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[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:35 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | null | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenleft.org.au%2Fnode%2F62517.json | https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/all/themes/zen/newglw/favicon.ico | en | null | Syria: A love letter to Jarablus | null | null | www.greenleft.org.au | YPJ fighters.
In largely Kurdish Rojava in Syria's north, a profoundly democratic and revolutionary experiment is underway. A multi-ethnic, feminist and socialist-oriented society is being built from the ground up, organised around communes and other bodies of participatory democracy.
The experiment began with an insur... | https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62517 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.greenleft.org.au/77603fc2d73016bfe37c05c8cc5afe9fefdb04048314b5a9e31a55e95a0ec568.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T04:51:24 | null | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | null | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenleft.org.au%2Fnode%2F62464.json | https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/all/themes/zen/newglw/favicon.ico | en | null | Turkey: HDP calls for solidarity following closure and storming of Özgür Gündem newspaper | null | null | www.greenleft.org.au | Hisyar Ozsoy By
HDP MPs hold copies of Özgür Gündem in parliament, August 17.
[This statement was released on behalf of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) on August 17.]
On August 16 Erdoğan regime's attack on the media and press since the July 15 abortive coup took a different turn by the closure of the daily Özgür Gü... | https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62464 | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.greenleft.org.au/956859a26ccfbaa961ff8e71116eec1c81006a6a974b9f01aa61004a47dff8c3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:59:37 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | null | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenleft.org.au%2Fnode%2F62526.json | https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/all/themes/zen/newglw/favicon.ico | en | null | Students occupy to save arts college | null | null | www.greenleft.org.au | Zebedee Parkes By
SCA under new management.
After months of protests, mass meetings and failed talks with the University of Sydney administration, about a dozen Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) students started an occupation of the Dean's office at its Callan Park campus in Rozelle on August 22.
SCA students dropped a ... | https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62526 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.greenleft.org.au/15affa193926352b67bc84db8dad118cb3f0a0bc7dd280effeffb9c2f4659c80.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:59:15 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | null | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenleft.org.au%2Fnode%2F62521.json | https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/all/themes/zen/newglw/favicon.ico | en | null | Asian Australians pen letter to parents about anti-Blackness | null | null | www.greenleft.org.au | Radha Wahyuwidayat By
An Australian version of an open letter from Asian Americans in solidarity with Black Lives Matter has been circulating on social media.
“Letters for Black Lives” is a project that began in the United States to initiate cross-generational conversations between young Asian Americans and their famil... | https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62521 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.greenleft.org.au/b137b926a01f633b553f4d8d1cf33e7efdc319a78ea21b14d9fab8ec96bec814.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T04:49:42 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | null | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenleft.org.au%2Fnode%2F62539.json | https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/all/themes/zen/newglw/favicon.ico | en | null | Turkey's US-backed invasion of Rojava | null | null | www.greenleft.org.au | Tony Iltis By
Turkish troops cross Syrian border, August 24.
On the surface, it seems the war against ISIS in Syria is going well. On August 12, the town of Manbij was taken by forces of the Manbij Military Council (MMC) and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Then on August 24, the nearby border town of Jarablus was o... | https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62539 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.greenleft.org.au/e9b3746db3c737ab942e25272d8334c79e1c8ee66a667dc8789a42832d41cf4c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:04:59 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | null | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenleft.org.au%2Fnode%2F62527.json | https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/all/themes/zen/newglw/favicon.ico | en | null | FSU members win 10.5% pay rise | null | null | www.greenleft.org.au | Workers at InTech Credit Union, who for the first time will be covered by an enterprise agreement, have won a 10.5% guaranteed pay rise across the board over three years, according to a statement published by the Finance Sector Union on August 19.
Under the new agreement, InTech Credit Union will also join a growing nu... | https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62527 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.greenleft.org.au/f8fc9ecb67d55a4f1928d5884b0037e443378d53ac0943cb95f3f89ed763f015.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T10:50:05 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | null | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenleft.org.au%2Fnode%2F62548.json | https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/all/themes/zen/newglw/favicon.ico | en | null | Almost a third of Cuba is forest thanks to program | null | null | www.greenleft.org.au | Forests in Cuba now make up 30.6% of the country's land area, thanks to a reforestation initiative carried out by the socialist government, a new report has found.
Titled Environmental Outlook: Cuba 2015, the National Office of Statistics and Information report details recent improvements in Cuba's forest coverage, up ... | https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62548 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.greenleft.org.au/3851003683ee67f5ccf92f064498f24cbeb6e8417ea7677d781b761ddd8527ce.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:19 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | null | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenleft.org.au%2Fnode%2F62520.json | https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/all/themes/zen/newglw/favicon.ico | en | null | Black Lives Matter to Us, Too | null | null | www.greenleft.org.au | July 23 Black Lives Matter rally in Perth. Photo: Alex Bainbridge
This is the Australian version of the open letter created by Letters for Black Lives, an ongoing project for people to create and translate resources on anti-Blackness for their communities in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter.
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Mum, Dad, Uncle, Aun... | https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62520 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.greenleft.org.au/288d2f8e26553083ed7ad33d4be83e2b676cf621d3ac2b2b1ac330f39d1e612c.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T10:52:54 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | null | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenleft.org.au%2Fnode%2F62560.json | https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/all/themes/zen/newglw/favicon.ico | en | null | Geelong locals to ask Sarah Henderson to cross the floor for equal love | null | null | www.greenleft.org.au | Geelong locals, with the support of the Geelong Trades Hall Council, plan to hold a rally at 12noon on September 2 at the office of Federal MP for Corrangamite, Sarah Henderson, to ask her to cross the floor for marriage equality.
Acting Secretary of Geelong Trades Hall Council Colin Vernon said: “This is such an impor... | https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62560 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.greenleft.org.au/b606b21530cf40239b7f1b7544978dbb4413f06c71f128154484aab441cb32ef.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:11 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | null | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenleft.org.au%2Fnode%2F62528.json | https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/all/themes/zen/newglw/favicon.ico | en | null | Students protest National Art School merger | null | null | www.greenleft.org.au | National Arts School protest at NSW parliament on August 24.
Sydney's Oxford Street was shut down on August 24 by hundreds of people protesting moves to absorb the National Art School into the University of New South Wales.
The push to merge the nation's oldest art school is being promoted by the state government and i... | https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62528 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.greenleft.org.au/de6a4af71d3d146593d44bc62d206b53339a1b101550fb67ed87a2e8d731a78b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:01:52 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | null | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenleft.org.au%2Fnode%2F62522.json | https://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/all/themes/zen/newglw/favicon.ico | en | null | A People's Bank could break the power of the Big Four | null | null | www.greenleft.org.au | Jim McIlroy By
Pressure is mounting for a royal commission into the big banks' fraud.
With calls for a royal commission into the banking sector growing, the argument for a new "people's bank" to challenge the domination of the big banks is gaining strength.
A number of recent events have propelled community anger at th... | https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62522 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.greenleft.org.au/987017d6848706e24184969f1eb6656a516d855ecf95b80fca8eb4accefd168f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:54:55 | null | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherbrookerecord.com%2Fcontent%2Fprotesters-against-bell-get-extension-court-hearing.json | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/misc/favicon.ico | en | null | Protesters against Bell get extension for court hearing | null | null | www.sherbrookerecord.com | With only 14 hours to prepare for a hearing after being summoned to Granby courthouse, protesters of the Bolton Pass cell tower project April O’Donoughue, Frank Salvatori, and Normand Roy were fortunate in securing legal representation from the Montreal law firm Trudel, Johnston, and Lespérance who stepped in on a pro-... | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/protesters-against-bell-get-extension-court-hearing | en | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | www.sherbrookerecord.com/8e57e8386c2744be61272c0fe41d9673eb567086d9ea0fd1adde2c81f2d29144.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:54:29 | null | 2016-08-15T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherbrookerecord.com%2Fcontent%2Fbell-awarded-court-injunction-against-cell-tower-protesters.json | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/misc/favicon.ico | en | null | Bell awarded court injunction against cell tower protesters | null | null | www.sherbrookerecord.com | An interim interlocutory injunction was granted to Bell preventing protesters who stopped construction of the telecommunications tower on Route 243 in Bolton Pass from blocking access to the site until a judgment is rendered on August 17.
See the August 16 issue of Brome County News for the complete story. | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/bell-awarded-court-injunction-against-cell-tower-protesters | en | 2016-08-15T00:00:00 | www.sherbrookerecord.com/2a4dc00ddc384186e21f45b362153e9611e63658fe750251f9d529a58ca0e3fb.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:55:22 | null | 2016-07-28T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherbrookerecord.com%2Fcontent%2Fisland-brook-united-church-being-dismantled.json | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/misc/favicon.ico | en | null | Island Brook United Church being dismantled | null | null | www.sherbrookerecord.com | The former United Church in Island Brook is coming down, bit by bit. After an unsuccessful attempt to sell the building without any adjoining land, the ownership of the building has been transferred to Maxime Robert, who has already begun the process of disassembling a piece of local history.
“After attempting to sell ... | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/island-brook-united-church-being-dismantled | en | 2016-07-28T00:00:00 | www.sherbrookerecord.com/abf94119ec31b1af2219d4cd186bfc4442bc8faddd204f00bb0db7e23db42f7d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:56:22 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherbrookerecord.com%2Fcontent%2F%25E2%2580%259C-adventure-does-not-stop%25E2%2580%259D-veronica-kaczmarowski-closing-le-cartier.json | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/misc/favicon.ico | en | null | “The adventure does not stop” Veronica Kaczmarowski on the closing of Le Cartier | null | null | www.sherbrookerecord.com | The abrupt closure of the Le Cartier restaurant in Sherbrooke on Monday came as a result of unmanageable rental costs, former operator Veronica Kaczmarowski explained to the Record.
“It’s a very large space, and not all that space is used but we’re obliged to pay for it because it is here,” Kaczmarowski said, citing a ... | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/%E2%80%9C-adventure-does-not-stop%E2%80%9D-veronica-kaczmarowski-closing-le-cartier | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.sherbrookerecord.com/ef06d1b76352ade4f1238869a920cc8cb1ec95259c394143dcd34ccac2704dfb.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:58:35 | null | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherbrookerecord.com%2Fcontent%2Fmargaret-owens-things-stay-us.json | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/misc/favicon.ico | en | null | Margaret Owens: The things that stay with us | null | null | www.sherbrookerecord.com | It’s nearly impossible to know in advance what will mark a person’s life, for better or worse, and become a lasting part of who they are.
When Margaret Owens was a child, she looked at a painting of a tree on a wooden panel that her grandmother had made and said, “That’s boring.”
A few days later when Owens returned fo... | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/margaret-owens-things-stay-us | en | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | www.sherbrookerecord.com/ac95a0686df1d62c80d153ebce238d14fb8f7af51a45a59b34eedbf83fe2a3ee.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:53:31 | null | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherbrookerecord.com%2Fcontent%2Fwriting-record-and-being-townshipper.json | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/misc/favicon.ico | en | null | Writing for The Record and being a Townshipper | null | null | www.sherbrookerecord.com | As an aspiring journalist, it seemed natural that I would do everything I could to gain some real world experience, and The Record opened the doors for me in a way I never thought was possible for a university student.
I hardly remember my interview for the summer intern position with Sharon McCully last winter. What I... | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/writing-record-and-being-townshipper | en | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | www.sherbrookerecord.com/6a05a4337e66e2330cf7197a0f1b071fd5f605aea92355a950dc7c15ab491e2e.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T20:51:02 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherbrookerecord.com%2Fcontent%2Fnew-downtown-mural-bringing-sherbylove.json | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/misc/favicon.ico | en | null | New downtown mural bringing the #sherbylove | null | null | www.sherbrookerecord.com | Rising high above Wellington Street North, the fifteenth addition to Sherbrooke’s mural circuit made its first public appearance last weekend. Though the public artwork is not going to be officially unveiled until next week, it went on display Friday as the scaffolding surrounding the work began to come down.
The mural... | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/new-downtown-mural-bringing-sherbylove | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.sherbrookerecord.com/9942bdebcee2b365c90e9ac48b44c1b4163e2e5e068e052feb79f14d07e67182.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:57:17 | null | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherbrookerecord.com%2Fcontent%2Fstgeorge%25E2%2580%2599s-georgeville-going-strong-150.json | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/misc/favicon.ico | en | null | St.George’s of Georgeville going strong at 150 | null | null | www.sherbrookerecord.com | The community of St. George’s Anglican Church in Georgeville will be celebrating their church’s 150th anniversary this coming Sunday morning. A special service of celebration and communion will be conducted starting at 10am, followed by a reception at the Murray Memorial Hall during which more memories will be shared
J... | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/stgeorge%E2%80%99s-georgeville-going-strong-150 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.sherbrookerecord.com/66726f1409f2ba92bceb9fe549fc058baa5746fe31a17a508394e0fcce84fd76.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:56:49 | null | 2016-07-28T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherbrookerecord.com%2Fcontent%2Fnew-quebec-lodge-already-success.json | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/misc/favicon.ico | en | null | New Quebec Lodge already a success | null | null | www.sherbrookerecord.com | The councilors and directors of Quebec Lodge are knee-deep in happy campers at their new location, and program director Duncan Pluant said that things are going very well.
Pluant discussed the surprise third week of camp, which ran during the second week of July, which was offered at no cost for children in refugee fam... | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/new-quebec-lodge-already-success | en | 2016-07-28T00:00:00 | www.sherbrookerecord.com/9f9a5192889fcabbae0e21726b77906536896fb864b85a257754ff68b5f72a8a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:58:11 | null | 2016-08-08T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherbrookerecord.com%2Fcontent%2Fabnormal-water-levels-continue-be-hazardous.json | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/misc/favicon.ico | en | null | Abnormal water levels continue to be hazardous | null | null | www.sherbrookerecord.com | On August 5 the Town of Brome Lake issued an advisory to the general population about the water level in the lake that is lower than usual. The administration and public security want boaters to navigate the lake with extreme caution because rocks and debris normally covered are now exposed, becoming navigational hazar... | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/abnormal-water-levels-continue-be-hazardous | en | 2016-08-08T00:00:00 | www.sherbrookerecord.com/de3723b1d7c64d8fc7562489e7e46c39faa2a3d4bad4f4cba13fe432162c97af.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:53:58 | null | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherbrookerecord.com%2Fcontent%2Fdigital-art-festival-takes-new-technology-streets.json | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/misc/favicon.ico | en | null | Digital art festival takes new technology to the streets | null | null | www.sherbrookerecord.com | The Espace [im] media digital art festival is getting ready to roll back out onto the streets of Sherbrooke after a three year hiatus. Organized by the Sporobole contemporary art workshop and gallery, located just east of Wellington Street in downtown Sherbrooke, the festival will see the creative work of 23 different ... | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/digital-art-festival-takes-new-technology-streets | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.sherbrookerecord.com/e6a94f9fbce9e3f49bce75c328a8e881715b25f424090bc2bb560dad7a297c0a.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T20:50:51 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherbrookerecord.com%2Fcontent%2Fcell-tower-protestors-agree-terms-judgment.json | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/misc/favicon.ico | en | null | Cell tower protestors agree to terms of judgment | null | null | www.sherbrookerecord.com | An agreement between legal representatives of Bell Canada and the protesters of the East Bolton cell tower project in Bolton Pass on Route 243 has been reached.
See the story in the August 30 issue of Brome County News. | http://www.sherbrookerecord.com/content/cell-tower-protestors-agree-terms-judgment | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.sherbrookerecord.com/e81c00dabb86f48b6d8099de27214efd0af4f43726ce27e6acec62c878e9e14d.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:05 | null | null | Lasers: They’re not just for evil geniuses with access to an aquarium filled with sharks. It turns out sending pulses of light into the sky is an excellent way to study the little-understood regions of the upper atmosphere. A research team is making new discoveries above Antarctica using LIDAR. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2754.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/lidar-team.jpg | en | null | Light it up | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Zhibin Yu Two LIDAR beams shoot out of the Arrival Heights lidar observatory during the winter at McMurdo Station. Scientists are using the laser-based technology to study the upper atmosphere above Antarctica.
Light it up
LIDAR in McMurdo illuminates upper atmosphere characteristics
Lasers: They’re not j... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2754 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/fe91ea2c9286433d09b2533be62596bba20c28d471ed60de31aff7c5ebf83858.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:21:15 | null | null | McMurdo Station will be a key link in a new environmental satellite system that will not only benefit meteorological forecasting and climatic research but also triple the local bandwidth for communications by as early as January 2008. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1203.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/NPOESS (topi image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Steve Martaindale Anthony Powell, satellite communications tech, and Cleve Cleavelin, McMurdo IT operations manager, look over the old NASA dish that will be used to transmit data for NPOESS on a recent visit to Black Island near McMurdo Station.
McMurdo key link in satellite system
NPOESS will monitor gl... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1203 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/22aa55b534b010e4bf79a14b7d08fa71f7fcb256e674fe278e3ff3baee6eca17.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:23:37 | null | null | The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets has helped transform glaciological research over the last decade. Its radar systems have been instrumental in recent research that has shown that glaciers in West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea Embayment have reached a tipping point. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3033.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: CReSIS The G1X, a modified radio-controlled aircraft, returns from a flight in West Antarctica. Sporting a wingspan of about five meters, the plane carries a lightweight two-kilogram radar system that was integrated into the airframe itself by CReSIS engineers.
Transformative technology
CReSIS unmanned ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=3033 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e16ea8f4a04831a9466914122703d8dfb179aa2b5e7c79c10f8e50c069d21df8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:32:25 | null | null | One of three long-duration balloon experiments launched on the ice shelf near McMurdo Station at the end of December made an encore appearance during its sub-orbital spin around the Antarctic. The joint National Science Foundaion-NASA program marked an historic first with the successful launch and operation of three ba... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1306.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/Mitchell spy glass.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Balloons Away Launch of three long-duration experiments marks a first for program More Information Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility
The Antarctic Sun, December 19, 2004 Scientist John Mitchell, above, watches a balloon carrying the Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) payload make its s... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1306 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8e2e2b17d177da0af97e71ce381c1e29453c7f2313d88d10833ec9ed435cbcf3.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:59 | null | null | There’s a saying that goes, “One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure.” Michael Bartalos has taken one nation’s trash in Antarctica and is turning it into a statement about global conservation. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1755.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The long view | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Michael Bartalos Michael Bartalos poses for a picture while in Antarctica. The San Francisco-based graphic artist went to the Ice this past season to create a piece to highlight recycling efforts by the U.S. Antarctic Program.
The long view Bartalos recycles Antarctic rubbish into artwork about conserva... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1755 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f876bf8e27e8b54ce9f1dc386cef2b7604a6221e922adad8888309f5d76c304b.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:26 | null | null | Clubbing has become a big part of the McMurdo Station culture. No, not the kind of clubs with big bass beats and itty bitty mini-dresses. These are clubs whose members take an unusually strong interest in various modes of transportation, whether by land, sea or air. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2891.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/frozen-few-outdoor-patch1.jpg | en | null | Join the club | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Mechanic Andy Young works on a snowmobile at the Mechanical Equipment Center at McMurdo Station. Young is also an avid pilot who works professionally in Alaska flying bush planes. His passion for aviation inspired him to start a flying club at McMurdo.
Join the club
Enthusiasts find common gr... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2891 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/67d80baeea90a4cf08f1e278e1ecd35b4fe3b6a3dc4bb1921c25d2f9ca6bb2dc.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:27 | null | null | Filmmaker Anne Aghion’s latest documentary takes the viewer on a far-away journey to Antarctica, where she wants her audience to feel the wintery blasts of the wind and hear the empty silence of the continent. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1669.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/ANNE_COOKS.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library Filmmaker Anne Aghion, center, cooks up lunch for her film crew and a team of scientists working in the McMurdo Dry Valleys in 2006. Her documentary, "Ice People," has been released and premiered around the world last year, including at McMurdo Station.
'Ice People' Ag... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1669 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/586ad75b3f975fa0137e8b004c4ddbcac352a013ffa8dd1ef256d66ee85b31b3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:21 | null | null | The last plane of the 2013-14 summer season at the South Pole Station departed on Feb. 14, leaving behind 41 people for the Antarctic winter. The earliest the next plane will land at the bottom of the world is likely some time in October 2014. The sun will set on March 23, not to return until Sept. 21. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2985.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2985 | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | null | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2985 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ae8f3d53046ab478c449d2c5cee5914dbd138a58ca4dd244f636159a5909acc8.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:15:30 | null | null | Charles Hood's latest work, South x South, celebrates Antarctica’s aviation history and unique culture through a series of poems, from the playful to the meditative. His work was supported by a grant from the NSF's Artists and Writers Program. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2836.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Charles Hood A South Pole Station airfield worker directs an LC-130. NSF Artist and Writer Charles Hood's South x South celebrates Antarctica’s aviation history and unique culture through a series of poems, from the playful to the meditative.
Airy words
Hood's book of poetry pays homage to aviation in Ant... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2836 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/953a6fa0809593aa2384ac117f29539ded4e03e03a768ab64dfb64e1596cc689.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:45 | null | null | Brenda Hall generally uses glaciers to help her reconstruct climate change through history. But the University of Maine researcher and three members of her team spent the month of January picking through the beaches between McMurdo Sound and Terra Nova Bay looking for the remains of long-dead southern elephant seals. T... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1244.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/brenda hall (thumb).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Courtesy of Brenda Hall Researcher Paul Koch examines a mummified elephant seal on Inexpressible Island in the Ross Sea.
Extinct Hunt
Vanished elephant seal colonies indicate Ross Ice Shelf survived warmer climate in recent past
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] | 2016-08-26T13:13:55 | null | null | The Antarctic community mourned the loss of three men who were killed when their de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed in the Transantarctic Mountains last week. A memorial service at the South Pole Station was one of several acts of remembrance that took place. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2805.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/pole-memorial.jpg | en | null | Tragedy in Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jeffrey Donenfeld
Tragedy in Antarctica
Memorial service held at South Pole for air crew killed in plane crash
The Antarctic community mourned the loss of three men who were killed when their de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed in the Transantarctic Mountains last week. Above, a memorial service is held... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2805 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/672257df9071411d9aa6645336a60d8fc3b42e5263cde9caf4f1a9d275e557d6.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:40 | null | null | Last year, Michelle Brown stepped away from her eighth-grade classroom at O. Henry Middle School in Austin, Texas, and made her way to the icy world of Antarctica, as a participant in the PolarTREC program, which brings together polar researchers and teachers to help strengthen science curriculum in the classroom. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2619.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Michelle Brown Austin, Texas middle school teacher Michelle Brown hikes near McMurdo Station shortly after arriving in Antarctica as a participant in the PolarTREC program, which brings together polar researchers and teachers to help strengthen science curriculum in the classroom.
Remote assignment Midd... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2619 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f6cab01c746e8890a02b135878febd86e880bb91fb6d8f89cc137fa2336f7b47.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:37 | null | null | Talk about a road trip. Three semi-trailer trucks, each pulling 20-foot-long refrigeration containers, rolled into Denver this month after a 24-hour trip across the southwest corner of the country to deliver ice cores that had been drilled in West Antarctica some 11,000 miles away. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2391.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/nicl_wais_loader.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek USAP refrigerator mechanic Steve Mikel attends to the refrigeration unit on one of the 20-foot conatiners used to transport the WAIS Divide ice cores from Antarctica to the National Ice Core Laboratory in Lakewood, Colo., near Denver.
Trucked in Wais Divide ice cores arrive safely at NICL
Tal... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2391 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/727734ab0bb1480fdf74212239641a6374390ff9f71b8a6caf2cdb46143bb38a.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:16:54 | null | null | Welcome to the party, Malaysia. The Southeast Asian country will become the 49th party to the Antarctic Treaty, an international agreement that preserves the continent for peaceful, scientific pursuits. This year marks the 50th anniversary of when the treaty went into effect. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2508.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | Growing membership | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Andrew Jackson/Australian Antarctic Division An Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Madrid, Spain, in 2006. Currently, there are 48 parties to the Antarctic Treaty, an international agreement that preserves the continent for peaceful, scientific pursuits. Malaysia recently announced it would accede t... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2508 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/20891131525147f0cbdfd852eb93c8fd9646069f88b20787382965d421b972fd.json |
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"Marco Tortonese",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:47 | null | null | Of all the places in the world, one would not think of the South Pole as the home of a state-of-the-art cryogenic facility. After all, it is one of the coldest places on the planet. Although too cold to support life, even the South Pole is not cold enough to accommodate the advanced astrophysical research that is done ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2498.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/cryo_balloon.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Robert Schwarz Steffen Richter and Nick Strehl deliver a 250-liter liquid helium dewar to the BICEP telescope during winter at the South Pole. The telescope uses sensitive detectors that require super cool temperatures to search the universe in the microwave spectrum.
Deep freeze South Pole experiments re... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2498 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/aaad20e172f3581769f82b21fbae71fe63ae4278623413604fbdea5ce99ec787.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:02 | null | null | Scientists Andrew Thurber and Rory Welsh went diving in McMurdo Sound to learn how benthic communities of bacteria, marine worms and other tiny marine organisms function on a feast or famine diet. Understanding those dynamics will also lead to more details about the carbon cycle and climate change. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2777.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Feast or famine | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Andrew Thurber Research diver Rory Welsh prepares to return to the surface through a dive hole after collecting specimens from the seafloor. Walsh and principal investigator Andrew Thurber are studying the food web dynamics of marine organisms, including worms and bacteria that live in the seafloor. Feast... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2777 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8b8c9d6d635c683cbb7f06d6b4098332c5a20a75b4f84b3d906bbc19eef39b06.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:32 | null | null | Exploration of other planets and moons often begins in Antarctica. But a geologist who specializes in research of planetary surfaces using remote-sensing techniques is working in the opposite direction, applying his experience in studying Mars to learn about remote geology in Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4083.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/salvatore.jpg | en | null | Coloring outside the lines | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Laura Kerber Geologist Mark Salvatore, right, takes spectral measurements in Upper Wright Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, with the help of Mike Wyatt. Scientists hope to make similar measurements in the Shackleton Glacier region to calibrate a specially created map that helps identifies rock types from... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4083 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/698f5cf75021ed5770a7c11e65c68cebac8e6fecf4f27adbe81298825cbe4271.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:37 | null | null | If Captain Ahab of Moby Dick literary fame had been a scientist, it might have been an orca and not a sperm whale that drove him to madness. Not because of some antagonistic relationship, but because killer whales have proven to be a tricky animal to study. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2853.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/whale-killer-minke-hunt.jpg | en | null | Type C personality | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: R. Pitman Two Type B killer whales eye a Weddell seal for lunch. Researchers have identified several species of killer whales in recent years based on genetic evidence, as well as morphology and prey preference. Type B killer whales prefer seals as prey.
Type C personality
'Ross Sea' killer whale one of s... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2853 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/859a3dee4edbc06b45cc8f06025938ab0afef211903f3d8f41c91c9d9d98a8af.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:11 | null | null | A method originally developed to find groundwater in Denmark might have research applications in Antarctica, from mapping the geology of a unique valley system and determining the ecological relationships with the subsurface structures to finding geothermal connections between the marine system and an active volcano. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2585.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/skytem_lars_helo_pilot.jpg | en | null | Scratching beneath the surface | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek A helicopter lifts off from the sea ice on McMurdo Sound carrying a transmitter loop capable of creating a magnetic field that can penetrate into the ground. The instrument can tell scientists the kind of material below the surface based on its conductivity or resistivity.
Scratching beneath ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2585 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0a11fe382a6d6ba5c6e02d523812fb66df366d24d12e6d2da436a6d1243f4b88.json |
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"Susan Macgregor",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:46 | null | null | Susan MacGregor doesn't have your typical South Pole winter-over position. Her job takes her daily into an environment of bright lights, high humidity and delightful warmth as operator of the South Pole Food Growth Chamber. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2431.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/pole_tractor.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Susan MacGregor Susan MacGregor is spending the winter at the South Pole Station overseeing the growth chamber, which grows the only fresh fruit and vegetables available to the research station residents for the eight months of isolation.
Cropping up MacGregor returns to the Ice to work in the South Pol... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2431 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/eb02100a3352505c893a4802cda1c3ce0ba98d32ba9d521e9070f1a41e795ce2.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:20 | null | null | Though researchers at McMurdo Station have been studying the Ross Ice Shelf for decades, the seafloor beneath it largely remains a mystery. Scientists with the ROSETTA mapping project are working to fill in one of the largest remaining blank spots on ocean charts. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4204.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/icepod-bertinato.jpg | en | null | An Airborne Look Through the Ice | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Michael Lucibella Flying over the ice below, the deployed IcePod collects data about the bottom of the ocean, the surface of the ice and everything in between.
An Airborne Look Through the Ice
Scientists are working to fill in one of the largest remaining blank spots on ocean charts.
Photo Credit: Michael... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4204 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/add1f61d7e312a096a5767984030384636398e69a953057039893834e9d08da0.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:27:49 | null | null | A decline in the abundance of krill, a food favored by two species of penguins, is the most likely cause for why the seabird populations are suffering along the western Antarctic Peninsula, say researchers in a recent paper. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2414.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek A small Adélie penguin colony on Torgerson Island on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, which is one of the fastest warming places on the planet. Researchers say climate change there is influenced by warming surface waters in the Pacific Ocean.
Food shortage Changes in krill abundan... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2414 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d6e426c4ec78206f0e031c73a0acfd70f5cc6286aa4de42899cb125476dde2cf.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:31:18 | null | null | One of the premiere projects of the International Polar Year (IPY), ANDRILL is a $30 million geological time machine. Using a specialized rig adapted for drilling in the Antarctic, ANDRILL will bore deep into the marine basin to extract a kilometer-long sediment core that will tell scientists about Antarctica's geologi... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1265.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/ANDRILL saw (thumb).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: David Harwood The ANDRILL drilling rig is protected by a shroud. The geological drilling project is under way on the sea ice this year to extract a 1,000-meter-long sediment core that will tell scientists about the continent's geologic past and future role in climate change.
ANDRILL returns to Antarctica
... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=1265 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/127bc43665d39ae0c283f431a3bab4e08229f289b5515f5623dfa2f68678b0cb.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:48 | null | null | Ice cores contain a wealth of information about past climate and environmental conditions, with clues in the form of trapped bubbles of gas and varying concentrations of chemical species and insoluble dust. Paolo Gabrielli wants to improve that history by studying miniscule amounts of metals carried to the ice mainly b... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1491.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Scientist Paolo Gabrielli examines an ice core in the cold storage facility at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center. Gabrielli studies trace and ultra-trace elements in ice cores, miniscule amounts of metals that say something about past environmental conditions and pollution. W... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1491 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/660cbb309ccd69a7fe00c88c3c11834a334407c6b222bca8d49277a82715f339.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:49 | null | null | It’s been about 20 years since the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs initiated a program to recover an ice core from Greenland. Now the U.S. Antarctic Program is in the midst of its most ambitious ice-coring project to date, one that will augment and improve the Greenland climate record. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1590.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Eric Cravens/National Ice Core Lab The shelves of the National Ice Core Lab in Lakewood, Colo., are filled with ice cores, including many from the GISP2 project. Many of the WAIS Divide cores will come here for storage. The WAIS core is the latest piece in understanding the planet's complex climate puzzle... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1590 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a41a615d36e0123fda37578fba00ab80f9d3b9c082d670c6a9370791532ca054.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:43 | null | null | LARISSA brings together more than 30 scientists for one expedition, some working from an ice core camp on the Antarctic Peninsula while most will carry out experiments from a vessel for two months. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1888.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | New Scientific Mode (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Bruce Huber The Drygalski Glacier on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, as seen from the Weddell Sea in February 2005. Previous expeditions to the region haven't included the range of instruments and personnel who will explore the Larsen Embayment in 2010.
New scientific mode LARISSA represents ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1888 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4584aecc662548e3181b826d5d3dc969570558c0d88515721e62485f7f9acf60.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:43 | null | null | Was part of Antarctica once a sort of highway upon which vertebrates, perhaps even early mammals, traversed between South America and Australia? That is just one of the intriguing questions drawing Ross MacPhee to little-visited Livingston Island off the Antarctic Peninsula this austral summer. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1570.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/macphee_sample.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ross MacPhee Scientists, from left, Kate Keeley, Louis Jacobs, Yosuke Nishida and Clare Flemming dig for fossils on Seymour Island December 2007. Ross MacPhee's team had better luck there than on Livingston Island, where he hopes to uncover evidence of mammals more than 100 million years ago.
Bridge to th... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1570 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d79c0ba7b16968f9898c205f20b8e20341a54e1c35ab19fc35ef287b82f9b956.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:19 | null | null | New research published by NOAA scientists suggests a type of Antarctic killer whale migrates north not necessarily to breed or forage but to regenerate skin tissue in a warmer environment, according to new research that documented the first long-distance migration ever reported for orcas. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2542.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/ORCAS1.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Joe Stanford/Antarctic Photo Library Two killer whales breach the surface of the water among bergy bits of ice in McMurdo Sound. New research published by NOAA scientists suggests a type of Antarctic killer whale migrate north not necessarily to breed or forage, but to regenerate skin tissue in a warmer e... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2542 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/31715bc9e46e8577854da3f8b57831bf25394ce1bba7b3799a78e840629670d5.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:13 | null | null | Hundreds of meters below the sea ice sits the continental shelf, home to a unique marine menagerie. How this community will respond to climate change is a story that interests scientists like Craig Smith, David DeMaster and Carrie Thomas. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1715.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/foodbancs_box.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Craig Smith Scientists prepare a box core for deployment off the ARSV Laurence M. Gould in 2008. The device takes samples of sediment and marine life from the seafloor. The researchers use the samples to learn more about what the critters eat, which will help them predict how well the organisms will do as... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1715 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/50c4dbf87afdede6407fe25faed58d4b2d0db240643a1ed1e3ab501c40ba9815.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:51 | null | null | Three years after first visiting the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula to assess its stability in a rapidly changing environment, a team of scientists is headed back to the Larsen C Ice Shelf during the 2011-12 field season one last time to check on its health. The prognosis isn't good. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2545.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | On the shelf | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Konrad Steffen/CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder Graduate student Daniel McGrath installs the ground penetrating radar to a snowmobile at a field camp on the Larsen C Ice Shelf. The radar enables the researchers to map the underside of the ice shelf, where bands of marine water frozen to the bottom o... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2545 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/00090a69b4ab2f612192c41924c776e3f05b14ae362fe86f06f641d8810f129c.json |
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"Dean Hancock",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:29 | null | null | Those not familiar with the workings of large ships may fail to appreciate the challenges involved in keeping to a schedule. That very point was made clear recently, when an unexpected stowaway on the U.S. Antarctic Program research vessel LAURENCE M. GOULD conspired to frustrate all aboard. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2739.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/gould-tire-deck.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Mindy Piuk/Antarctic Photo Library The research vessel LAURENCE M. GOULD sits at the Punta Arenas pier in March 2011. A tight schedule for the ship to return to Punta Arenas, Chile, from Louisiana, this summer proved to be challenging, as an expected "stowaway" on the ship before leaving Port Fourchon too... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2739 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a20c0f88d9b24f5e816abe6f4f474eedf7a62ed9e279c32bf81f0dc74106c48e.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:45 | null | null | A perfect storm of warm temperatures and a big blow of dust caused disruptions at McMurdo Station’s airfield for nearly two months. It started with a wind storm that scoured Black Island in early December. It finally ended in early February with the return of the C-17. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2816.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Dirty snow can be seen around the fuel pits at Pegasus Airfield. A wind storm from Black Island in December deposited a layer of dark mineral dust at the airfield and adjoining snow roads, causing serious melt issues that disrupted transportation through early February.
Bumpy ride
Melt issues... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2816 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7020433f42c5c1c8a56e5abf866d08e764a60c34fc43f1257a23dd85b32016bc.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:20 | null | null | The U.S. Antarctic Program builds a temporary airfield on the sea ice in McMurdo Sound every year for use by both ski-equipped and wheeled aircraft that provide transportation to and from the continent, as well as those that support research to far-flung field camps. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2541.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/mcm_icerunway36.jpg | en | null | On thin ice | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credits: Peter Rejcek On thin ice Airfield rebuilt every year on annual sea ice near McMurdo Station The U.S. Antarctic Program builds a temporary airfield on the sea ice in McMurdo Sound every year for use by both ski-equipped and wheeled aircraft that provide transportation to and from the continent, as well as... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2541 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9b3180dc06ac96b3e48fe64b419ac61953805f141ce7c4b80b74cc5704aef50a.json |
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"Interview Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:43 | null | null | After graduating with a Masters of Fine Arts degree, Susan J. Allspaw Pomeroy did what any other poet and academic would do: She jumped on a research boat to Antarctica to work as a tech writer. More than a dozen years later, Pomeroy published her debut book of poetry about her first love: Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2977.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek McMurdo Station, where poet Susan J. Allspaw Pomeroy wrote two-thirds of the poems for her debut book, Little Oblivion.
Little Oblivion
Debut poetry book by USAP participant a meditative love affair with Antarctica
After graduating with a Masters of Fine Arts degree, Susan J. Allspaw Pomeroy ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2977 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8307624d0dfe6024dcbcd4785a7accb9092c10208b0a76187702d2a005746923.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:16 | null | null | Quick deployment is one of the key components that NASA is after for a space habitat that will shelter astronauts on long-term missions to the moon and beyond to Mars. One leading concept is an inflatable building. A team from NASA brought a terrestrial version of the structure to McMurdo in January to test a number of... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1350.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/lunar_habitat.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek The NASA inflatable lunar habitat took less than an hour to erect. It will remain at McMurdo Station for one year to test how well it does in the elements. NASA engineers in the United States will monitor the building with sensors and cameras.
Taking shelter NASA erects lunar habitat at McMur... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1350 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e88912d7f9cb4f5b320e4289f14467733ad01c132a408f0c5fa11d72c7d5f37f.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:16 | null | null | Ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland and elsewhere in the world serve as a way for scientists to travel back in time to understand past climate. But they only tell part of the story. Ryan Bay and his colleagues send an optical dust logger down the finished holes to peer farther into the ice sheet to glean more details. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1868.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Down the hole | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Henry Malmgren/Antarctic Photo Library The Dark Sector at the South Pole where many of the astrophysical experiments are located. At bottom is the IceCube drill camp, which is building a neutrino detector under the ice. Ryan Bay has sent an optical dust logger down some of the boreholes.
Down the hole Spe... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1868 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8c0784fcf5bb5a6deb7fbdd9ad0790f0ef7abed01be034a140ef117008dea084.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:51 | null | null | New Zealand legend Sir Edmund Hillary died Jan. 11 in an Auckland hospital after a lifetime of adventure and charity work. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1314.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/Hillary flag.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Cpl. Nancy Cox New Zealanders from Scott Base lower their national flag during a brief memorial service on Jan. 11 (local time) for Sir Edmund Hillary, who died earlier that day in an Auckland hospital.
Sir Ed passes away
Legendary explorer and mountaineer left mark on Antarctic history
Sir Edmund Hillary... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1314 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/60c021aba0d7f8a6f7a77c6edb5a443b105447b2d3b208c25c1b08a67706d7ba.json |
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"Cathy Morrell",
"Mcmurdo Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:24 | null | null | The winter solstice doesn't get much respect around the world, except in Antarctica, where those spending the dark, cold months pay homage to the shortest day of the year with various ceremonies and feasts. It's a tradition that dates back to the early Antarctic explorers. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1825.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Midwinter Moment | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: McMurdo Station staff The 2009 Midwinter greeting from McMurdo Station. A tradition of the modern digital age, Antarctic stations e-mail messages and pictures to each other to mark the winter solstice. Other traditions, such as the Midwinter dinner, date back to the early explorers.
Midwinter Moment Short... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1825 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/42a4940bedbe6810e576ff10a668f7f9d5b2a6cba91bfcbc9c5dfe2bd9ab4d33.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:25 | null | null | The cargo vessel chartered to resupply two of the National Science Foundation's research stations in Antarctica seems up to the task based on name alone. The MV OCEAN GIANT arrived at McMurdo Station on Jan. 26, with nearly seven million pounds of supplies. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4119.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/vessels-cargo-truck-milvan.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek
Big load
Cargo operations mark the beginning of the end to 2014-15 Antarctic field season
The operation is so big it's known simply as Vessel.
Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek The U.S. Coast Guard cutter POLAR STAR, left, escorts the MV OCEAN GIANT through the sea ice near McMurdo Station on Jan. 2... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4119 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/3f8f4ecc0f46e2327e0fdd0de94db4426bff04094b95a75b881b92c4ef1a0064.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:45 | null | null | A new year and an old century merged at the South Pole on Jan. 1, 2011. U.S. Antarctic Program personnel gathered at 90 degrees south latitude on the first day of the new year to unveil and place the geographic marker for 2011. This year marks the 100th anniversary of when a group of Norwegian adventurers first reached... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2332.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/polemarker2011_triumph.JPG | en | null | A century later | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Robert Schwarz The 2011 South Pole geographic marker is in the shape of a sextant, an instrument used for navigation by early explorers. This year marks the centenary of the achievement of the South Pole by a team of Norwegian adventurers led by Roald Amundsen. The bronze marker was designed and fabricate... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2332 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/1ea08fe43e3129c1a2090c3730756f98cb03a544ffea46987d1b3269850c7106.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:31 | null | null | At first glance, Kevin Field does not look like someone who should be reminiscing about “the old days” in Antarctica. But the shaggy-haired lead mechanic at McMurdo Station has spent 18 summer and three winter seasons in the Antarctic since 1980, when he came down to the Ice for the first time. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1220.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/kevin field (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Kevin Field works as a lead mechanic for the McMurdo Station heavy shop. He first came to the Ice in 1980 at age 20. A native of Christchurch, New Zealand, Field grew up around the U.S. Antarctic Program and said he always knew he’d come here some day.
Never far afield from the Ice
Kevin Fiel... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1220 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/fdf9ce1fb1ac8eb802c400989d3b16dc297b3e44a4210eb91024bd975cf81fc3.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:39 | null | null | The New York Air Natural Guard began a yearlong engagement at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, N.Y., in August to raise public awareness about its mission in the U.S. Antarctic Program, as well as draw attention to the ongoing International Polar Year (IPY). | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1514.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/hercs.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jordan Dickens/Antarctic Photo Library Four New York Air National Guard ski-equipped LC-130s sit on the sea ice runway. The planes are the workhorses of the U.S. Antarctic Program, and the star of a year-long exhibit and program at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, N.Y., to promote the Guard's mission in A... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1514 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/669ac3a30e92837b15e508122f80975f01927177bcfe4bca312f38628dfea4ee.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:10 | null | null | A science team surveying benthic communities in McMurdo Sound believes skinny is better when trying to reach remote areas below the sea ice without a lot of fuss. That’s why the team developed SCINI – a Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1270.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/StacyFlying (thumb).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Mindy Bell (PolarTREC 2007) At left, Marcus Kolb, Nick Huerta and Bryan Newbold assemble SCINI before a deployment. At right, Bob Zook and Huerta prepare to launch SCINI below the sea ice.
Fitting In
Remotely operated vehicle takes researchers to new places under the ice
The backlash against “super-sizing... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1270 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f03fe0f53380ea3a0ebc1c8127f86223e83e94824584ce8f8a21dea328b3abfd.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:51 | null | null | The first plane to touch down at McMurdo Station’s Pegasus Airfield in several months landed on Aug. 15 (local time), ending the winter isolation for 141 people. The U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III carried 51 people south to the main hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2887.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Alasdair Turner U.S. Antarctic Program participants exit a U.S. Air Force C-17 at Pegasus Airfield on Aug. 15. The flight carried 51 people to McMurdo Station, which has been in winter isolation for months.
On-time arrival
First flight since May lands at McMurdo Station's Pegasus Airfield
The first plane ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2887 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f6820b7c5daebae68fc9f0efcb805da64d597fc98c72f3e9b9e66dcc13823b28.json |
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"Mike Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:52 | null | null | To the casual observer, mid-June may not seem like the ideal time to explore the science of ancient ice. However, last month, as the hot sun beat down outside, a dozen geoscience professors donned boots and thick red parkas to brave sub-zero freezers and learn the secrets embedded in ice many thousands of years old, fr... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4169.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images6/icecorefreezer.jpg | en | null | Empowering Educators at the School of Ice | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Mike Lucibella Rows of insulated tubes store ice cores dating back hundreds of thousands of years at the National Ice Core Laboratory’s freezer archive.
Empowering Educators at the School of Ice
U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office Offers Educators a Close-Up Look at Ice Core Science
To the casual observer, m... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4169 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ba68df7e9dc9cdfd63c63ecd07c5098672d4972daa1a710195cb02a5750f4663.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:29 | null | null | In the early 1990s, Bill Fraser's work had focused on penguins and a few other seabirds. His field team assistant Donna Patterson-Fraser wondered why he didn’t also work with the giant petrels. Now, more than 15 years later, their project with the huge predator-scavengers is the only one like it in the world. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2040.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/birders_wideshot.JPG | en | null | Birds of a Feather (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Donna Patterson-Fraser handles a giant petrel chick on Humble Island off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. She and other members of Bill Fraser's field team closely monitor the huge scavenger-predators as part of a larger ecological study.
Birds of a feather Researcher finds special bond ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2040 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/12c696ca160992dd9eda2d6c33521bc58ff0f094fcdf4a2baf225500930c30cf.json |
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"The National Science Foundation"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:37 | null | null | The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing support to help launch a $21 million interdisciplinary initiative involving 11 institutions across the United States to study the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4070.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Steve Rupp/Antarctic Photo Library Sponges in McMurdo Sound, which is part of the Southern Ocean ecosystem. The National Science Foundation announced this week a $21 million initiative to study the Southern Ocean, a program called Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling.
High-water mar... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4070 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8bfd0e827198e11475f82cb29deaff412132a7595c935d772097f083255321c0.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:20 | null | null | Four Boulder, Colo., graduate students will go to extremes this year when they head to Antarctica for a month of field research. Their hope is to gain new experiences related to their own research interests that they can also use in the classroom to engage elementary and middle school children. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1996.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Susan Whitehead Kallin Tea, second from right, hikes with students and teachers in Rocky Mountain National Park. Tea and three other CU-Boulder graduate students will work with scientists in Antarctica this season to improve their research and outreach skills.
Extreme outreach CU-Boulder grad students h... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1996 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/fd4eaed4021c3b6653fd7911708429579e3aeb1805480f08c421abfedac467bc.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:48 | null | null | It’s been about a dozen years since Howard Conway and colleagues visited Antarctica’s Roosevelt Island to make measurements that allowed them to estimate the deglaciation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Now, Conway will return with an international team of scientists to refine those measurements to understand how the ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2254.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Roosevelt Island | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Howard Conway A field camp at Scott Glacier on the Antarctic continent takes a beating during a snowstorm. Howard Conway and his team will use a similar set up during their fieldwork on Roosevelt Island to take measurements using radar and GPS to learn about the deglaciation history of the Ross Sea Embaym... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2254 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/305a613c0f6c71094cd5876afd4daf9008800b38aabea67392920056c8d08ab4.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:36 | null | null | The Arctic crossed a disturbing threshold this past spring. And the Antarctic isn’t too far behind. NOAA scientists recently announced that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere around Barrow, Alaska, reached 400 parts per million in April, the first time the greenhouse gas has been that high at a remot... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2674.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/ARO_SIGN.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ryan R. Neely III/Antarctic Photo Library A clean air-monitoring instrument at the South Pole Station measures for CO2 and other atmospheric constituents. NOAA scientists recently reported CO2 hit 400 ppm in the Arctic. Researchers expect the South Pole's Atmospheric Research Observatory to be the last pl... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2674 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e57abaca0d10293a59c3858b3bdddd700a4be1d3b881542ffe3a16869f73cc1a.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:02 | null | null | Most of the fish that inhabit the Southern Ocean have enjoyed a highly stable, if icy cold, environment for millions of years. Climate change threatens to not only raise the heat on these so-called icefish in the coming decades and centuries, but also alter the pH of the seawater. Will that push a species already livin... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2635.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Not just a shell game | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Various species of Antarctic icefish, which have evolved special adaptations over millions of years living in cold polar waters, sit in an aquarium tank at McMurdo Station. Scientist Sean Place is testing whether changes in ocean temperature and pH pose a threat to these unique organisms.
Not... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2635 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c07632f5d241078be42dc13f5de1f4844b295288bbf3bd256026cbb9e931fe9c.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:27 | null | null | It’s the biggest celebration for the year that still hasn’t ended more than three years after it began. This month more than 2,000 scientists and others will gather in Oslo, Norway, to bring an official end to the International Polar Year. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2143.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/HELOLANDINGNBP.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Adam Jenkins/Antarctic Photo Library A helicopter prepares to land on the deck of the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer during an expedition earlier this year around the Antarctic Peninsula for an IPY-funded project called LARISSA.
Last hurrah World's biggest polar science conference to celebrate IPY ac... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2143 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9adae81010f5f14ce547ef879646cd63f60381439abd23a126326c62b0b63cce.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:53 | null | null | Led by scientists from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, IcePod bundles together a suite of instruments into a capsule designed to provide new details about structures above, within and below Antarctica’s ice-covered surface. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4143.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/LoadingGravityMeter.jpg | en | null | Good things come in small packages | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Winnie Chu/Columbia University Flown aboard an LC-130 over the Ross Ice Shelf, IcePod bundles together a suite of instruments into a capsule that will provide new details about structures above, within and below Antarctica’s ice-covered surface.
Good things come in small packages
IcePod bundles together a... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4143 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/10496e20e05d4bdbd5a5237696e7e05d1c378ff64926c2ca926308ed7755cf19.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:18:46 | null | null | Site of a former joint U.S. and New Zealand research station, Cape Hallett is home to a huge colony of Adélie penguins, and a diverse range of lichens, moss and tiny invertebrates. It’s also become a new model for how the U.S. Antarctic Program would like to approach conservation of Antarctic resources in the future. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2076.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/hallett_helo.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jessie Jenkins Kevin Pettway, the lead environmental specialist at Raytheon Polar Services Co., counts penguins on Seabee Hook to collect data for a revised Cape Hallett ASPA plan, as well as for ongoing Adélie research in Antarctica. Pettway's team conducted the most thorough assessment ever of an ASPA.
... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2076 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/54e233a1f7904dcdf64fef2c724eb0cc82d43203a384be8b3b7a7ea3e0493743.json |
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"Elaine Hood",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:10 | null | null | Even though though Elaine Hood married a chemist, it wasn’t until two years later, when she met a Russian solar physicist, when it dawned on her that it really is the scientists who impress her the most. As she admits "If you see a 50-year old lady chasing a scientist down the hallway, begging for an autograph, it may ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1718.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Henry Kaiser Sam Bowser studies single-celled organisms called foraminifera, or forams, in Antarctica. USAP participants who work on the Ice have the opportunity to meet some of the world's leading polar researchers, observes one fan of science.
Rock stars of science One USAP participant admits to being a... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1718 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2603fec0f5b7f3d8215d35086cbe23c1e7c585c4c0ef951398564d4a1f7d4263.json |
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"Jim Mastro",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:04:42 | null | null | The year was 1979. Of the many people who stepped off a plane that year, four of them are still working here 35 years later. For all of them, it was a year they will never forget. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4098.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/rick-campbell-traverse-tractor.jpg | en | null | Those were the Days (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Diver Rob Robbins, left, prepares to lead Lily Simonson on a dive into McMurdo Sound. Robbins first came to Antarctica in 1979 and has been back every year since – one of four people still working in the U.S. Antarctic Program 35 years later.
Those were the days
Four USARP — er, USAP — partic... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4098 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8a2649dac419b942bddeefbb35df283cf2e18325f880068af28a7ec6cb293b7a.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:05 | null | null | It’s not hard to get excited about the food at Palmer Station. The menu would challenge the most ambitious five-star restaurants in the United States. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2046.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Cooking on ice | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Stacie Murray prepares dinner in the Palmer Station kitchen. A classically trained French chef, Murray also loves to cook northern Italian food and says, "I like cooking for an enthusiastic crowd."
Cooking on ice Palmer chefs keep station personnel well fed with five-star cuisine at budget pr... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2046 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4884366b362e47b4d337fe3f95e1c69b55b9d511e46942026fde9b405e205f43.json |
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"The Earth Institute At Columbia University"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:55 | null | null | Natural releases of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean due to shifting wind patterns could have amplified global warming at the end of the last ice age — and could be repeated as manmade warming proceeds, according to a new paper in the journal Science. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1730.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/BIG_BERG.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Robert Jon Brack/Antarctic Photo Library A glacier afloat in the Southern Ocean near the Antarctic Peninsula. A new study by scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory says shifting winds appear to pull CO2 out of the ocean and into the atmosphere
Shifting winds New study says ch... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1730 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/04c3d6ce218fa0e8cd08a257ab31ee3d2baa2c100c62b68dbc2ac2f37c389a95.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:44 | null | null | Google Street View has gone off road – way off road. The Internet giant recently unveiled its latest batch of panoramic imagery for its Google Maps and Google Earth applications that include Antarctica. The imagery was captured with the help of the NSF-funded Polar Geospatial Center. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2956.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jean Pennycook PGC cartographer Cole Kelleher walks through the Adélie penguin colony at Cape Royds. A Google Street View camera is strapped onto his back. The Internet giant recently released a new series of Street View images of Antarctica shot by PGC.
Off road
PGC provides stunning new imagery for Goog... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2956 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e4e31e9a0a58657cde292e760dc5af435cef3f55aee85408f7beee54adf0fe8c.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T12:50:51 | null | null | This isn’t the sort of summer camp where you send the kids. Rather, Summer Camp became known as the collection of Jamesways and other buildings at the South Pole Station that housed additional personnel when population exceeded permanent housing. Now Summer Camp is going away. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4043.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Robert Schwarz/Antarctic Photo Library An aerial view of Summer Camp at the South Pole Station in February 2011, about a year before its use was discontinued. Most the buildings are Jamesway, a type of Quonset hut developed during World War II for polar conditions.
Frontier living
Historic Jamesways have ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4043 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a8251d4148ba5c9bff29bedd2c67cc96c36b81f96db8e1197893b449dacdda45.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:12 | null | null | McMurdo Station was never meant to be the New York City of Antarctica. It was established in the 1950s as a naval airfield. It continued to evolve over the decades to become the primary U.S. research station. Now, a master plan has emerged that will help guide new construction over the next 10 to 15 years. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2947.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/mcm-master-plan-main-bldg.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Reinhart Piuk/Antarctic Photo Library McMurdo Station was founded in the mid-1950s and grew over the decades to include more than 100 buildings. The National Science Foundation has commissioned a master plan to completely redesign Antarctica's largest research station.
Master plan
New blueprint proposes c... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2947 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8bf6d2abe70af66f540f6e51dffac5c80ae7556cc10b00046fad73a07bcc0364.json |
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"Steven Profaizer"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:36 | null | null | Working as a courier at McMurdo Station transforms all of town into a circuit workout. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1216.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/couriers.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Steven Profaizer LaVonne Hynes Weber, left, and her sister Lorraine Weber work as McMurdo’s couriers. They rotate weekly between running local mail around town and distributing mail in the mail room.
Couriers keep the mail moving
Working as a courier at McMurdo Station transforms all of town into a circui... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1216 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4904bf7827194512e59b8b9d1cd345a894a19724f716e478965e6a0745ea8836.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:47 | null | null | Cosmologists operating a new telescope at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station hope to put the crucial moment after the big bang into focus – and, in the process, nudge the study of physics into a new era. They believe BICEP has the muscle to give them that push. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1237.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/bicep (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Steve Martaindale The BICEP telescope made its first observations of the cosmic microwave background this past winter with hardly a hiccup. The telescope received upgrades this summer and will be back at work in 2007.
BICEP adds muscle to South Pole research Telescope to measure the polarization of the co... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=1237 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9ecba0082f6ac6f5b21b03d6ef1a89d851266f9c1c5337ba5ea10fff88a9e806.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T12:58:00 | null | null | There have been few pauses between a string of relentless storms in October that brought strong winds and snow to the Ross Island region since the first planes of summer arrived. The bad weather may have a relationship with the phenomenon known as the El Niño and Southern Oscillation. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4087.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/mcm-storm-red-parka.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: John Catto/Alpenglow Pictures Storms in October brought high winds that caused blowing snow at McMurdo Station more often than not through most of the month. The bad weather may have had a relationship with the phenomenon known as the El Niño and Southern Oscillation.
Whiteout
Blustery, baleful weather at... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4087 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f05b70558407258ef6940305b76439928d7c6cb8d21353aa19bc141403e841e7.json |
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"Susanne Grieve",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:47 | null | null | Climbing a mountain, rappelling down a crevasse, and preserving artifacts from two of the most famous explorers in human history, is not how Susanne Grive would typically describe her summer, but this is exactly what she did during a seven-month journey in Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1714.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/Discovery%20Hut.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Antarctic Heritage Trust A brass Primus stove before, left, and after treated by conservators during the 2008 winter at Scott Base. The stove is an artifact from one of the historic huts left behind from the early explorers of Antarctica.
Saving historic sites Conservator spends winter in Antarctica to he... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1714 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e1b7f9fb7ce15b0febd7c1266ac4f25db371caf67f714dd744c9547806b81ea8.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:09 | null | null | A pair of studies published this month in the prestigious journal Science link ozone depletion over the Antarctic to powerful changes in atmospheric and ocean circulation. Such changes may have global implications, from altering precipitation patterns to weakening the sequestration of carbon dioxide in the ocean. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2811.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/ARTHURHARBORVIEW.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Perri Barbour/Antarctic Photo Library Twilight in Arthur Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula. Climate change is particularly acute in this region of the world. Scientists have linked the ozone hole with changes in atamospheric and oceanic circulation that have global implications.
Making waves
Two new studies lin... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2811 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c1a59b841bc9e419d9bb6a86b688cf4380f4afcab8d4c73ac7b9d9a9a0459bc3.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:30 | null | null | One of the most frigid places on the planet appears to be an ideal location to help protect humans living and working in the cold of outer space against radiation bursts from the sun. Neutron detectors at the South Pole Station appear to offer an early-warning system to detect damaging radiation associated with solar s... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2720.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Early warning system | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Patrick Cullis/Antarctic Photo Library An aurora over the South Pole Station during the winter season. A pair of neutron detectors located at the station appears to offer a reasonably reliable early-warning system to detect damaging radiation associated with solar storms.
Early warning system Neutron dete... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2720 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/194f8db08795b4f95bd9330572f3ba394dcdc46c03c484ce07a986d20ec66023.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:42 | null | null | Prince Albert II of Monaco made a month-long visit to Antarctica to view the impact of climate change at the Earth's southern tip. His visit included stops at McMurdo and South Pole stations. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1687.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/prince.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Scot Jackson Prince Albert II of Monaco stops at the geographic South Pole during a tour of Antarctica in January. The 50-year-old prince made a month-long journey to view the effects of climate change firsthand. The expedition also included a stop at McMurdo Station. A royal visit Prince Albert II of Mon... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1687 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/083a10a9028b59c8009353efcae71c9887ee98c50b6990bfdebd55aa3c612887.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:14 | null | null | There is an underground movement underway in Antarctica. This particular movement doesn’t involve radical political parties or fringe music festivals, though the idea of super salty water moving through the shallow subsurface of the Dry Valleys may eventually shake up established orthodoxy. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4140.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/bonney-joe-camera-sm.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Researcher Joe Levy sets up a digital thermal-imaging camera to study water tracks as they move under the soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The water tracks may be similar to a phenomenon that occurs on Mars, offering a useful analog for studying the red planet.
Underground movement
Water tra... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4140 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/feedc73d20416756c40e357728f51c1ebad0222cb477b0631b02cbfb20164b6f.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:32 | null | null | The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest warming spots on the planet. Now scientists believe at least one species of king crab is slowly creeping from the deep ocean habitats onto the continental slope as the waters slowly warm, threatening marine communities. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2305.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/crab_paralomis_A.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Sven Thatje An image of Paralomis elongata, one of about 17 species of crabs that inhabit the Southern Ocean. Investigators believe at least one species of shell-crushing king crab may soon make its way onto the continental slope, threatening the seafloor communities that have evolved over millions of yea... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2305 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e2a611b5678ba2f00c52e1e5d0e46858ca0c2d2578c6f7e5c4cc6ccd8cd6adb6.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:48 | null | null | Krill are already facing significant challenges in the fast-changing climate of the Antarctic Peninsula. Some scientists are wondering if they will face even greater stress in the future, as the oceans become more acidic. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4040.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/Saba-respirometry.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Abigail Bockus Buckets of freshly caught Antarctic krill are transported by crane from the research vessel LAURENCE M. GOULD to Palmer Station. Scientists at the station used the krill to study the effects of ocean acidification and higher water temperature on krill physiology and behavior.
Stressed out
R... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4040 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/1540e20f88a7ec2373a546d9420aed04da0003364df3e415c108cfc0f05bde38.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:35 | null | null | Sea ice around Antarctica appears headed for another record year. NSIDC, partly funded by the National Science Foundation, reported that the five-day average for sea ice extent around the southernmost continent last month had already surpassed 20 million square kilometers for the first time in the modern satellite reco... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4080.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Bob DeValentino/Antarctic Photo Library Sea ice begins to break up in front of Palmer Station. Sea ice extent around Antarctica is headed for a new record, according to NSIDC.
Expansion
Antarctic sea ice headed for another record year for extent around the continent
Sea ice around Antarctica appears heade... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4080 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c45b951d418481adc953f728a290ea70394410a83e12fbe214dfd82d311608fc.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:32 | null | null | W. Barclay Kamb, a long time professor at the California Institute of Technology and a prominent Antarctic researcher, died at his home on April 21, 2011. He was 79. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2422.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/KambWBarclay.jpg | en | null | W. Barclay Kamb | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Tony Wendricks/Ice Coring & Drilling Services Drillers use the Kamb-Engelhardt Hot Water Drill in Antarctica, an instrument partly named after W. Barclay Kamb, a leading glaciologist from Caltech who passed away in April. Kamb was instrumental in the study of ice streams, fast moving rivers of ice.
W. Bar... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2422 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c25af3806c3899bade4e692182e55c5cdb459747aebca502446261e0dd60c75d.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:44 | null | null | A handful of school teachers across the nation are joining Antarctic science teams as part of an International Polar Year (IPY) program that pairs educators and scientists – Polar Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating, or PolarTREC, for short. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1289.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/Mindy Bell (thumb).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: SIMBA Web site (inset) and Sarah Anderson/PolarTREC Teacher Sarah Anderson (inset) spent nearly two months aboard the Research Vessel Icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer as part a multi-national science team investigating sea ice ecosystems. Anderson is one of a handful of teachers participating in a program c... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1289 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/574347168a92958a5308852f09aed4c24b00c8d40d8213cd993066f3f535036c.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:02 | null | null | The Antarctic ice is home to stuff “not of this Earth.” Each year, scientists travel to remote sections of the frozen continent to look for these pieces of outer space. They’re hunting for meteorites; the charred remains of asteroids and other space debris that fell to Earth. This year, after five weeks out in the fiel... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4241.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images7/ansmet-traverse.jpg | en | null | Little Pieces of Outer Space on the Frozen Continent | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Constantine Tsang The ANSMET team looks on as mountaineer John Schutt uses sterilized tongs to pick up and take a careful look at a meteorite before bagging it for later study.
Little Pieces of Outer Space on the Frozen Continent
How scientists recover fragments of the ancient solar system at the bottom o... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4241 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/124ff8f3869d380c0c7c659587014a912d435a7923aa1cc2dbaeaf7b7ad52de6.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:51 | null | null | Polynyas, areas of open water in sea ice, play an important role in global ocean circulation and heat exchange in the atmosphere. A team of scientists will brave frigid spring in Antarctica to learn more about the phenomenon using unammed aerial aircraft that have been used to fly into hurricanes. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1769.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/poly_plane.jpg | en | null | Pulse on Polynyas | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Aerosonde Pty Ltd An Aerosonde UAV in flight over the Arctic. John Cassano and his team will use the unmanned aircraft to study atmospheric conditions over polynyas in Antarctica this spring. The open areas in sea ice play a critical role in ocean circulation and exchange of heat in the atmosphere.
Pulse ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1769 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d9492fc71fccbaba2b8721cdf42c99336c9bcf78f15a9e02bc3946ef1bde1b45.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:37 | null | null | This season marks The Antarctic Sun's 10th year as the U.S. Antarctic Program’s official news source for everything you wanted to know about Antarctica, the cutting edge science that takes place, and the people who make it happen. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1262.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/Anniversary picture (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter West (left) and Andrew Colhoun The Antarctic Sun has covered cutting edge science for a decade, beginning with the Cape Roberts Project (right) in 1997 and currently the ANDRILL project. Today, as then, scientists are searching for sediment records to better understand the continent's geologic past ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1262 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0436b52304b8c3b5b1b6b9be6e04498f75b59b31350d7427002bccc4d317f48b.json |
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