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Addressing Arctic Issues from Space
09.11.2009
From October 20th to 21st, international scientists, researchers, anddecision makers gathered at the Space and the Artic workshop' in Stockholm, Sweden. The event was co-organized by the Swedish National Space Board and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) together with the ESA, EUMETSAT and the European Community.
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Last Season for Decade-Long Ice Shelf Project
03.11.2009
This year, Australian researchers will return to the Amery Ice Shelf, the largest ice sheld in East Antarctica, to finish a decade-long project studying the effects of climate change. Known as AMISOR (Amery Ice Shelf Ocean Research), the program for this season will have scientists measuring and sampling through the…
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Russian Scientists to Conduct Research to Back Russia’s Arctic Sea Bed Claims
03.11.2009
Moscow is planning extensive scientific research to support its claim on a portion of Arctic Sea bed which it claims to be a prolongation of the Russian continental shelf, which is believed to contain vast oil, natural gas and mineral resources. The Russians commissioned ice-breakers and research vessels with a…
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Operation Ice Bridge Almost Half Completed
03.11.2009
Operation Ice Bridge, A research program by NASA in cooperation withuniversity researchers to image what's happening both on and under theice in West Antarctica, has already completed seven of the 17 plannedflights in the research operation, meaning it is almost halway finished and well on its way tofinishing by mid-November.…
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CHINARE 26 to Complete First Land Cover Map of Antarctica
29.10.2009
The 26th Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE), which left Shanghai on October 11th, is expected to complete the first land-cover map of Antarctica by the end of this year. The new map will be the most precise map of Antarctica to date, with a precision of about 15 metres, about…
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Arctic Lake Sediment Cores Show Recent Warming and Ecological Changes
21.10.2009
The results of a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on October 19th showed unprecedented biological and chemical changes in a sediment core retrieved from the bottom of an Arctic lake on the east coast of…
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Ice Loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Slower than Previously Estimated
21.10.2009
Results of improved ground measurements in West Antarctics were recently published in the online journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems of the American Geophysical Union and the American Geochemical Society. The measurements, made in the framework of theWest Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN) project, showed that the rate of ice loss of the…
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First Flight Completed for Operation Ice Bridge
20.10.2009
The first in a long series of flights under Operation Ice Bridge took off on October 16th from Punta Arenas, Chile. A research program by NASA in cooperation with university researchers to image what's happening both on and under the ice in West Antarctica, the purpose of Operation Ice Bridge…
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25% of World’s Carbon Sink in Arctic Land and Seas, but Climate Warming Could Change That
15.10.2009
According to their results published in the journal Ecological Monographs, Dr. David Mcguire of the US Geological Survey and the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and his colleagues show that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for approximately one quarter of the global carbon net sink. However this trend could…
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Robot Submarine to Explore Melting underneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet
02.10.2009
Geologists from Northern Illinois University in partnership with researchers from the University of California at Santa Cruz, Montana State University and several others will be undertaking a five-year investigation of melting at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Dubbed WISSARD, (Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling), the multi-million dollar project…
