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Project SCINI 2009

SCINI stands for Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging. She is an underwater robot specifically built to complete science missions beneath the frozen surface of the ocean in Antarctica. Learn more about the project, team, and read the "Daily Slog" from the team.

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Ice Stories: Meet Benthic Ecologist Stacy Kim

Stacy Kim is a benthic ecologist; she studies the animals that live on and in the seafloor and how they interact with one another in a community. Follow Stacy through blogs, videos, and more via the Ice Stories website.

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Ice Stories: Meet a Polar Bear Researcher John Whiteman

John Whiteman says that most of his fun comes from thinking about how events outside an animal affect events inside an animal. For his PhD research, he’s studying how warm weather during summer can make hunting difficult for polar bears, forcing them to make seasonal adjustments such as living off of their own body fat. He’s also investigating how these

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BIOSCIEDNET (BEN)

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About the Collaborative

The BEN Collaborative was established in 1999 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) with 11 other professional societies and coalitions. Since its inception, the BEN Collaborative has grown from its original 11 and continues to add new collaborators. The BEN Collaborative mission is not only to provide seamless access to

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Earth Under Fire

This book is a message from many of the places where the effects of rapid climate change are being seen and where scientists are studying what is happening. It is also a report on what these changes mean and what we can do about them. As a witness to climate change, I have stood in the empty rookeries of displaced

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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears is an online magazine created to assist elementary school educators teach lessons about the polar regions. From the website: This blog is focused on helping elementary teachers become more knowledgeable about the polar regions and providing best practices on how to integrate polar concepts into their teaching. Ideas for connecting science and literacy through literature

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Bowser Lab

Dr. Samuel Bowser is a researcher who goes on expeditions to the Antarctic to study organisms that live there. This site is his personal informational hub.

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Penguin Science

Taken from website: Today an international team of scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and supported by its Office of Polar Programs and the U.S. Antarctic Program is researching how penguins are coping with a rapidly changing climate, as well as to equally profound changes caused by commercial fishing. Researchers have come to Ross Island to study penguin

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My NASA Data

WHAT IS MY NASA DATA? Mentoring and inquiry using NASA Data for Atmospheric and earth science for Teachers and Amateurs (MY NASA DATA) is a project to enable K-12 teachers and students, as well as citizen scientists, to explore the large volumes of data that NASA collects about the Earth from space. Students use scientific inquiry and math skills as

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