The University of Texas at Austin Office of Public Affairs is providing the following news release from the recently held West Antarctic Links to Sea-Level Estimation (WALSE) Workshop. The article will also be posted in the "News Releases" section of the Office of Public Affairs Web site. 28th March, 2007 Statement: Thinning of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Demands Improved Monitoring to Reduce Uncertainty over Potential Sea-Level Rise AUSTIN, Texas-Polar ice experts from Europe and the United States, meeting to pursue greater scientific consensus over the fate of the world's largest fresh water reservoir, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, conclud...

ANDRILL is a USD 30 million multinational sedimentary drilling program to recover a history of paleoenvironmental changes in Antarctica. It will guide our understanding of the speed, size and frequency of past and future glacial and interglacial changes in the Antarctic region, and test global linkages between climate changes in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. On 16 December 2006, the ANDRILL program drilled to a new record depth of 1,285 metres below the seafloor from a site on the Ross Ice Shelf near Scott Base in Antarctica, making it the most successful Antarctic drilling program to date in terms o...

Duration: 3 years PhD in Polar Sciences Work location: University of Ferrara, Italy and, partially, at Milano and Varese University (Italy). Tutor: Dr PhD Nicoletta Cannone (University of Ferrara) Requirements: The candidates must provide a second level degree at least a 4 years degree, documented polar experience, specialization in Botany and fluent English (the learning of elemental Italian could be useful) and are invited to contact and send their curriculum vitae to Dr Nicoletta Cannone to the e-mail address:

I-TASC FOR THE INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR Friday March 30, 2007 : I-TASC settles for two years at Espace Mendes-France, Poitiers, France I-TASC is a decentralized network of individuals and organisations working collaboratively in the fields of art, engineering, science and technology on interdisciplinary development and tactical deployment of renewable energy, waste recycling systems, sustainable architecture and open-format, open-source media. I-TASC is a lichen-like structure sharing and integrating local knowledge, resources and skills across six continents in order to symbiotically engage with common issues concerning the air, ocean, earth and space. The science centre Espace Mendes-France and Ellipse join the I-TASC project to ...

The National Centre for Antarctic & Ocean Research (NCAOR), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India & WWF-India organised a public lecture at National Centre for Antarctic & Ocean Research (NCAOR), Goa & Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on March 1 2007 to celebrate the launch of IPY. Further information about the New Delhi launch can be found on the WWF-India website and the NCAOR website. As part of the IPY celebrations, the WWF-India with NCAOR, Ministry of Earth Sciences will be undertaking a series of outreach activities with schools as well as a series of public lectures t...

The Frozen Five expedition team will be attempting to make a complete crossing of the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard from March to mid-June 2007. Our expedition team composes 5 young geoscientists (glaciology, geology, geophysics, biology, meteorology), aged 22-29 years, all with relevant Arctic experience from studying at least one year at the University of Svalbard. The actual expedition starts on March 29 at 12:45 in Longyearbyen, the "capital" of Svalbard. The planned return date is June 14, to the same location. The route, measuring some 1,000 km, will be completed on skis using our own power. All our gear will be carried on special sledges, known as pulks. We will all pull our own sledge(s), weighing about 100 kg each. The route is divided into 5 stages, with a food...

On March the 22nd, at the University of Alaska Anchorage, there will be an IPY launch and presentation of results from IPY project "Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA)". SLiCA is an endorsed IPY project (# 386) and presenting results from SLiCA has been seen as an opportunity to focus both on the peoples of the Arctic and Northern communities and the start of the International Polar Year. This is the first release of results from SLiCA comparing living conditions among the Inuit in Northern Alaska (the Inupiat settlement region), the four Inuit Settlement regions in Canada and Greenland as well as the indigenous peoples of Chukotka, Russia. For more information, please see the related ...

On March the 22nd, at the University of Alaska Anchorage, there will be an IPY launch and presentation of results from IPY project "Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA)". SLiCA is an endorsed IPY project (# 386) and presenting results from SLiCA has been seen as an opportunity to focus both on the peoples of the Arctic and Northern communities and the start of the International Polar Year. This is the first release of results from SLiCA comparing living conditions among the Inuit in Northern Alaska (the Inupiat settlement region), the four Inuit Settlement regions in Canada and Greenland as well as the indigenous peoples of Chukotka, Russia. For more information, please see the related ...

An IPY National Committee for Bulgaria was established on September 1st 2006. This Committee is chaired by Prof. Dr. Christo Pimpirev and other members include Prof. Dr. Boyan Biolchev, Dr. Nikola Petkov, Assoc. Prof. Nesho Chipev, Assoc. Prof. Dimo Dimov, Assoc. Prof . Rosica Kenderova and Dipl. geol. Gergana Lapteva. The Bulgarian IPY Committee launched the celebration of IPY with a written statement/declaration which was accepted by the Bulgarian Parliament on 21st February 2007. For more information about the Bulgarian initiatives, please see the Bulgarian IPY National Committee website or email the Bulgarian IPY National Committee This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

It may not show on this photo, but August 22nd in Antarctica was cold! I'm not in the picture here, because I'm taking it, but trust me, I was just as cold as everyone else. My crew and I had arrived two days prior on an NSF Antarctic Artists and Writers Program grant to shoot a film for four months, and we were already hard at work. Cameraman Sylvestre Guidi, and sound man Richard Fleming are filming Dr. Jennifer Mercer from the University of Wyoming's Department of Atmospheric Science, and Wiesje Mooiweer, a graduate student who was part of Jennifer's field team. This was Jennifer's fifth season on the Ice - and her first as co-PI of the project, which has been measuring the ozone hole over the continent for 20 years. I set out to make this film to put a human face on the scien...