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Record melting on the Antarctic George VI Ice Shelf
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Thursday February 25, 2021
The George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula, experienced the longest melt season in three decades.

Kimberly Ohnemus joins OPP as John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow
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Monday February 22, 2021
Kimberly Ohnemus is a Cape Cod native who has spent the majority of her life along the coastlines of New England. She earned a bachelor's degree in biology, concentrating in ecology and evolution, from Skidmore College in 2014. After a brief career as an educator, she chose to pursue environmental policy, graduating from the University of Rhode Island with an MA in Marine Affairs in the spring of 2020.

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Feb 17 2021	News Counting On Seals Though smaller than in a typical year, a team of scientists traveled to Antarctica to study the seal pups born around McMurdo Station, and keep the world's longest Weddell sea population dataset going strong after 52 years.
Jan 29 2021	News Weddell Seals Sing Songs Humans Can't Hear The seals of McMurdo Sound are more vocal than previously thought. A new research paper published in the December edition of The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America shows that Weddell seals vocalize underwater at frequencies too high for humans to hear. It's the first time the extent of these high-frequency sounds have been identified.
Jan 28 2021	Announcements New NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Supporting Data and Sample Reuse in Polar Research This new NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Supporting Data and Sample Reuse in Polar Research from the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) encourages submission of proposals that leverage existing data, physical samples, and non-physical samples (e.g., films, recordings, etc.), as well as those that facilitate the reuse of existing data.
Jan 27 2021	News Shark Teeth Provide Clues About Ancient Global Change Teeth from the long-extinct sand tiger shark are providing new information about massive global climate change and the movement of tectonic plates. NSF-funded University of California Merced Professor Sora Kim and colleagues have detailed in a recent paper.
Jan 18 2021	Announcements EVENT: February 16, Virtual Industry Day for Operations and Science Support to the United States Antarctic Program The United States Antarctic Program encompasses all U.S. scientific research and related logistics in Antarctica and aboard ships in the Southern Ocean. The program's world class science relies on seamless integration between operations and research support. NSF is beginning acquisition planning for a follow-on to the current Antarctic Support Contract, and wants to hear from interested parties at a Virtual Industry Day.
Jan 14 2021	News IceCube Collaboration Awarded the 2021 Bruno Rossi Prize The 2021 Bruno Rossi Prize, awarded annually by the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society, "for a significant contribution to High Energy Astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work," has been awarded to Francis Halzen and the IceCube Collaboration.
Jan 11 2021	News A 'Bot In The Ocean For four months, a robotic surfboard-looking autonomous surface vehicle navigated the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, collecting data about the surrounding waters and atmosphere. This data will help researchers better understand how the Southern Ocean affects the planet's climate.
Jan 04 2021	News The 2021 South Pole Marker Every year on January 1, the new south pole marker is placed at 90 degrees south. Each new marker is designed and fabricated every winter by the wintering-over station personnel. This year's marker was designed by Geoffrey Chen and fabricated by Cal Neske.

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