Polar News and Notes International Polar Year

News from the polar regions in October 2009 included a NASA air campaign to monitor the Antarctic ice sheets and coastal sea ice, continued concerns over the high levels of global carbon dioxide and climate change, and engineering technology to fight erosion. Missed these stories the first time around? Read on!
A laser technique used successfully […]

Celebrate the International Polar Week with a real-time live event with PolarTREC teacher, Cristina Galvan and the University of Wyoming scientists led by Dr. Merav Ben-David. The team is currently studying polar bear response to sea ice loss in the Arctic Ocean.
This event is free, open to the public, and hosted by ARCUS through the PolarTREC […]

The International Polar Year Youth Time Capsule Project Committee is holding a writing contest for Pan-Arctic youth, and is calling for submissions about life in the north that will be included in the IPY Time Capsule, to be re-opened 25 years from now.
The IPY Time Capsule Project is a youth-led initiative, aimed at involving northern […]

The program office of the International Polar Year 2007-2009 (IPY) has announced two Polar Weeks in coming months, October 2009 and March 2010. The theme will be: What Happens at the Poles Affects Us All. Polar weeks were a regular feature during the two years of concentrated scientific and exploring programs in the most recent […]

A team of researchers from Great Britain and Germany, funded by Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council, went to West Spitsbergen, Norway, to study how much methane might be released from Arctic seabeds as the climate warms in the future. To their surprise, they discovered plumes of methane bubbles rising from the seabed now.
The researchers chose […]