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Massive Iceberg Breaks From Pine Island Glacier
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Monday February 17, 2020
Last week, a massive iceberg broke from Pine Island Glacier, one of Antarctica's largest glaciers, which flows into the Amundsen Sea. Pine Island Glacier calving events appear to be occurring more frequently.
The NSF Research Vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer Diverted For Rescue Operation
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Monday February 17, 2020
The RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, currently supporting the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration project, diverted from science operations on February 13th to aid another vessel stuck in heavy ice. Rescue oprations were completed on February 15th.
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Feb
17
2020
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Rowell Joins OPP as Antarctic Infrastructure and Logistics Program Manager
W. Andrew Rowell, a graduate of The Citadel Military College of South Carolina, has joined OPP's Antarctic Infrastructure and Logistics (AIL) Section as logistics program manager. Prior to joining AIL, he was the Services and Logistics Division Chief for HQ Air Force, Secretary of the Air Force Administrative Assistant Operations Directorate (SAF/AAO) at The Pentagon.
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Jan
31
2020
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NSF Statement on the Outbreak of 2019-nCoV (Coronavirus)
The outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV (coronavirus), is of serious concern to the Office of Polar Programs, which supports thousands of researchers, operational personnel, and other visitors to remote stations in the Arctic and Antarctica. As an immediate response, OPP augmented medical screening questions for personnel deploying to Antarctica and Greenland.
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Dec
18
2019
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Gregory Joins OPP as Antarctic Transportation Program Manager
Stuart Gregory, a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, has joined OPP's Antarctic Infrastructure and Logistics (AIL) Section as transportation program manager. Immediately prior to coming to AIL, he was the business operations director at the Air Force Office of Energy Assurance (OEA), where he helped to increase energy resilience at Air Force installations.
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Nov
25
2019
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Side by Side
In a relatively rare occurrence, the NSF Antarctic research vessels Laurence M. Gould and Nathaniel B. Palmer lie alongside one another at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula. The last time they were both at the station at the same time was in 2000. The Palmer, largest of the two, was rafted next to the Gould to transfer passengers and equipment to the station.
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Nov
07
2019
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Two-million-year-old Ice Provides Snapshot of Earth's Greenhouse Gas History
Two-million-year old ice from the Allan Hills region of Antarctica recently uncovered by a team of researchers provides a clearer picture into the connections between greenhouse gases and climate in the ancient past and is expected to help scientists understand future climate change. In a recent edition of the journal Nature, a group of scientists described how they used air trapped in the bubbles in ice as old as two million years to measure levels of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane.
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Oct
29
2019
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Celebrating 50 Years of Women's Contributions to Polar Research
On October 16, 17, and 18, Ohio State University hosted a symposium entitled "Women in Antarctica: celebrating 50 years of exploration", marking the first deployment of women as researchers with the NSF-managed U.S. Antarctic Program. Speakers included surviving members of that expedition; the head of the Antarctic Program; two women who hold key roles in science support for the Program; and former and current female researchers.
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Oct
29
2019
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Hear From OPP-funded Antarctic Scientists Aboard the R/V Laurence M. Gould
The Inner Space Center (ISC), located at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, is a one-of-a-kind national facility that supports live ocean exploration through telepresence technology. At 7:00 pm Eastern on Monday, October 28, ISC will hold a Facebook Live event with researchers aboard the R/V Laurence M. Gould, one of two vessels chartered by the NSF-managed U.S. Antarctic Program.
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Oct
11
2019
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Moore to Join Antarctic Sciences Section
Robert Moore will join OPP's Antarctic Sciences Section on October 15 as Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences (AAGS) program director. Vladimir Papitashvili, the current AAGS program director, will remain with the section, focusing more on the large research facilities, such as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and cosmic microwave background telescopes, at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
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Oct
08
2019
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Two Former U.S. Antarctic Program Women Scheduled to Carry Out First All-female Spacewalk Later This Month
NASA announced late this week that astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who are both currently aboard the International Space Station, are scheduled, on October 21, to attempt the first all-female spacewalk. Koch previously worked at NSF's Palmer and Amundsen-Scott South Pole stations in Antarctica. Meir worked with researcher Paul Ponganis, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, her doctoral-dissertation adviser, to study the physiology of Antarctic emperor penguins.
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Oct
07
2019
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Safety and Occupational Health Manager Position Available
This position is assigned to the Office of Polar Environment, Health and Safety (PESH), Office of Polar Programs (OPP), National Science Foundation and is located in Alexandria, Virginia. The deadline to apply for this position is October 15, 2019.
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Oct
01
2019
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Two Polar "Alumni", Both Women, Serving Aboard the International Space Station
Jessica Meir, formerly an NSF funded, U.S. Antarctic Program researcher and now a NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut, joined the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this week, temporarily increasing the orbiting laboratory's population to nine people, one of whom is fellow astronaut Christina Hammock Koch, who also served in the Antarctic Program and at NSF's Summit Station in Greenland.
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Sep
06
2019
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Statement by Dr. Kelly K. Falkner: On the Passing of Adrian-Dahood Fritz
On behalf of all of us in NSF's Office of Polar Programs, I wish to express our deepest sorrow at the untimely loss of our former colleague and co-worker, Adrian Dahood-Fritz. Adrian and her husband, Andrew, were among those whose lives were cut short by the dive-boat fire off California's Santa Cruz Island earlier this week.
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Aug
19
2019
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In Memorium: Umihiko Hoshijima, Antarctic Scientific Diver
Umihiko ("Umi") Hoshijima, a postdoctoral researcher in ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, died in a diving accident while working on a research project in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey near Glacier Bay, Alaska, on Aug. 7, according to a university news release. He was 28.
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