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TROLLSAT to Serve Antarctica
20.04.2007
After Tromsø, Svalbard and Grimstad (Norway), Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) is now operating a new satellite ground station located in Antarctica: "TrollSat".
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SEDNA: a Close Look at Sea Ice Dynamics
03.04.2007
A team of scientists led by Jennifer Hutchings of the University of Alaska Fairbanks will spend two weeks at the U.S. Navy ice camp in the Beaufort Sea to study the relationship between ice movement, stress and the overall mass of sea ice. This field expedition is part of the…
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Launch of Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)
02.04.2007
The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) aims to bring together young researchers and early career scientists and engineers with an interest in Polar Regions and the Cryosphere from around the world.
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NASA and Local Arctic Communities Collaborate during IPY
30.03.2007
Changes in Arctic climate have resulted in changes in snow cover and snow conditions. Observing and understanding snow changes are important both for scientists and for local reindeer herders who have to know and even predict snow conditions, because they indicate availability of forage and mobility for herding.
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NASA and USGS Produce Best Ever Satellite Images of Antarctica
13.03.2007
Researchers from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have woven together more than a thousand images from the Landsat 7 satellite in order to create the most detailed high-resolution map of Antarctica ever produced.







