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Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:32
Global POP: an schools investigation into fish worldwide
We have the great pleasure of inviting your school to participate in a global project during the International Polar Year 2007-2008. We want to focus on the fact that many of the toxic chemicals we produce in centralised areas will be transported by wind and sea current to the polar regions. Many of the chemicals, like dioxins, are defined as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). They are fat soluble and bioaccumulate in the food web. Therefore they can be a problem for all living species in polar regions. In the project the students will play a key role and learn how to do real science together with scientists. In the project students will catch local fish and send a filet sample to the laboratory in Norway. A detailed description of the project can be downloaded in this ...
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:44
ICED-IPY Publication
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...
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Monday, 16 April 2007 22:40
Status and Challenges of the IPY 2007-8 Programme
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
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Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:00
'The Arctic In Change' Exhibition
The Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland is pleased to announce the opening of its fully renewed permanent exhibition on 18th of April, 2007, in Arktikum house in Rovaniemi. The exhibition opening is one of the highlights of Finnish IPY activities. "The Arctic in Change" exhibition offers the visitors a journey through the Arctic world today. The exhibition promotes the natural beauty and the cultural richness of the Arctic, while it informs the visitors about the ongoing rapid social and environmental changes occurring in the fragile Arctic. Set up in a friendly environment, the exhibition combines multimedia shows, interactive stations, artefacts and photo enlargements. The exhibition revolves around the ongoing changes in the Arctic and illuminate...
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:57
ARCUS Student Travel Scholarship Program
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...
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:46
KSAT provides near real-time satellite imagery over the Arctic Ocean
Until today any journey in the ice-infested waters of the Arctic Ocean was a journey into the unknown with no up-to-date detailed map of the ice conditions readily available in such a remote region of the world. Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) are now able to provide the latest satellite image from the European Space Agency satellite, Envisat and the Canadian Radarsat-1 satellite to any International Polar Year (IPY) expedition in the Arctic Ocean. Users will be able to connect to KSAT in Troms
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Sunday, 08 April 2007 21:37
Live from the Poles tells the stories of science on ice
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 ...
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Wednesday, 04 April 2007 22:51
IPY Overview for NSTA
An IPY Overview Presentation given by Dr Rhian Salmon at the National Science Teachers Association Conference in St Louis, USA, March 31st 2007.
You can download the presentation in a variety of formats. Each of these is compressed as a .zip file to make the file size smaller.
slides and presenters notes PDF (72MB)
slides only PDF (71MB)
Quick Time videos of sections of the presentation... interactive so you can click a mouse when you want the next slide.
You may need to ...
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Wednesday, 04 April 2007 17:02
IPY Opening Ceremony Presentation
You can download Dr David Carlson's IPY Opening Ceremony Presentation: The Science of IPY 2007-8, in a variety of formats. Each of these is compressed as a .zip file to make the file size smaller.
slides and presenters notes PDF (24MB)
slides onlyPDF (22MB)
Quick Time videos of sections of the presentation... interactive so you can click a mouse when you want the next slide.
You may need to download Quick Time softw...
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Friday, 30 March 2007 23:03
UAB in Antarctica Featured on CNN.com
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...
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