Live Earth concerts will be held around the world. Headliners for the London Concert will be Madonna, the Beastie Boys and Black Eyed Peas joined by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Keane, Foo Fighters and others. In East Rutherford, New Jersey artists will include Bon Jovi, Dave Matthews Band, Kanye West, Rihanna, John Mayer, Smashing Pumpkins and Fall Out Boy. Other concerts will be in China, South Africa, Australia, Toyko and Brazil. Organizers have promised an event in Antarctica - but no word yet on where. These concerts start a campaign called Save Our Selves (SOS). The full story can be found at cnn.com ...

The Gimli Connection to the Arctic and Antarctic (EoI 1186) project is sponsored by the New Iceland Heritage Museum (NIHM). It looks into the history of our area to discover the connections with the Arctic and Antarctic regions of planet Earth. Called New Iceland before Manitoba was extended north, we are close, geographically, to the Arctic. However, some thought we would have a problem finding a connection to the Antarctic. Not so. We learned that sled dogs from the west shore of Lake Winnipeg went with two Antarctic explorers, Shackleton and Byrd. The research project was on. We hope to educate our patrons, our school kids, and our summer visitors, as we have educated ourselves. We have two display windows at NIHM with artefacts and displays and two looseleaf binders full of informatio...

Join experienced educators from around the world for an interactive, cross-disciplinary workshop on Global Warming, its effects on the Arctic and Antarctic, and the scientific and cultural program associated with the International Polar Year. August 13-15, 2007 Science Museum of Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota Explorer Will Steger will present visual evidence of Global Warming from his Arctic and Antarctic expeditions and invite educators to join his 2008 Global Warming 101 Expeditions to the ends of the Earth. Educators will receive a toolkit of resources, also available free for download from www.globalwarming101.com and www.ipy.org following the Summer Institute. The workshop will include:

ARCUS is accepting applications from Masters and PhD students for travel scholarships to attend the 19th Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum on 23-24 May 2007, in Washington, DC. The focus of this year's Arctic Forum is: "Water in the Arctic: International Collaborations and Understanding Environmental Change." Application Deadline: Monday, 23 April 2007 Jointly hosted by ARCUS and the Embassy of Sweden, the Arctic Forum features a diverse and international range of perspectives on the state of knowledge of the hydrological cycle in the circumpolar Arctic, gaps in our knowledge, and research and poli...

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has partnered with eight science and natural history museums across the United States to bring the stories of International Polar Year science expeditions to a broad audience. This education and outreach project, titled "Live from the Poles: A Multimedia Educational Experience", is funded by the US National Science Foundation. During four scientific expeditions to the polar regions, a professional photographer and science writer will chronicle the process of conducting scientific fieldwork "on the ice" through stunning still photographs, insightful written essays, podcast audio interviews, and video clips posted to the educational ...

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...

Exploratorium Webcast with the South Pole: Celebrating the International Polar Year 10:30 PM PDT, March 30, 2007 http://www.exploratorium.edu/poles In a special live Webcast, educators at the Exploratorium will connect with scientists and engineers at the South Pole to kick off the International Polar Year, 2007-9. We'll talk about the history of IPY, including the IGY of 1957-8 which established the first permanent research station at the South Pole. We'll also check in with scientists spending the winter in the coldest, darkest science location in the world. They'll give updates on the IceCube neutrino telescope and the brand-new 10-meter South Pol...

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...

In the Windows Around the World program, we are using web cameras to collect visual images that are used as data. These images are stored in a database and can be used to see changes in day length through out the year in various places around the world. In the attached handout, I have created a matching excercise that lets students see the changes in Arctic day light and to practice using pie graphs. This worksheet is designed primarily for 4th-6th grades but it could be modified for older and younger students. If you wish to see other filmstrips, you can view them by going to the "Weather Archive" section of the site, located under the "Teachers' Resouces". In a daily filmstrip,...

In the spirit of celebrating and commemorating the March 1, 2007 launch of the International Polar Year (IPY) the entire community of the United States Palmer Station, located on Anvers Island, Western Antarctic Peninsula, is pleased to present to this photograph, “Palmer Station Dives into the IPY”. Everyone on station on 10 March, 2007 is featured in the photograph. Leading marine researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are among the first U.S. teams diving into the icy Antarctic waters during the International Polar Year. The team, working out of Palmer Station, is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. It includes veteran Antarctic researchers and UAB biologists Charles Amsler, Ph.D., and James McC...