UCSB marine biologist to present talk at opening ceremony for the International Polar Year
...nn, the event will include remarks from four other polar scientists about the nature and scope of U.S. Inte... Polar Year is an intense, coordinated campaign of polar observations, research, and analysis that is multidisciplinary in scope and international in partici...US Launches International Polar Year on February 26
...n Washington, D.C. During the ceremony, a panel of polar scientists will discuss the latest research and pr... a global research effort to better understand the polar regions and their climatic effect on the Earth. More than 200 scientific expeditions will take place...AGU Journal highlights -- February 23, 2007
...s, a parameter which may shed light on whether the polar atmospheres between the northern and southern hemi...investigate the thermal and dynamical state of the polar mesosphere during conditions of PMSE occurrence. The authors found that peak occurrence of PMSEs cor...Looking for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa
... in smooth lakes. Using his knowledge of Earth's polar environments gained over 12 years working in Antar...e planet Jupiter. "Based on analogy with Earth's polar seas, Europan life may occur in many habitats: on soft and rocky bottoms at the ocean's floor, assoc...ICSU and WMO launch the largest polar research program in 50 years
... determine the present environmental status of the polar regions Change: to quantify and understand past and present environmental and social change in the polar regions, and to improve projections of future change Global linkage: to advance our understanding, ...European launch of International Polar Year 2007-2008
...s global threat of climate change, and explain why polar science is crucial to understanding how our world works. The polar regions are vital arenas for science, foreign policy, trade, energy and security, said Professor Car...Exploring polar regions, understanding climate
...ompetition on the theme "Childrens impressions of polar regions of the earth" will be announced. Our gre... not only create an awareness of how important the polar regions are for our climate, but will also inspire a whole new generation of scientists. From jou...An architectural plan of the cell
... are essential for many cellular processes such as polar growth. "To really understand the architecture of ...tion of microtubules is crucial. The filaments are polar structures, their two ends grow and shrink at different rates. The study created a precise map indic...Prototype space probe prepares to explore Earth's deepest sinkhole
...ogy could also be used to explore Earths ice-bound polar lakes, which hold clues to the origins of life on Earth. Microbes which appear to be new to science have been discovered floating in deep water and lining rocks in Zacatn. Far below sunlights ability to penetrate, they may get their energy from nut...ESA's Medspiration project branches out to support biodiversity
...onal Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) polar orbiters, the Japanese's Space Agency-NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the AMSRE instrument onboard NASA's Aqua. ...ESA open-source software supports Germany's TerraSAR-X
... images of planet Earth Circling the Earth in a polar orbit at an altitude of 514 km, TerraSAR-X will collect high-quality X-band radar data of the entire planet. The satellite will operate independent of weather conditions, cloud coverage and illumination, and will be capable of delivering data at a re...UAF researchers garner $6.5 million in NSF grants
... observatories, link the data from these and other polar observatories to form a circum-Arctic network and produce a comprehensive description of the state of the regional Arctic systems. The AON group will also develop models of terrestrial responses and feedbacks to climate change. At each observatory...AGU Journal Highlights -- April 16, 2007
...f the Arctic Ocean indicate that a reversal of the polar oceans circulation may be under way. The spatial d...f atmospheric anomalies between the subtropics and polar regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Ren and Cai investigated temperature anomalies associated with t...2007 Communicator Award goes to glaciologists from Bremerhaven
...ion. The prize has been awarded to the group of 15 polar and marine researchers working with Professor Hein...the majority of which deal with the melting of the polar ice caps and the potential consequences for changes in sea levels. The team from Bremerhaven has p...Envisat Symposium 2007 kicks off in Switzerland
...lites have ushered in a new area of exploration to polar regions. We started from scratch and in just a few years have learned a tremendous amount, which is extremely important because this is a timely study in the context of climate change, he said. Prof. John Burrows of Bremen University in Germany sp...Mosquito genes explain response to climate change
...ure anywhere in the world, from the tropics to the polar regions. The newly created map contains 900 million DNA base pairs. There are three billion base pairs in humans. As various genome maps are being completed, scientists now face the task of determining how genes interact and how they produce specif...Smithsonian hosts Polar Science Symposium to celebrate International Polar Year 2007-2008
The Smithsonian Institution will host a polar science symposium as one of the inaugural U.S. con... research, with particular attention to changes in polar systems past, present and future, and their global impact. The symposium will carry on a Smithsonian...Satellites shed light on global warming
... solar radiation that will be absorbed by ice-free polar oceans rather than reflected by ice-covered oceans, increasing the ocean temperature. Average temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula have risen over the last 50 years by half a degree Celsius a decade and are having an impact on the ice shelves and...Arctic ice retreating more quickly than computer models project
...ric and oceanic circulation that transport heat to polar regions. March ice Although the loss of ice for March is far less dramatic than the September loss, the models underestimate it by a wide margin as well. The study concludes that the actual rate of sea ice loss in March, which averaged about 1.8 ......rking in Full Resolution Mode to acquire images in polar orbit at an altitude of 800 km with a spatial resolution of 300 metres. The global composites are produced by processing MERIS images together in a standardised way. Thirteen out of 15 MERIS spectral bands are processed with an upgraded algorithm ...