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Studying the Deep Sea in the Alvin What's it like to visit the deep sea in a manned submersible? ...
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VOCALS: Climate Science in the Southeast Pacific For six weeks this October and November, ...
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Adelie Penguins of the Antarctic 2008-2009 Starting in November, the Penguin Science team ...
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Tracking Changes in Antarctic Ice Sheets The amount of water locked up in ice sheets is so ...
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What's it like to use a telescope at an observatory? The Gemini 8-meter telescope NOAO/AURA/NSF ...
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From October until December 2008 a research team explored below the sea ice ...
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Postcards from the Field Annapurna Dare to Dream 2008, is an expedition to Annapurna - the ...
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A Family Expedition Looking for Sharks in the Bahamas This family of five is embarking on ...
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Antarctica is unique. It's cold. It's remote. And for the most part it is covered with ice. ...
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Studying storms to improve weather forecasts During the summer of 2007 (June to August) a ...
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A new analysis of the unusually long solar cycle that ended in 2008 suggests that one reason for the long cycle could be a stretching of the sun's conveyor belt, a current of plasma that circulates between...
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