Antartica (South Pole) Research

 OH To do this, researchers are building IceCube, a gigantic detector tucked deep inside the South Pole. When the detector is completed, it will rest inside a block of ice that measures a kilometer on each side and features more than 5100 sensors. ...

He has been to the Earth's South Pole, traveling with the British Antarctic Survey to study the effects of UV radiation on microorganisms "I guess that's one of the reasons I do studies in extreme environments, because it gives me a connection with ...

In 1991, the University of Michigan graduate was a physician at the Amundsen-Scott Station near the South Pole in a climate research project, said Mike O'Neill, the group's electronics technician. "He came in at the last minute not knowing anybody," ...

He has been to the Earth's South Pole, traveling with the British Antarctic Survey to study the effects of UV radiation on microorganisms. “I guess that's one of the reasons I do studies in extreme environments, because it gives me a connection with ...

 United Arab Emirates For the South Pole we took a week to do this. It's pretty frantic work.” Only one team, from Norway, has traversed Greenland south to north before. In 1992 the Norwegian explorers Rune Gjeldnes and Torry Larsen parachuted on to the southern tip of the ...

  Canada And just to show his true Canadian colours, he also became the first person to run across Antarctica to the South Pole. His talk got everybody fired up. I sensed Olympic gold in the air. Stockwell Day is the MP for Okanagan Coquihalla. ...

He finds work in Antarctica rewarding For trips to the South Pole, he flew to Christchurch, New Zealand, then flew five hours to McMurdo Station and then another three and a half hours to the Pole. Bell, who is 52 and has three grown children, stumbled across the work online. ...

 MD - Greg Sgammato, Greg Sgammato The film, beginning at the North Pole and working its way to the South Pole, follows several families of animals on their seasonal migrations. The first scenes showcase the Arctic during winter, a visual masterpiece of sparkling ice and mountains of ...

 South Africa The story began in the summer of 1914 when Shackleton and his crew set sail from England with the intention of being the first to cross the Antarctic continent from coast to coast, passing through the South Pole en route. After five months they reached ...

 OH It opens and closes on the plight of a male polar bear and – in between – journeys from first day of sunshine at the North Pole to last day of sunshine at the South Pole. Along the way, it shows us a dazzling assortment of animal life. ...

 NY Charles Hedrich from France plans to travel from the Geographic North Pole to the Geographic South Pole this year. He and his polar guide Arnaud Tortel are on the first leg; skiing from the NP to Greenland. Other Artic Expeditions: Storms and ...

 OK For trips to the South Pole, he flew to Christchurch, New Zealand, then flew five hours to McMurdo Station and then another three and a half hours to the Pole. Bell, who is 52 and has three grown children, stumbled across the work online. ...

If you like the TV series Planet Earth and the Discovery Channel nature programs, you'll love earth, Disney's big-screen documentary that travels from the North Pole to the South Pole to the African desert to the Himalayas to check out the lives of ... Film Review: Earth Film Journal

 Taiwan The agriculture center also makes remote operational improvements to its existing, state-of-the-art hydroponic "growth chamber" at the National Science Foundation's new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. Conditions at the South Pole, ...

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 FL Roald Amundsen, who discovered the South Pole, called Peary ``the greatest explorer since Christopher Columbus.'' For decades, Henson, who was black, rarely received credit for exploring alongside Peary on all his trips into the Arctic and reaching the ...

Dragging food and supplies on sledges, the pair will be alone and unaided as they walk the 1800-mile round-trip to the South Pole and back in honour of Scott's contribution to polar exploration and human endeavour. They estimate the Scott Antarctic ...

 Canada By the same authors,South Pole Penguinsinvestigates the fate of the penguins of Antarctica. Are they getting their fill of krill, or has climate change reshaped the food web? Riley joins Uncle Max on a voyage to the South Pole, home to whales, seals, ...

 TX Dr. Nielson detailed her adventure as a medical officer at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica in 1999. A former emergency room physician, she trekked to the isolated and frigid part of the world after having a string of bad experiences ...

 Macedonia British Antarctic Survey announced job vacancies on the South Pole, and thousands of recession-hit Britons already proved they would brave -50C to get work. British Antarctic Survey (BAS), which has five research stations on the Antarctic, ...

 NY The South Pole simply offers a setting on Earth with the least amount of interference from other factors. But even with a polar facility, these special neutrinos can be hard to find. The AMANDA (Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array) laboratory ...

 South Carolina At NSF, she served on a short-term assignment as the NSF science manager at the South Pole Station during the summer of 1999, for which she was awarded the Antarctica Service Medal. She was also selected as one of the Department of State-NSF Embassy ...

 MN Eric Larsen has mushed across the Canadian Arctic, skied to the North Pole and recently returned from an expedition to the South Pole. Now, the Grand Marais man is training for an expedition to what explorer circles call the world's three poles. ...

 India “I definitely will not be “touching” the South Pole,” I added, much to her disappointment. The five days my sisters and I spent in the Antarctic Peninsula were unusual and easily the best of the 17 days of our sailing holiday. ...

 United Kingdom By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Scientists have known for a long time that a rise in temperature in the oceans could cause the South Pole to start melting. However two studies published in the journal Nature have found new evidence of the ...

 United Kingdom Antarctica isn't like anywhere else on Earth, not even the Arctic. It still runs on the looser timetable of scientists and the military, and remains unconnected to the world of scheduled travel. Roald Amundsen, the first man to the South Pole, ...

 NY This was the task of Jerry Marty, project manager for the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. Much of the construction material was flow to the site on LC-130 Hercules airscraft flown by the 109th Airlift Wing, based in Scotia at the ...

 VA But in January 2011, this Washington-Lee High School physics teacher will be traveling to Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, to conduct experimental research. “I’d much rather prefer to go to a warm climate but that’s just not where the action is ...

 Jamaica The voyage, which is to celebrate the 60th anni-versary of the Common-wealth, will entail the women skiing more than 800 kilometres (500 miles) across the icy wastes of Antarctica to reach the South Pole on New Year's Day 2010. ...

A few months after deciding to give Antarctica a try, he was standing at the South Pole in 2004 with a group that had trekked about 70 miles in eight days. He was wrecked, though. “I thought, Wow, I’ve got some work to do here,” he says. ...

 India Hardangervidda (Norway), March 1: Aparna Ray, the 27-year-old from Calcutta, so impressed her trainers despite having no previous experience of skiing or indeed snow that choosing Reena Dharmshaktu ahead of her for the journey to the South Pole was ...

ScienceMode  NY The South Pole Telescope takes advantage of the clear, dry skies at the National Science Foundation's South Pole Station to study the cosmic background radiation, the afterglow of the big bang. The telescope measures eight meters (26.4 feet) in ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has offered some 38 jobs in five of its research stations on the world's coldest continent, Antarctica. ... British Antarctic Survey inundated with applications for south ... Telegraph.co.uk Some 40 jobs are on offer in Antarctica Sky News

 Ireland - Feb 2, 2009 “And I have found that I just love the snow and the Antarctic environment – which is something I would never have imagined,” he said, speaking from South ...

 UK - Jan 27, 2009 Daragh Horgan has just returned from a gruelling two-month trek to Antarctica where him and a team of five braved temperatures of -50C to drag their sleds ...

 United Kingdom - Over the next 48 hours, they skiied almost non-stop in the constant daylight of the Antarctic summer. Visibility in such thin, unpolluted air is ...

Antarctica. An orthographic projection of NASA's Blue Marble data set. Ray Zahab is a Canadian ultramarathon runner, personal trainer, and motivational ... Canadians set new record for South Pole trek ABC Online Explorers say they set record in South Pole trek The Associated Press

CORRECTION from Source -- Ray Zahab; South Pole Record/ THE SOUTH POLE, Antarctica , Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ - Ray Zahab , Kevin Vallely , and Richard Weber today fulfilled a goal by shattering the world record for ... South Pole Quest: No Easy Finish Outside Online

By By Martin Murphy/The Epoch Times The Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race to Geographic South Pole

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 FL - Todd Carmichael spoke to scientists at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station about his experience. Wayne Moore, a physician's assistant working at the pole, ... American breaks world ski record across Antarctica – without skis Bangor Daily News all 2 news articles

 Canada - Dec 23, 2008 Four Hamilton-area adventurers are stranded in the Antarctic and will not be able to get home in time for Christmas. The team -- which arrived at the South ...

 Canada - Dec 4, 2008 The South Pole presents a whole new set of challenges, and, while they do not remotely approach the perils of Shackleton's day, if the katabatic Antarctic ... Dreamer' drawn to the extreme ends of the Earth Hamilton Spectator all 2 news articles

Mountaineer's memorable year ends with Pole trip  UK - Nov 27, 2008 The group will arrive at Punta Arenas in Chile before flying to the Patriot Hills in Antarctica. Lee will then accompany them to the South Pole on a ski ...

By Heidi(noreply@blogger.com) Our final exit from South Pole happened only 1 day behind schedule as we boarded the first LC-130 of the season on Nov 6 to start the journey north.  Mercifully, we had only one night to endure in McMurdo before the final leg to civilization, reaching Christchurch, New Zealand the night of No...

By Heidi(noreply@blogger.com) Little did anyone know that during the winter we were taken over by pirates who made an unfortunate Polie walk the plank from the Observation Deck. Even worse, they put the station up for sale and given the state of the housing market, it's probably now worth less than what the taxpayers paid...

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff Swinging its massive mirror skyward, the South Pole Telescope (SPT) for the last few months has begun to search the southern polar heavens for shreds of evidence of the elusive stuff. Controlled remotely from the University of Chicago, ...

The discovery of the magnetic compass was an event of GREAT importance in the history of people. It was the first documented instrument created by mankind that could be read using a precise scale. Of course the sundial had been around for a long time, but it doesn't move [just it's shadow does...

By trikc Source I just kept on looking at Jorgen Amundsen ski-ing next to me, encouraging me. I will never ever give up in front of a Norwegian! Let alone a relative of Roald Amundsen (who beat Britain's Captain Scott to the South Pole.) There is just too much rivalry between our two nations for that."

By Jay Tea Robert the Original, that's just funny... :: by John in CA on June 28, 2007 7:43 AM :: Click on link to hear) by George on June 28, 2007 8:15 AM :: Yeah, this is just what Russia needs, because you can never have enough barren, frozen wilderness. by OregonMuse on June 28, 2007 9:59 AM ::

By Jay Tea Earlier, Kim posted about Russia deciding to annex a portion of the North Pole. The article she cited was both fascinating and ominous, as numerous commenters also noted, but I have to say that I am not in the least concerned about Russia and land-grabbing at the North Pole.

The Antarctic base occupied by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole on foot early last century has been included on a list of the world's 100 most endangered sites, spurring pleas Friday for multimillion dollar conservation work.