The polar offering is called SPRINTT (Student Polar Research with IPY and National [and International] Teacher Training). Students in grades 5-12 will be introduced to the unique environments of the Arctic and Antarctic and also view current climate changes through the perspectives of native people. 

Participating schools agree to adopt SPRINTT as a part of the formal science curriculum and use SPRINTT curricular materials. The minimum commitment is: (1) a three-week introductory unit in which students learn about the polar regions and (2) student research projects using polar data sets. Teachers are trained in the program through online sessions with polar researchers.

Beginning in November, online training sessions are available by completing the online registration and obtaining a written agreement of support from the school principal.

U.S. Satellite Laboratory, located in Rye, New York, was founded by science educator Glen Schuster. It now offers three no-fee programs in science, including Signals of Spring, Project 3D-View (Virtual Interactive Environmental Worlds), and SPRINTT.

arXiv is the primary daily information source for hundreds of thousands of researchers in many areas of physics and related fields. Its users include the world’s most prominent researchers in science, including 53 Physics Nobel Laureates, 31 Fields Medalists and 55 MacArthur Fellows, as well as people in countries with limited access to scientific materials. The famously reclusive Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posted the proof for the 100-year-old Poincaré Conjecture solely in arXiv.

Journalists also use the repository extensively to prepare articles for the general public about newly released scientific results. It has long stood at the forefront of the open-access movement and served as the model for many other initiatives, including the National Institute of Health‚s PubMedCentral repository, and the many institutional DSpace repositories. arXiv is currently ranked the No. 1 repository in the world by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

“arXiv began its operations before the World Wide Web, search engines, online commerce and all the rest, but nonetheless anticipated many components of current Web 2.0‚ methodology,” said Cornell professor Paul Ginsparg, arXiv‚s creator. “It continues to play a leading role at the forefront of new models for scientific communication.”

arXiv encompasses publications in physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science and quantitative biology. Researchers upload their own articles to arXiv, and they are usually made available to the public the next day. A team of 113 volunteer moderators from around the world screen submissions and recommend whether they should be included in the repository.

More than 200,000 articles are downloaded from arXiv each week by about 400,000 users, and its 118,000 registered submitters live in nearly 200 countries, including Suriname, Sudan and Iraq. Fifteen countries host mirrors of the main site, which is located on Cornell‚s campus in Ithaca, N.Y.

“It represents an incredible model for scholarly communication that transcends borders, publishers and time,” said Anne R. Kenney, Cornell’s Carl A. Kroch University Librarian. “We bring operational stability and a demonstrated track record of stewardship to this invaluable open-access resource.”

Ginsparg developed arXiv in 1991, when he was working for Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. When Ginsparg came to Cornell as a faculty member in 2001, the repository came with him and is now a collaboration between Cornell University Library and Cornell‚s Information Science Program. The Library maintains the repository; information science handles research and development.

The repository is continually evolving, adding links to other repositories and RSS feeds. New facilities are being developed to ease the submission process for authors and support the addition of articles from conference management systems. The new query-and-retrieval interface allows others to build additional services onto arXiv, such as an iPhone interface.

“We’re excited to not only sustain and grow arXiv, but also to make it an integral part of the global scholarly communications infrastructure,” said arXiv manager Simeon Warner, who has been working on the project for nearly a decade.

See arXiv.org for more details.

The mission was flown as part of Operation Deep Freeze, which is headquartered at Hickam Air Force base in Hawaii and provides air- and sealift support to the U.S. Antarctic Program and the National Science Foundation.

According to the Air Force News Agency, the C-17 is the jet built for night-vision operations. It shows all the aircraft’s operating parameters directly in front of the pilots on a piece of glass. This allows pilots to use night-vision goggles to survey the area.

For the flight into McMurdo Station, 64 high-intensity retro-reflective cones were placed on the runway edge. The unpowered cones reflect the plane’s wingtip light to the night-vision goggles when the plane comes in for landing. One pilot said the reflective cones could be seen by the naked eye two or three miles from the runway. It had been physically impossible to light the entire runway with powered light sources.

There were ten pilots on board the first landing on Pegasus Ice Runway, all of whom were certified to land on the ice in the dark using night-vision goggles and the cones. 

Let content be free;
Create value with context.
Service you can sell!

When nouns become verbs:
To google, or go ogle?
The hit list beckons.

Who learns what, and how?
Social graph meets concept map.
Make my dream come true!

Change is in the air.
But the learner still comes first;
Begin with the end.

Views are author’s own.
Not official policy
Of the NSF.

Top left to right: NSDL Resource Center Director Kaye Howe addresses participants; 2008 Annual Meeting Chair Sarah Holsted reads Haiku while 2009 Annual Meeting Chair Susan Jesuroga listens; attendees discuss 2009 Annual Meeting priorities.

NSF NSDL Program Director Lee Zia has traditionally shared Haiku written especially to echo some of the meeting themes to mark the end of each year’s NSDL Annual Meeting. This year’s collection was penned by members of the NSDL community and delivered by Sarah Holsted, NSDL Annual Meeting 2008 Chair:

CHANGE
Stage Two Proposal
Induces insane review;
CSERD marches on.
–Bob Panoff

From the red embers
of Core Dis-Integration,
what Phoenix rises?
–James Blake

PROCESS
Verification
Validation of science
Accreditation.
–Bob Panoff

Deadlines pass quickly
Networked angel nags online
Holsted saves again
–Sherry Hsi

DATA
Three million page views
Month after month after month
Computational.
–Bob Panoff

Sifting though content
Endless searches return piles
Metadata please
–Sherry Hsi

Metrics waft like snow
Whipped about by unknown souls
While I shovel the path
–Bob Donahue

TRANSITION & FUTURE
Monkeys, monkeys run!
Through the jungle laptops come
Swinging in rhythm
–Sherry Hsi

Cheers! (A Haiku in Appreciation of Lee Zia)
Up late… idea:
Transform STEM world-online… To
Do: NSDL!
–Sarah Holsted

Researchers are seeking to learn more about the seal’s annual movement and its fidelity to its breeding sites in order to predict the impact of decreasing sea ice and early snowmelt on the mammal.

The dogs find the seals’ breathing holes and snow caves in the sea ice cover. Then the researchers set up live-capture nets on the breathing hole and attach satellite tags to the captured seals.

An Inuit hunter taught Kelly how to use dogs to find seals. The dogs run ahead of the researchers’ snow machines “sniffing” for the scent of a seal. When the dogs detect an odor, they run in a zig-zag pattern, which gets shorter and shorter as they close in on the scent. The dogs start digging until Kelly and his co-workers call away the dogs and set up a live-capture net on the breathing hole. The net prevents the seal from diving back into the water after it comes up for air. The biologists take skin and hair samples and attach satellite tags.

The tag, attached to a flipper, allows researchers to track the seals for more than a year and monitor the seals’ movements between mating seasons. The ringed seal can make deep dives, down to 300 feet, and stay submerged for up to 45 minutes.

Kelly says the dogs have a 80 to 85 percent success rate in the five to ten kilometer radius around campsites. They find 100 to 200 holes in a month. Kelly trained his first Labrador to find seals by using seal-skin slippers buried in the snow. Now young dogs are taken out with experienced dogs to learn how to track the seals. 

The research is meant to produce more information about the four ice-associated seals (spotted, ribbon, ringed, and bearded) and the impact of global warming on them. The research so far has shown that ringed seals are emerging from their lairs earlier, corresponding with earlier snowmelt. Early snowmelt exposes seal pups prematurely and increases their death rates from exposure to the cold and to predators.

The National Marine Fisheries Service announced in September that it will review the status of ringed, bearded and spotted seals as candidates for threatened or endangered species protection. The agency is responding to a petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity 

Ringed seals are found throughout oceans around the North Pole. They are the smallest of seal species, growing up to five feet in length and weighing up to 150 pounds. They dig their cone-shaped breathing holes through the ice with the claws of their front flippers. In the snow accumulated around the holes, the seals build caves or lairs in which the female gives birth to one pup.

Listening to and responding to needs expressed by educators in California in partnership with the California School-Age Consortium (CALSAC), the Exploratorium created a series of activities and videos that any educator can access online. These activities, using low cost materials suited for the afterschool environment, downloadable activity outlines, and online demonstration videos, provide a fun and interactive way for afterschool programs to infuse more science education in their activities and curricula.

NSDL Sites to See: Be sure to check out the The Exploratorium Digital Library and the Exploratorium’s Learning Resource Collection

Learn about the albedo (reflectivity) of Earth’s various surfaces and how increased melting of polar ice caps will affect Earth’s energy balance

Find lessons, stories, and books to teach your students about solar radiation, reflection, and absorption

Assess student misconceptions about solar radiation

Learn about the natural resources found in the polar regions

Find activities to teach natural resources and energy efficiency

Read about a researcher’s study of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice

Of course, there’s much more to be discovered. Check out Issue 7: Energy and the Polar Environment today!

American Society for Indexing

http://www.asindexing.org/site/refbooks.shtml 

Council of Science Editors

http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/links.cfm

Fact Monster from Information Please

http://www.factmonster.com/science.html 

General Tables of Units of Measurement (NIST)

http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/Publications/upload/h4402_appenc.pdf

How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/

HyperPhysics, HyperMath, HyperBiology

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html

tcaep.co.uk  (constants for science, math, and astronomy)

http://www.scenta.co.uk/tcaep/

 The World Almanac e-Newsletter

http://www.worldalmanac.com/wa-newsletter.aspx?show=200802

2008 was the second-lowest year in terms of summer Arctic sea ice coverage, a continuation of an accelerated downward trend. This was also the first year in which the Northwest Passage and the Northeast Passage were both ice free. In addition, Arctic sea ice is becoming younger and thinner and thus more susceptible to melting. The continued loss of sea ice spells trouble for polar bears and other marine mammals as well as the indigenous peoples of the Arctic. It also means that less solar radiation is reflected back into space, as it is absorbed by the darker open water. Increased heat absorption will lead to further melting and is thus a powerful positive feedback that accelerates global warming.

Another positive feedback in the Arctic is thawing permafrost. Permafrost, frozen ground that contains slowly decomposing roots and other soil organic matter, contains large amounts of organic carbon. As temperatures warm and permafrost thaws, the carbon is released into the atmosphere as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane. Permafrost blankets the northern latitudes of Russia, Europe, Greenland, and North America. Just how much carbon is contained in these areas? A new study estimates 1,672 billion metric tons – more than double the 780 billion tons in the atmosphere today. Researchers say that this new estimate supports other climate change science in suggesting that at a certain tipping point, natural processes (such as permafrost thaw) may contribute significantly to global warming. Another study has identified very old (more than 700,000 years) sections of permafrost in North America, suggesting that layers of frozen soil more than several meters below the surface may be more resilient than previously thought. Even so, the authors conclude that permafrost’s potential role in global warming should not be ignored.

Greenland has also made news in recent months as a result of ice loss and continued studies of ice sheet dynamics. While much of the focus has been on large glaciers, new research has found that almost 75% of Greenland’s ice loss can be traced back to small coastal glaciers. The study combined two types of satellite data to obtain a better picture of the rapid thinning. Greenland is second only to Antarctica in terms of ice, a cap 1,491 miles long, 683 miles wide, and 1.8 deep at its thickest point.

The changes across the Arctic have prompted a group of scientists to merge and re-analyze ten years of detailed atmospheric, sea ice, and land surface measurements into a single computer model-based synthesis. Researchers hope that the Arctic System Reanalysis project will lead to a better understanding of changes in the diverse and complex Arctic environment.

In August, we reported that vast amounts of oil and natural gas were believed to be present in the Arctic region. Now, new technologies and expeditions may help governments locate and utilize these resources. Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a method to analyze remote sensing data that locates the intersection of continental and oceanic crust. Called rifted continental margins, these boundaries are often the location for oil and gas reserves. U.S. and Canadian expeditions will explore the Arctic seafloor in an attempt to map the extended continental shelf, an area more than 200 nautical miles beyond shore. Under the criteria of the Convention of the Law of the Sea, countries may claim the extended continental shelf off their coastline.  

Researchers in the polar regions will soon be able to start processing data in the field, thanks to the Polar Grid Project. The project provides a collection of customized computational resources in an effort to speed time between data collection and scientific discovery. Data analysis in the field also provides the ability to adjust experiments to gather more accurate data. Equipment from the project was used in a summer expedition to Greenland and currently is being sent to a research camp on Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica.

Analysis of ice cores from Antarctica has showed a correlation between carbon dioxide levels and abrupt changes in climate. The study’s findings provide greater insight into past greenhouse gas and climate fluctuations and seem to support computer models that project a warmer climate in the future as a result of increased carbon dioxide.

Paleontologists have discovered an amphibious predator species that lived in Antarctica during the Triassic period, about 251 to 199 million years ago. The amphibian, called Kryostega collinsoni, was probably about 15 feet in length, resembled a modern-day crocodile, and had large teeth at the edge and on the roof of its mouth. The size of the teeth suggest that it was a predator. During the Triassic period, all the world’s land was united in the supercontinent Pangaea, and the climate of Antarctica was much warmer than today.

Researchers are using mathematical techniques to locate and study giant spinning eddies in the Southern Ocean. Called gyres, the swirling water does not mix well with the rest of the ocean. Gyres can thus trap pollutants, nutrients, drifting plants and animals, and even block ocean currents. It is believed that gyres have significant effects in terms of how heat and carbon are distributed around Earth by the oceans.

One major concern associated with climate change is the potential for sea level rise, with some projections as great as 20 feet or more by the end of this century. A new study, however, concludes that the most plausible scenario will lead to a total sea level rise of roughly 3 to 6 feet by 2100. Researchers considered glaciological conditions in Greenland and Antarctica to make their projections.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s office of Biological and Environmental Research recently launched a new program to attack the problem of abrupt climate change. While many people think of climate change as a gradual process, it has happened suddenly in the past and can do so in the future. The program brings together six national laboratories: Argonne, Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge, and Pacific Northwest.

And, finally, experts are calling for a new coordinated set of international rules to govern commercial and research activities in the Arctic and Antarctica. Increases in both types of traffic have put pressure on the fragile ecosystems – something experts claim is not manageable within existing international law.

Know of another significant news story from September that you’d like to share? Reactions to one of the stories discussed here? Post a comment – we’d love to hear from you!

The magazine is aimed at K-5 educators, though middle and high school teachers will also find topics and resources of interest. Each issue is based on a theme or concept commonly taught (or introduced) in the elementary grades. The September 2008 issue, Rocks and Minerals, discusses the types of rocks found in Antarctica and provides resources for teaching about geology. October’s issue, Energy and  the Polar Environment, explores the concepts of solar radiation, albedo, and natural resources as they pertain to the elementary grades. Find these issues and more at http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/!

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears project staff also conduct online seminars and learning activities. Monthly chats at Tapped In explore the latest magazine issue. The next Tapped In event on Thursday, October 9 at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, will discuss the concepts of solar radiation, albedo, and  natural resources and explore resources found in the October issue of the magazine.

In addition, Beyond Penguins staff will host two upcoming NSTA/NSDL web seminars on Wednesday, October 29 and Thursday, Nov 13. In these seminars, Carol Landis and Jessica Fries-Gaither will share content knowledge and strategies appropriate for elementary teachers.

On October 29, learn about the types of ice in the polar regions and how to integrate physical science concepts with literacy strategies. On November 13, learn about solar energy and discover resources to use in your classroom. Register for these free web seminars at the NSTA Learning Center.

Since 2000 National Science Digital Library (NSDL) projects and partners have demonstrated multiple ways to provide high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning. This year’s NSDL Annual Meeting promises to highlight even more of these ongoing cyberlearning initiatives that in total have increased the educational value of national investment in digital library initiatives. Global institutional library and archive communities are interested in what NSDL has learned over the last eight years–how to effectively re-purpose both technology and information for K16 educational audiences.

Fedora Commons is one such knowledge community. More than half of the Fedora Commons global community of users and developers are from large international, public or academic libraries and archives. As a member of the Fedora Commons community NSDL is one of many organizations that rely on Fedora Commons open source repository software to create an underlying architecture for systems like NCore, the suite of technologies and standards that are a framework for NSDL’s digital library infrastructure.

The authors of The Academic Library in a 2.0 World (1), a research bulletin published by EducauseConnect, have suggested that libraries will increasingly be called on to prove their value to learning, teaching, and research by demonstrating tangible outcomes and evolving their structures, processes, services, and staff roles to accommodate the changes occurring in publishing and communication.

NSDL-writ-large has developed expertise in re-purposing and delivering institutional knowledge for teaching and learning since 2000. Partnering with NSDL projects is one answer to how libraries and archives in many parts of the world might begin to address an outreach mission that is new to some of them.

As one UK institutional archivist and librarian once said to me, “The idea that we should be in the business of marketing, creating new products, and providing open access to what’s inside of formerly well-guarded fortresses of knowledge is new for some of us.”

Take Oxford, for example.

Recently Sarah Thomas, The 26th Bodleian Librarian (that would be 26th over the last 9 centuries), and Director of Oxford University Library Services at Oxford University, addressed former colleagues at Cornell University about the differences between what she described as Oxford’s very old institutional library system (900 years, 10,000 medieval manuscripts, and four Magna Cartas) and Cornell’s “young” library system (about 150 years, one Magna Carta and a handful of medieval manuscripts). I was struck by the vast cultural differences she described between these two venerable library systems located across an ocean from one another, but with the same closely held ideals for institutional support of scholarship and learning.

The University of Oxford is rich in daily academic ritual among well-known buildings designed by early architects like Sir Christopher Wren. Time is even reckoned differently. Three-month long “terms”—Michaelmas Term, Hilary Term, and Trinity Term create a scholarly pace of life where many students and faculty ride bikes from place to place, and is in tune with the idea of quiet study over long periods. Academic ritual at American universities is more likely to involve loud music, multi-tasking, media and access to online social networks that change at the speed of a keystroke.

The 30,000 external and 60,000 internal Oxford registered “readers”, who we might understand as “users”, like printed materials, a lot. Many of Oxford’s library systems deliver physical books to people who are in library buildings because almost no one is allowed to take a book out of one of Oxford’s many libraries, and yet because Oxford is a UK legal depository (a copy of every publication, electronic and other non-print material are required by law to be deposited in a national library to ensure that this information is available for future generations). Thomas feels an obligation to people throughout the UK to make Oxford’s valuable knowledge resources more accessible. A small percentage of Oxford’s collections are digitized and internet access is not always available on campus. She is committed to making the needs of users, and readers, a part of the Oxford Libraries’ tradition in the future.

She concluded with the question, “How do we go forward and benefit from this remarkable past?”

Part of the answer lies in Fedora-based projects at Oxford like Forced Migration Online (FMO), a project coordinated by a team based at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development (QEH), University of Oxford. FMO aims to give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and to promote increased awareness of human displacement issues to an international community of users.

To find out more about the Fedora Commons community of libraries and archives in some surprising places and cultures worldwide come to “Fedora Commons Educational Repository Projects” at NSDL’s Annual Meeting, October 1, from 3:30-4:00 p.m. in the Capital Room, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington. D.C.

(1) Wawrzaszek, Susan, and David G. Wedaman. “The Academic Library in a 2.0 World” (Research Bulletin, Issue 19). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2008, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

Today in History - September 27, 2003 - The first European mission to the moon was launched aboard an Ariane-5 rocket carrying the SMART-1 exploration probe, along with two commercial satellites. It took 15 months to reach lunar orbit, covered over 60 million miles with only 13 gallons of fuel. After being captured by lunar gravity in November 2004, the 170-lb probe scanned the Moon for over 30 months to gain more information about the chemical composition of the Moon and whether it contains water. Powered by a revolutionary new “ion drive”, a solar-powered engine, its cost was only £70 million, much less expensive than that of U.S. space missions. The SMART-1 crashed into lunar soil in September 2006 at the end of its successful mission. The image in the upper right is an artist’s impression of the trajectory of the SMART-1 spacecraft in the final phase of its mission.

Interested readings may want to read Arianne Agogino Gieringer’s blog of December 24 on the first Ariane rocket launch. As she points out, the Ariane rocket continues to be one of the premier commercial satellite launching systems in the world today.

For more information, see the Engineering Pathway’s resources on the SMART-1 mission, rockets and aerospace engineering. For curricular resources, visit the Aerospace Engineering Education community site.

Also on this date in history in 1816, the first Stirling engine is patented. And in 1910 a key patent is issued for the production of ammonia by Frtiz Haber and Robert Le Rossingnol.

This patent could produce ammonia on a large scale directly from its component gases of hydrogen and nitrogen. Fritz Haber (right photo above) went on to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this invention in 1918.

For curricular resources, visit the Mechanical Engineering Education and Chemical Engineering Education community sites.

26% of the teachers surveyed preferred online training as their most preferred method of professional development, a dramatic increase from the previous year, as teachers become more acquainted with online learning. To learn more about how your school can participate in the annual Speak Up survey, receiving national and local data reports, go to Project Tomorrow. The 2008 survey will be released mid-October. (NSDL Site to See: To participate in 90-minute, free online professional development, register for one of the NSDL Web Seminars in partnership with the National Science Teachers’ Association, NSTA).

Other exemplary online professional development programs for course credit: NSTA Online Short Courses—the next one starting Tuesday, September 30th on energy. This is a 5-week course. Another excellent teacher professional development offering is WGBH Teachers’ Domain: courses on multimedia resources for the classroom. Using the materials found within Teachers’ Domain, teachers take an in-depth view of materials from PBS programs such as NOVA, ZOOM, and Frontline around specific topics to develop curricular units and activities around them.

Get Ready for Washington: NSDL Annual Meeting Updates
By Sarah Holsted The 2008 NSDL Annual Meeting is almost upon us. This update includes reflections on the planning process and an overview of the program.
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Related Link: http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org/

Annual Meeting 2008 Blog
Tune into NSDL Road Reports for up-to-the-minute blog posts about the NSDL Annual Meeting.
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Related Link: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/

Rolling Out NSF’s NSDL Awards for 2008-2009
Eighteen National Science Digital Library (NSDL) awards have been announced by the National Science Foundation.
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Related Link: http://tinyurl.com/3un7ph

Pathways and Projects Updates
Download NSDL Pathways Highlights and NSDL Projects Updates from the Annual Meeting web site.
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Related Link: http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org/

New Web Site for Engineering Pathway
The Engineering Pathway recently redesigned its website to better engage the younger generation by incorporating findings and recommendations from the recent National Academy of Engineering study, Changing the Conversation.
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Related Link: http://www.engineeringpathway.com

NSDL’s Science Literacy Map Tool Adds 41 New Maps and “Student Misconceptions” Feature
The new version of the National Science Digital Library’s Science Literacy Map (SLM) tool is an easy-to-use service that finds and presents students with the right resource at just the right moment.
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Related Link: http://strandmaps.nsdl.org/?id=SMS-MAP-0048

E V E N T S

Educause 2008
IT in Higher Education will once again be in the spotlight at Educause 2008 to be held in Orlando, FL October 28 - 31.
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Related Link: http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=321&bhcp=1

B O O K M A R K S

“Pat the Librarian” Featured in APS Forum on Education
Pat Viele, NSDL blogger and the physics and astronomy librarian at Cornell University has an article about information fluency for physics featured in the Summer 2008 newsletter of the APS Forum on Education.
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Related Link: http://www.aps.org/units/fed/newsletters/summer2008/viele.cfm

Timelines and review process for the Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) solicitation
The timelines and review process for the Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) solicitation,, are changing in 2009.
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Related Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07603/nsf07603.htm

I N S P I R A T I O N

Large Hadron Rap
A creative team from the CERN Large Hadron Collider found a unique way to tell the world why physicists are so interested in the results of the collision of sub atomic particles at high speeds in a new music video seen by millions of Internet viewers.
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Related Link: http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM