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RESEARCH UPDATE: The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica
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Monday May 10, 2021
The world is currently on track to exceed three degrees Celsius of global warming, and new NSF-funded research led by researchers at the UMass Amherst shows that such a scenario would drastically accelerate the pace of sea-level rise by 2100. However, the paper reveals that there still appears to be an opening for humankind to collectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent this mid-century acceleration in sea-level rise.
Margaret Knuth appointed Chief Program Manager for the U.S. Antarctic Program
Announcements
Monday May 10, 2021
Ms. Margaret Knuth has been appointed to be the Chief Program Manager for the U.S. Antarctic Program, where she will manage and oversee operations and logistics across USAP stations, field sites, gateways, and port facilities. She will also lead USAP's logistics collaborations with other National Antarctic Programs, and serve on the USAP Executive Management Board. This position is part of the Section for Antarctic Infrastructure and Logistics at NSF.
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Apr
23
2021
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NSF Blog: The Glacier of Greatest Concern
Antarctica's massive Thwaites Glacier is melting and its collapse could raise sea levels significantly around the world. Through the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.K. Natural Environment Research Council have teamed up to send scientists to the remote region by land, sea and air to study every aspect of the glacier.
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Apr
22
2021
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New Pier to be Constructed in 2021-2022 at Palmer Station
The National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to rebuild the pier at Palmer Station, its research facility on Anvers Island, Antarctica. The new pier will be more than three times larger than the current one, extending farther out from the station into deeper water to allow the mooring of larger ships.
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Apr
22
2021
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U.S. Antarctic Program develops Sexual Assault/Harassment Prevention and Response (SAHPR) Program
The NSF Office of Polar Programs has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interiorâs Federal Consulting Group. The agreement contracts a team of experts to assist the NSF in the creation of a U.S. Antarctic Program Sexual Assault/Harassment Prevention and Response program.
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Apr
12
2021
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Tammy Perkins joins the Office of Polar Programs as Business Manager for the U.S. Antarctic Program
Ms. Perkins is a native of University Heights, Ohio. She began her federal government career as a business opportunity specialist/program analyst for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in the HUBZone program office. Prior to joining the National Science Foundation, Ms. Perkins worked for the Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) office, a client support center, within the General Services Administration's (GSA) Office of Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS) that provides assisted acquisition services.
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Apr
10
2021
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NOVA Explores Mt. Erebus Volcano
Most people associate Antarctica with snow and ice, but perhaps the most extreme geographic feature of the continent is Mount Erebus, one of Antarctica's two active volcanoes and the southernmost active volcano on Earth.
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Apr
10
2021
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UAVs Monitor Cape Crozier's Adelie Penguin Colonies
Antarctica's Cape Crozier is one of the biggest Adelie penguin colonies in the world. The colony is home to an estimated 600,000 penguins, but getting an accurate count is difficult.
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Apr
07
2021
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Icefin Robot: a small, under-ice, robotic oceanographer
Studying remote parts of Antarctica and its glaciers can require specialized equipment and innovative technologies. Georgia Tech researcher Dr. Britney Schmidt is the lead scientist for Icefin Robot: a small, under-ice, robotic oceanographer.
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Mar
31
2021
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Cruising for Mollusks
Scientists are going to the ends of the Earth to discover all they can about an obscure group of sparkly, worm-like mollusks. In October, researchers sailed from California to Antarctica searching for aplacophorans, a diverse group of poorly understood distant sea slug cousins.
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Mar
30
2021
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Black Hole photographed in Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, has recently released a new view of the first-ever photographed black hole from 2019. Except this time they are showing how it looks in polarized light.
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Mar
26
2021
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Appointment of Dr. Maria Vernet, Program Director, Organisms and Ecosystems
Dr. Vernet, who joined OPP in October of last year, is trained as a biological oceanographer and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington, working on phytoplankton photosynthetic pigments and their role as proxies for biodiversity and grazing processes the North Pacific Gyre and the fjords in Puget Sound, WA.
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Mar
22
2021
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Media visits to the Arctic and Antarctic suspended for 2021-2022
The health and safety of the polar research community continues to be NSF's top priority. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly limited research opportunities to the Arctic and Antarctic regions in the past year, and travel restrictions continue to make access to these regions logistically challenging. Due to these continued limitations, the need to prioritize science, and the importance of keeping COVID-19 out of Antarctica and the Arctic communities, NSF has decided to cancel media visits to these areas for the upcoming research seasons. NSF is committed to media engagement in the Arctic and Antarctic and will make an announcement at a later date regarding future on-site media opportunities.
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Mar
17
2021
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Charting a Genetic Sea Change
Scientists are mapping the coastline of ancient Antarctica using DNA from underwater invertebrates alive today.
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Mar
10
2021
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IceCube Sees a Glashow Resonance Event
On December 6, 2016, IceCube saw a Glashow resonance event, a phenomenon predicted by Nobel laureate physicist Sheldon Glashow in 1960. With this detection, scientists provided another confirmation of the Standard Model of particle physics.
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