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Friday, 19 March 2010 13:49

Stories from March Polar Week

Written by Nicola Munro

People from across the globe have been celebrating March Polar Week from Lusaka, Zambia, to Quebec, Canada and here we share some of their inspirational stories and pictures.

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Monday, 14 September 2009 10:51

October Polar Week: What Happens at the Poles Affects Us All

Written by Kári Fannar

October 5-9, 2009

ilullisat October Polar Week will focus on recruiting new individual and institutional partners, will stimulate increased engagement by polar partners, and will highlight classroom activities developed for the new IPY Polar Resource Book. This polar week will feature fresh accessible science, live events, fun classroom activities, virtual balloon launches and spontaneous global inter-connections - activities that have made IPY Polar Days effective and enjoyable.

Although most of us will never encounter sea ice or permafrost, see mountain glaciers, or meet a free-living penguin, we can recognize the impacts of polar changes on our global systems, on our weather and climate, and on our neighbors in many parts of the world. This Polar Week will provide you with the opportunity to explore the many changes in polar regions.

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Thursday, 20 August 2009 13:59

See where people are celebrating IPY Polar Week in 2009

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Sunday, 15 March 2009 05:54

Explore the polar oceans with Google Earth

Written by Louise Huffman

With the release of Google Earth 5 in February 2009, this freely downloadable virtual globe application gained a feature that makes it much more adept at exploring the oceans: The oceans are now rendered in 3D, using the best global bathymetry dataset currently available. Here's how to get started exploring interesting polar ocean content with Google Earth 5. If you haven't already, download and install the latest version of Google Earth, available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Go ahead and launch it. In Google Earth 5, when you look at the glob...

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Monday, 09 March 2009 17:46

On Thin Ice in the Bering Sea

Written by Rhian Salmon

Throughout March, and the weeks of Polar Oceans Activities, we will be receiving regular updates from a research cruise on the Healy Icebreaker in the Bering Sea, as aswell as connecting live to researchers during our Live Events. This page introduces the 'Thin Ice' team who will be documenting the adventure, and sending us details about the researchers, and research, being carried our aboard. Quick links: Daily stories from the ship have started A documentary ...

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Friday, 20 February 2009 22:05

Polar Oceans and Art

Written by Louise Huffman

By Jenny Rock, School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University Climate change and polar oceans: With global warming, the world's ecosystems have been described as migrating toward the poles, such that when the ice disappears entirely the ecosystems at the poles will be "pushed right off the planet". For the polar environment, these are of course dominantly marine ecosystems, and although many organisms are/or will soon feel the effects, the polar bears have become iconic for polar organisms in peril. There is grim irony here: Until very recently the ice bear was unconditionally feared by western man. As the early explorer's discovered, even when dead the beasts could kill you (their liver had the final say on numerous occasions). Polar bears we...

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Thursday, 05 February 2009 16:54

Polar Oceans: Biological Ocean

Written by Nicola Munro

Thanks to Jenny Rock, Biological Sciences, Bangor University, Wales & Falk Huettmann, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. South Orkney Composite courtesy of David Barnes, British Antarctic Survey Polar ecosystems The polar regions remain one of the least studied and understood ecosystems on the planet, despite their influential role in driving many global climatic processes. The polar marine environment is a unique habitat rich in species adapted to extreme conditions. In both the Arctic and the Antarctic, physical isolation, marked seasonal cycles of photoperiod/nutrient availability, ...

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Thursday, 05 February 2009 16:50

Polar Oceans: Physical Ocean

Written by Nicola Munro

Many thanks to Rachael Mueller (College of Oceanic and Atmospherice Sciences, Oregon State University) and Jenny Rock ( School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University) for writing this piece about the Physical Ocean. Thanks to the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists, APECS, for connecting us all. Lars Poort The dramatic landscape of the polar regions has been captured in breath-taking images that show a unique combination of mountains, ice and surreal lighting. More difficult to see, however, is the complexity of t...

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Wednesday, 04 February 2009 19:32

Polar Oceans: Food Web Activity - 'What's for Lunch?'

Written by Nicola Munro

Image: Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey This activity is also available in downloadable flyers in many languages. Download these posters (pdfs) from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (Please note - Permission of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery must be obtained before any re-use of this image): ...

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