us two force ten gales lasting 48 hours each. According to meteorologists here as well as those from the neighbouring Russian station and Australian station (100km away), this is unusual for this time of year. The same is true for the particularly cold winter this (coastal) region has just experienced, with temperatures dropping to -42&deg;C.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:00:53 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Chinese Antarctic Expedition: Antarctica Rules Zhongshan at Last</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In an age of jetting across continents and oceans, oblivious to the forces that lie below us, it feels a little frustrating to be marooned in sea ice, unable to move forward and, at this stage, with little prospect of moving backwards. However, as the days pass, that is what everyone aboard the Xue Long must accept. Antarctica still makes the rules. This is what fascinates many of us who choose to come here.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:00:50 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Chinese Antarctic Expedition: Close Call</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/chinese_antarctic_expedition_close_call/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It all started in 1910 with Captain Scott and the loss of a tracked vehicle as it was being unloaded from his expedition ship, the Terra Nova. Since then the history of polar research and exploration has been littered with stories of vehicles dropping through sea ice, sometimes with tragic consequences.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:00:08 +0100</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/chinese_antarctic_expedition_plato_and_the_future_of_astronomy_at_dome_a/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If Antarctica lives on in our minds as perhaps the most distant and otherworldly of all Earthly environments, than it is all the more remarkable to see how, in recent years, it has itself become a privileged vantage point from which to observe and research other worlds.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:00:31 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[The pursuit of science in Antarctica has always been a human and logistical challenge. Not many fields of research are as dependent on a combination of environmental conditions, human ingenuity, and logistics. There is no easy way to get to Antarctica, and ice - which defines the continent - remains its strongest rampart.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:00:37 +0100</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/portrait_of_mr_li_yuansheng_leader_of_the_dome_a_traverse/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It long way from the steppes of Mongolia to the East Antarctic Plateau, but in many ways, these vast, windswept landscapes have things in common. Perhaps this is why Li Yuansheng, leader of the Dome A station traverse and construction team, feels so at home here.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:59:03 +0100</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/how_does_physical_activity_affect_sleep_quality_in_antarctica_/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last year, Sciencepoles reported a sleep study being carried out on the BELARE (Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition) 2007-2008 expedition team members during the Princess Elisabeth Antarctic station's first building phase. Dr. Nathalie Pattyn, who works in the Department of Cognitive and Biological Psychology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Department of Behavioural Sciences of the Royal Military Academy, investigated the influence of physical activity on the sleep-wake distribution of people exposed to constant daylight.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:00:38 +0100</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/chinese_antarctic_expedition_barrier_of_seaice/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last night as the sun shone and the Xue Long gently weaved its way through the ice floes towards Zhongshan Station, what can be described as a motivational, team-building ceremony was held onboard in anticipation of what will be the most important and testing Antarctic campaign ever for the Chinese. This was followed by a banquet to celebrate our approach to Antarctica: A feast of traditional dishes, and a long series of toasts raised to the expedition, to its different teams and members.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:00:20 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Last night was party night on board Xue Long, playing all sorts of games, the rules of which remain a mystery to me. But today at around 55 degrees south, soon after crossing the Antarctic Convergence (the imaginary line separating the warmer waters of the mid-latitudes with the colder Antarctic waters), we encountered our first fully-fledged Southern Ocean storm: A brutal, elemental whirlwind in which water, atmosphere, waves and wind all seemed to morph into one. It was the stuff of legends, which often figures into many accounts of sailing through these high latitudes.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:00:32 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[It is a paradoxical, but arresting thought that the only continent without an indigenous human population has been the most apt at drawing peoples together. Starting with the Swedish-Norwegian-British expedition of 1949-52, and further reinforced by the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-58, the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, and now the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08, modern Antarctic research and exploration has had as much to do with national strategy, positioning and recognition, as with building international cooperation and partnerships in both polar science and logistics.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:00:17 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Xue Long (Snow Dragon) is by all accounts the most famous ship in China: The distinctive red hulled vessel charged with turning China's Polar ambitions into reality and propelling this rising superpower to the edges of the Earth, in the same way that it's nascent breed of astronauts are busy propelling it into space. With no operational air link to the Antarctic at this time, it isn't too much to say that Xue Long is the veritable backbone of the Chinese Antarctic Programme (CHINARE).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:00:07 +0100</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/stein_sandven_of_nersc_on_arctic_regional_ocean_observing_systems/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Scientists have been making scientific observations and collecting data on the Arctic Ocean for well over a century. Most of the data have been collected as part of specific research projects, without emphasis on building long-term observing system. This means that much of the data collection has been scattered and sparse, and with a few exceptions there has been a lack of systematic, long-term observations of the Arctic and sub-Arctic seas. The Arctic Regional Ocean Observing Systems, or Arctic ROOS as it is more commonly known, has been established to promote and develop operational observing systems based on satellites, in situ sensors, and modelling systems.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:00:23 +0200</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Anne Aghion is an Emmy award winning filmmaker fascinated by people who survive extreme circumstances. Her work has been praised by critics for conveying, without preconception, a strong sense of the people and places she covers.
For ICE PEOPLE, a feature-length documentary that explores the physical, emotional and spiritual adventure of living and conducting science in Antarctica, Aghion and her crew spent four months on the ice.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:00:56 +0200</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/orson_smith_arctic_engineers_facing_challenges_of_a_changing_climate/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[With average temperatures increasing, permafrost melting, and sea ice retreating, roads, bridges, buildings, and other structures are being affected right across the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.
Facing these challenges and the way structures need to be designed, constructed and maintained are Arctic engineers such as Dr. Orson Smith, currently the Chair of Civil Engineering at the University of Alaska Anchorage. In a recent interview, Dr. Smith discusses some of the major issues Arctic engineers are facing, and the ways they are being addressed. He also emphasises the need to collect more climate data to better adapt new and existing structures to the changing climate.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:00:05 +0200</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/gamburtsev_robin_bell_on_antarcticas_ghostly_mountains/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As a geophysicist specialised in Antarctic glacial and sub-glacial environments, Dr. Robin Bell has led seven major research expeditions to Antarctica and is one of the original instigators of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08. She is Director of the ADVANCE program at the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York City, and a Doherty Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. In this SciencePoles interview, Dr. Bell provides an overview of what is currently known about the Gamburtsev Mountains in East Antarctica, and of how the research is unfolding.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:00:06 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Towards a Polar Decade (And the Rising Cost of Oil)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[At the opening of the 2008 SCAR-IASC IPY conference in St Petersburg (the first joint conference of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research and International Arctic Science Committee), Artur Chilingarov, polar explorer and Deputy of the Russian State Duma, officially asked the polar research community to support the concept of a 'Polar Decade' as a direct legacy of the Internatinal Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:00:47 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Europe&#8217;s Polar Ambitions</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Born of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08, but with its vision firmly fixed on the future, the European Polar Board (EPB) is in the process of proposing and developing a number of high profile European cooperation projects in the field of polar research. In this feature, SciencePoles looks at the overall strategy, as well as the most current and far-reaching components of this package.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:00:25 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>CAML Observing Top Predators at Sea Onboard the Ivan Papanin</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In December 2007, the Russian "ice-class" ship Ivan Papanin left Cape Town, bound for Antarctica. The vessel carried the 120 containers with all the elements for the construction of the Princess Elisabeth station in East Antarctica. Onboard, were the Russian crew, a dozen military officers, one photographer, and two Belgian ornithologists.
The ornithologists, Alain De Broyer and Ren&eacute;-Marie Lafontaine (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences), travelled round-trip from Cape Town to Crown Bay, studying the Antarctic marine life with particular focus on birds and mammals (also called "top predators") for the international Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Stephen Warren: Sampling Arctic Snow to Determine Black Carbon Concentrations</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As a teaching professor whose research includes solar and infrared radiation processes in snow, clouds and sea ice, the Antarctic climate, oceanic processes on Snowball Earth and global cloud climatology, Dr. Stephen Warren from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle has spent part of his professional life looking at black carbon. At the moment, Dr. Warren is involved in a project in which he and his colleagues are collecting samples of snow from across the Arctic in order to determine black carbon concentrations in the snow, updating and expanding on the Arctic snow sampling campaign that Dr. Tony Clarke and his student Kevin Noone, also of the University of Washington at the time, carried out in 1983-84.
Dr. Warren recently lent some of his time to SciencePoles to discuss his current research project as well as other research projects looking into black carbon his colleagues in polar science are involved with.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:00:03 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Charlie Zender and Florent Dominé: Measuring Albedo of Snow Contaminated with Black Carbon</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Charlie Zender, Associate Professor and Director of the Earth System Modeling Facility at the University of California, Irvine, and Florent Domin&eacute;, CNRS Research Director at the LGGE (Laboratoire de Glaciologie et G&eacute;ophysique de l'Environnement) in Grenoble, France have been looking into black carbon's effect on snow albedo using a new laser-powered optical device that Dr. Domin&eacute; invented and seeing if their observations line up with predictions Dr. Zender's models predict.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:00:02 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Black Carbon Playing a Major Role in Arctic Climate Change</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/black_carbon_playing_a_major_role_in_arctic_climate_change/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the past few decades, the media has paid a lot of attention to greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide and the role that they play in warming the earth's climate. There are, however, several aerosols which also have a significant impact on regional and global climate. One of these is black carbon.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:00:39 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Grand Designs: New Antarctic Stations during the IPY 2007-08</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/grand_designs_new_antarctic_stations_during_the_ipy_2007_08/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One of the lasting legacies of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08 will be a series of high-tech scientific research stations recently completed or in the process of being constructed in Antarctica. Never since the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58 has the frozen continent seen such intense infrastructure building activity, or such a rapid increase in research capacity.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 01:00:45 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Angelika Humbert on the Wilkins Ice Shelf Breakup</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/angelika_humbert_on_the_wilkins_ice_shelf_breakup/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Angelika Humbert of the University of M&uuml;nster in Germany specialises in researching ice shelf dynamics. Having obtained her doctorate at the Department of Mechanics at Darmstadt University of Technology, and currently a member of the Polar Geophysics Groups at the University of M&uuml;nster, Dr. Humbert performs numerical simulations and analyses data, which are then used as input for models she develops. In addition to the Wilkins Ice Shelf, she has also studied the Ross, Fimbul, George VI and Brunt Ice Shelves in Antarctica.
During the recent EGU General Assembly in Vienna, Dr. Humbert offered a few moments of her time to discuss with SciencePoles the recent break-up of the Wilkins Ice Shelf.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 01:00:37 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Increased Precipitation in the High Latitudes</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just approved for release a technical Paper on Climate Change and Water, the first report of its kind on the evolution of Earth's freshwater resources in the face of climate change. In line with previous IPCC reports, the current report is based on a consensus between the many contributors and offers a detailed account of the wide-ranging implications climate change will have on the global hydrologic system in the future.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:00:49 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Seeking Answers beneath the Ice: Cynan Ellis Evans on Antarctic Subglacial Lakes</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/cynan_ellis_evans_on_antarctic_subglacial_lakes/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[SciencePoles recently interviewed Dr. Cynan Ellis Evans of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) on the subject of Antarctic sub-glacial lakes. As a biogeochemist specializing in Polar lake environments, Dr Ellis-Evans was a founding member of the International steering committee for the Sub-glacial Antarctic Lake Exploration (SALE) research programme. Amongst other his various responsibilities, he is Head of the BAS Programme Office tasked with supporting and helping to coordinate BAS science, and is senior advisor to the International Programme Office of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:00:31 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Wim Vyverman: Using Microorganisms in Antarctic Surface Lakes to Reconstruct past Antarctic Climate</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/wim_vyverman_microorganisms_in_antarctic_surface_lakes_and_climate/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[While ice cores have been able to give researchers a general idea about the global climate over the past 800,000 years, investigating certain microorganisms and their fossilised remains at the bottom of surface lakes in Antarctica can be a useful tool in investigating past climate change and variation on a more regional level and on a much shorter timescale.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:00:40 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Philippe Mettens on Belgium&#8217;s Return to Antarctica</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/philippe_mettens_on_belgiums_return_to_antarctica/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Philippe Mettens, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), offered some of his time to SciencePoles to discuss his thoughts on Belgium's new Antarctic research station, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:00:53 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Huigen Yang: Developing China&#8217;s Polar Research Capacity</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/huigen_yang_developing_chinas_polar_research_capacity/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As part of an ongoing coverage of China's IPY Polar research projects and activities, SciencePoles interviewed Professor Yang Huigen, the new Director of the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) responsible for carrying our scientific research in the Polar Regions, operating Chinese research stations and vessels, and promoting cooperation with international Polar research organisations.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>The IPY EALÀT Project: Studying How Indigenous People Adapt to Climate Change in the Arctic</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/the_ipy_ealat_project_how_indigenous_people_adapt_to_climate_change/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One of the interesting aspects of the current International Polar Year that sets it apart from previous Polar Years is the number of research projects that integrate scientific research with traditional knowledge of indigenous communities that have inhabited the Arctic for thousands of years. One such project is the IPY EAL&Agrave;T project (n&deg;399), which is investigating how traditional reindeer herding societies in the Arctic are adapting to climate variability and change. The IPY project is part of the broader EAL&Agrave;T project that also involves outreach and education to reindeer herders in Eurasia and Alaska.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:00:23 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Frank Pattyn: Launching the Princess Elisabeth Station Research Programme</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/frank_pattyn_launching_the_princess_elisabeth_station_research_progralmme/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Professor Frank Pattyn is a glaciologist and ice sheet modeller at the Universit&eacute; Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). In November 2008, he will lead the first team of five scientists to the new Belgian polar research station "Princess Elisabeth Antarctica".]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:00:54 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Qu Tanzhou Interview: China&#8217;s Growing Contribution to International Polar Research</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/qu_tanzhou_chinas_contribution_to_international_polar_research/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As part of an ongoing coverage of China's IPY Polar research projects and activities, SciencePoles recently interviewed Mr Qu Tanzhou, Director of the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration (CAA) responsible for steering Chinese policy and scientific activities in the Polar Regions.
For a quick overview of what research China will be carrying out in the Polar Regions, please have a look at our previous article: Pandas and Snow Dragons: Chinese Polar Research During the IPY and Beyond.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:00:21 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Belare 2007-08 Participants Subject to Sleep Study</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/belare_2007_08_participants_subject_to_sleep_study/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[During the Antarctic summer, there is constant daylight.  This means that there is no "lights off" signal to stimulate the secretion of melatonin in the saliva and cause drowsiness to take over in the evening, which is what normally happens to a person exposed to regular day-night rhythms. What is the effect of permanent daylight on our sleep cycle? Can physical activity compensate for the normal physiological pressure for sleep? Members of BELARE 2007-2008 have volunteered to become guinea pigs during their stay in Antarctica for an experiment being conducted by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:00:52 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Ice Sheets at the Forefront of IPY Concerns</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/ice_sheets_at_the_forefront_of_ipy_concerns/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the next IPY day to take place on 13 December and dedicated to ice sheets, SciencePoles takes a closer look at their characteristics, the history of their exploration, and what science projects are carrying out research on them during the IPY 2007-08.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:00:35 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Graham Hosie: Antarctic Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/graham_hosie_antarctic_marine_biodiversity_and_climate_change/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[During the International Polar Year, the Census for Antarctic Marine Life is investigating the distribution and abundance of Antarctic marine biodiversity and how it will be affected by climate change. It is a major ship-based research programme taking place during the austral summer of 2007-08 which involves scientists from 30 countries and 14 vessels.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:00:01 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Claude De Broyer on Belgium&#8217;s Contribution to the Bioregionalisation Process</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/claude_de_broyer_belgiums_contribution_bioregionalisation_process/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Besides organising and hosting the recent CCAMLR bioregionalisation workshop in Brussels in August 2007, Belgium has made several contributions to the ambitious project to divide the Southern Ocean into bioregions for the purpose of eventually creating a representative network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). In addition to the marine research being conducted at eight Belgian Universities and two Belgian federal research institutions, one of Belgium's most important contributions to the bioregionalisation process has been developing the SCAR-MarBIN (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Marine Biodiversity Information Network), a network of databases that Belgium has been putting together and maintaining since 2005.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:00:14 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Maintaining Biodiversity in the Southern Ocean through Marine Protected Areas</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When most people think of the Antarctic, they think only about the vast, ice and snow-covered continent of Antarctica at the bottom of the world. However if you consider the Antarctic on a broader ecosystem level, the Antarctic does not include only the continent, but the entire Southern Ocean as well.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:00:09 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Belgium&#8217;s Role in Advancing the Creation of Marine Protected Areas in Antarctica</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/belgiums_role_in_advancing_the_creation_of_marine_protected_areas_in_antarc/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The development of a representative network of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean has been a priority of the Belgian government ever since 2005, when the Belgian Federal Ministry of Environment decided to place greater emphasis on environmental considerations, sustainable fishing practices, and the conservation of marine biodiversity in the region.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:00:03 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Archives of Change: Ice Cores and the Reading of Climate</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Recently interviewed by SciencePoles, Dr Val&eacute;rie Masson-Delmotte is a paleoclimatologist and leading expert on Antarctic and Greenland ice cores. Based at the French 'Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement' (CEA-CNRS UVSQ), she is also a contributor to the recent IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, and the author of children's books on the subject of climate and polar exploration.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:00:19 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Paul Jolicoeur: IPY Geonorth 2007 and the Proposed Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/paul_jolicoeur_ipy_geonorth_2007_conference_arctic_spatial_data/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[From August 20th to 24th, the IPY GeoNorth 2007 Conference took place in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. The First International Circumpolar Conference on Geospatial Sciences and Applications, the main purpose of the conference was to discuss the planned Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI), which once in place would make it possible for all eight circumpolar Arctic nations (Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland), as well as businesses operating in these regions, to share geospatial data.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:00:20 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Venturing into New Frontiers: Johan Berte Talks about the Princess Elisabeth Station</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/venturing_into_new_frontiers_johan_berte_princess_elisabeth_station/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Alain Hubert, Johan Berte, Nighat Amin and their colleagues at the International Polar Foundation have been hard at work to make the dream of the first ever "zero emission" Antarctic station a reality. Once completed, the Princess Elisabeth Station will be the first functioning Belgian station in the Antarctic in more than four decades, and the scientific research that will be carried out there once it is completed will be part of Belgium's contribution to the activities of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:00:52 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Meredith Hooper: Palmers Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/meredith_hooper_palmers_penguins_and_the_warming_of_antarctica/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[SciencePoles interviewed Meredith Hooper to mark the publication of her new book: 'The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica'. A trustee of the IPF-UK and recipient of the US National Science Foundation Antarctica Service Medal, Meredith Hooper's writing ranges from award-wining non-fiction books for all ages to academic articles and highly acclaimed fiction and information titles for children. During the last fourteen years, she has been invited as a writer on United States and Australian Antarctic programmes and has specialised in writing about the history, geology and wildlife of Antarctica.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:00:32 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Steven Emslie on the Adélie Penguin Diet Shift</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/interview_with_steven_emslie_the_adelie_penguin_diet_shift/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A press release dated July 11 revealed a study on the Ad&eacute;lie Penguins' diet. According to eggshell fragment studies, a significant dietary change occurred in the early 1900s: the Ad&eacute;lie penguins shifted from eating fish to krill.
Researchers Steven Emslie of the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, and William Patterson of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, studied over 200 fossil eggshell pieces ranging from 100 to 38 000 years old. By comparing the proportion of carbon and nitrogen in the shells with that found in fish and krill, it was possible to see how the bird's diet had evolved over time.
SciencePoles interviewed Dr. Steven Emslie, co-author of this revealing research, who has been studying the paleoecology of penguins in Antarctica for the past 15 years.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:00:17 +0200</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/pandas_and_snow_dragons_chinese_polar_research_during_the_ipy_and_beyond/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08 is a catalyst for nations to significantly increase their investment and level of activity in polar research.
Among those that have risen to the challenge, few are more noteworthy than China, a country that, at a key time in its history and economic development, is in the process of raising its status as one of the leading powers in the field of polar research.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:00:04 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>EU Opens Debate on Adaptation Strategies with Green Paper</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/political_action_on_climate_change_eu_opens_debate_on_adaptation_strategies/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Climate change is a phenomenon that cannot be properly addressed without action from politicians and decision-makers in all parts of the world. Scientific research provides data that policymakers can use in order to take action on local, regional, national and supranational levels. This policymaking in turn can determine what scientific research is carried out and how, especially since decision-makers control the purse strings of the money that funds a lot of the research that is being done. Members of the scientific community and in particular those who study climate change in the Polar Regions are stakeholders in the formulation of adaptation strategies.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:00:42 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Chris Rapley: Taking Stock on Climate Change</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/chris_rapley_taking_stock_on_climate_change/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On the eve of his retirement as Director of the UK's British Antarctic Survey (BAS), SciencePoles interviewed Professor Chris Rapley on climate change from a polar research perspective. The interview also touched on broader issues, such as the societal decisions that now lie before us.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:00:18 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>World Environment Day 2007 the Global Outlook for Ice and Snow</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It was no surprise that celebrations for the 2007 United Nations World Environment Day (WED) on the 5th of June happened to be in Troms&oslash;, Norway. This year, in support of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08, the WED focused on the effects that climate change is having on polar ecosystems and communities, and the consequences it could have for the rest of the planet. World Environment Day is commemorated each year on the 5th of June and is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations raises worldwide awareness of the environment, aiming to draw political attention and to stimulate action.  Activities included a scientific conference on climate change at Troms&oslash; University.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:00:41 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Steve Padin: Tracking the Density and Properties of Dark Energy</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/dark_energy_tracking_density_and_properties/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The International Polar Foundation recently interviewed senior scientist Dr. Stephen Padin, from the University of Chicago, whom has been project manager for the South Pole Telescope (SPT) project over the past four years and whom is currently wintering over at the South Pole, making sure that the SPT is working properly. The SPT was built within the International Polar Year 2007-2008 framework to detect dark matter density and properties, by studying the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation in our Universe.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:00:34 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>South Pole Astronomy Dark Energy through the Telescope</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/south_pole_astronomy_dark_energy_through_the_telescope/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A telescope 10-metres in diameter, baptised the South Pole Telescope (SPT), has just been built at the South Pole. Within the activity framework of the International Polar Year 2007-2008, the SPT offers astronomers a new window into the Universe.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:00:31 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Grete Hovelsrud of Cicero on Social Science in the IPY</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/grete_hovelsrud_of_cicero_on_social_science_in_the_ipy/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Grete Hovelsrud of the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO) Institute recently talked to SciencePoles regarding the role social sciences are playing in the International Polar Year 2007-08. Dr. Hovelsrud is a member of both the International Polar Year 2007-08 Joint Committee and the Norwegian National Committee for the International Polar Year 2007-08.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 01:00:56 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Indigenous Communities and Climate Change: A New Challenge for Adaptation</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/indigenous_communities_and_climate_change_a_new_challenge_for_adaptation/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As climate change progresses, the Polar Regions are changing more rapidly than any other region of the planet. No one has noticed these changes more than those who belong to indigenous peoples living in the Arctic. Given the specific indigenous knowledge that has helped these communities survive in such harsh conditions for millennia coupled with the fact that the Polar Regions are a bellwether region of the planet when it comes to climate change, this is all the more reason to pay attention to what is happening to those who have intimate knowledge of the Arctic and its environment.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 00:59:12 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Bruno Danis on ANDEEP&#8217;s Discovery of New Antarctic Species Biodiversity and SCAR-MarBIN</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/bruno_danis_new_antarctic_species_biodiversity_scarmarbin/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Bruno Danis of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences recently agreed to be interviewed by SciencePoles concerning the approximately 700 new marine species that have been found in the depths (from 700 m up to 6.3 km) of the Weddell and Scotia Seas off of Antarctica during the three ANDEEP expeditions that took place between 2002 and 2005.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 01:00:58 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Susan Solomon: Clarifying Facts and Addressing Misconceptions</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/susan_solomon_clarifying_facts_and_addressing_misconceptions/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Susan Solomon is a senior scientist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Chemical Sciences Division. Widely recognized as one of the leaders in the field of atmospheric science, Dr. Solomon is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a foreign associate of the French and European Academy of Sciences. She was awarded the United States' highest scientific honor, the National Medal of Science, in 1999 for linking synthetic chemicals to the seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica. In 2002, she was elected by governments to co-chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I. SciencePoles interviewed Dr Solomon about the ozone hole, climate change, and some common misunderstandings.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:00:33 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Ralf Döscher Discusses DAMOCLES and Climate Modelling</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/ralf_doscher_discusses_damocles_and_climate_modelling/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Recently SciencePoles interviewed Dr. Ralf D&ouml;scher, Senior researcher in ocean and climate modelling at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute's Rossby Centre. Dr. D&ouml;scher is also a Project Co-leader in charge of numerical modelling for the DAMOCLES project and was willing to tell us a bit about the kind of work he was doing within the project.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:00:28 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Future Impacts of Climate Change in the Arctic</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/future_impacts_of_climate_change_in_the_arctic/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Professor Oleg Anisimov is Head of the Climatology Department at the State Hydrological Institute of Roshydromet, located in St Petersburg, Russia. His main studies concern the impacts of Climate Change in high latitudes, with a recent attention brought to Arctic permafrost regions. The IPF met Dr. Anisimov at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) press conference held in Brussels, in which he was a coordinating lead author of Chapter 15 on Polar Regions for Workgroup II. He kindly accepted to answer a few questions concerning the outcome of the discussions and the future implications to be expected in the Arctic due to climate change.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:00:43 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>ESA&#8217;s Cryosat 2 Mission Back on Track</title>
			<link>http://www.sciencepoles.org/articles/article_detail/esas_cryosat_2_mission_back_on_track/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The European Space Agency's CryoSat 2 mission is set to make important contributions to our understanding of the interconnection between polar ice cover and climate change.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:00:58 +0200</pubDate>
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