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4/30/2012
In April of 2012, a conference in Montreal drew the International Polar Year 2007-2008 to an official end. For links to archived materials click the headline above.
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2/8/2012
Earth’s glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
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12/23/2011
Half-mile long thermometers have been dropped through the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica that will give the world relevant data on sea and ice temperatures for tracking climate change and its effect on the glacial ice surrounding the continent.
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11/16/2011
Researchers with the IPY centerpiece AGAP project may have at last answered a 50 year-old conundrum. They may now know how Antarctica's Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains were formed, a question scientists have pondered since 1958.
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11/16/2011
The National Science Foundation has awarded $16.3 million to the University of Alaska Fairbanks in support of the Toolik Field Station, a major site for national and international research in the North American Arctic since 1975.
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11/9/2011
In an IPY project funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, researchers will helicopter onto the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, to determine how much heat ocean currents deliver to the underside and how that may accelerate melting.
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9/15/2011
Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its lowest extent for the year. The minimum ice extent was the second lowest in the satellite record, after 2007, and continues the decadal trend of rapidly decreasing summer sea ice.
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9/13/2011
In USGS-coordinated interviews, Yup'ik hunters and elders expressed concerns ranging from safety, such as unpredictable weather patterns and dangerous ice conditions, to changes in plants and animals as well as decreased availability of firewood.
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8/31/2011
On behalf of NSF and the U.S. Arctic researchers it supports, I wish to express our collective sadness at the death of Martin ("Marty") Bergmann, director of Canada's Polar Continental Shelf Program and a leading light in Arctic science.
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8/22/2011
NOAA, Shell Exploration & Production, ConocoPhillips, and Statoil USA E&P Inc. have agreed to share a number of scientific data sets, including weather and ocean observations, biological information, and sea-ice and sea-floor mapping studies.
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