http://www.usap.gov/ Announcements displayed on the United States Antarctic Program web site. Fri, 13 Jan 2011 16:31:35 GMT http://www.usap.gov/webservices/rss.cfm en-us webmaster@usap.gov Copyright 2010, United States Antarctic Program At approximately 1 p.m. New Zealand time on Tuesday, February 22, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the city of Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island. Christchurch serves as the deployment hub for personnel of the U.S. Antarctic Program ... Announcements Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:30:03 GMT NSF's Office of Polar Programs is seeking an Antarctic Integrated System Science Program Director ... Announcements Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:25:35 GMT Three new Program Officers will soon be joining the Division of Antarctic Sciences in the National Sciences Foundation's Office of Polar Programs ... Announcements Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:25:35 GMT Looking out over the next couple of decades, this report identifies key questions that will drive scientific research in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, and presents opportunities to be leveraged to sustain and improve the science program ... Announcements Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:25:35 GMT The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced it has reached an agreement with a Russian company to charter a diesel icebreaker to create a channel through the sea ice of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound ... Announcements Fri, 26 Aug 2011 9:06:03 GMT Laurence M. Gould (LMG) has been extended]]> ... Announcements Tue, 17 Feb 2010 12:28:00 GMT Blue Ribbon Panel to Assess U.S. Activities on World's Southernmost Continent ... Announcements Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:25:03 GMT There are important changes for baggage allowance during Mainbody deployment ... Announcements Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:43:00 GMT Colin Bull, professor emeritus at The Ohio State University and pioneering polar scientist, passed away on September 7, 2010 ... Announcements Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:45:03 GMT A workshop has been scheduled in February 2011 to discuss new polar research vessel development ... Announcements Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:26:03 GMT The U.S. Senate has confirmed Subra Suresh, President Barack Obama's nominee for director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), for a six-year term ... Announcements Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:45:03 GMT The 2010-2011 austral summer season will begin on schedule ... Announcements Tue, 21 Sep 2010 9:26:00 GMT Dr. Charles R. Stearns, the father of the U.S. Antarctic Program's Automatic Weather Station system and a pioneer in polar meteorology, died on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 ... Announcements Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:43:00 GMT Effective September 29, 2009, the USAP Air Post Office (APO) will no longer accept registered mail ... Announcements Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:56:00 GMT Arden L. Bement, the director of the National Science Foundation, has been named to lead Purdue University's new Global Policy Research Institute (GPRI), which will draw on seven different science and research disciplines ... Announcements Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:39:00 GMT In response to President Obama's Open Government Directive, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is finding ways to make its work more accessible to the general public, including the NSF's Open Government Directive Plan ... Announcements Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:26:00 GMT The format of USAP email addresses for USAP participants is changing ... Announcements Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT On February 6, 2010 the National Science Foundation launched a new interactive web page designed to encourage participation and collaboration between the agency and the citizens it serves ... Announcements Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:50:00 GMT The U.S. IPY opening ceremony included remarks from polar scientists about the nature and scope of U.S. IPY research, as well as remarks from government officials whose agencies play an active role in IPY ... Announcements Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:00:00 GMT The International IPY Committee has scheduled a regular sequence of "International Polar Days" to raise awareness and provide information about particular and timely aspects of the polar regions. The first International Polar Day, on September 21, 2007, will focus on sea ice. A new web site with information for the press and educators, details of current projects and expeditions, contact details for scientists in the polar regions and around the world, images, background information, and useful links and resources is available ... Announcements Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/sea_ice Advanced students and PhD graduates conducting research in the Arctic or Antarctic during the International Polar Year are invited to apply for the NGPR Symposium, which will be held May 4-11, 2008, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs through Whitman College and University of Colorado, the NGPR Symposium will provide an open forum for discussions that will lead to cross-fertilization of research ideas and techniques for educational outreach. The net result should be expansion of participants' historical, scientific, and professional outlook. Announcements Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT http://apecs.is/workshops/ngpr The 2009-10 season Customer Service Plan for the Antarctic Geospatial Information Center (AGIC) is available to view; AGIC services are made possible by a National Science Foundation funded grant supported by Raytheon Polar Services Company, the Antarctic support contractor ... Announcements Thu, 1 Oct 2009 9:51:00 GMT ANtarctic geological DRILLing (ANDRILL) has launched a new web site providing information about this multinational collaboration effort that involves recovering a history of paleoenvironmental changes ... Announcements Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.andrill.org/ The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) initiative is a multidisciplinary study of rapid climate change and future sea level. The WAIS web site provides an overview of the program, schedules, agendas, and abstracts, as well as articles. There is also a new multimedia area called "What's cool about WAIS?" that includes a comparison between Poles, ice stream dynamics, satellite views, and information about predictive tools, ocean-ice interaction, and ice coring. Announcements Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/wais/ What's cool about WAIS? Announcements Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/wais/waisFlash/index.htm The NSF-sponsored IPY web site serves as a gateway to information generated by U.S. federal agencies and their grantees about activities during the International Polar Year ... Announcements Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.us-ipy.gov/index.cfm?id=hom