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A Picture is Worth… A High-Definition Antarctica

November 29, 2007 – 7:41 am

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This new map of Antarctica, deemed the “most geographically accurate, true-color, high-resolution views of Antarctica to date” (and 10 times more detailed than previous views, to boot), was constructed by a team of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey, NASA, USGS and the NSF. They created the images by cobbling together over a thousand images [...]

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Antarctic Team To Install Seismographs, Where ‘No Man — Or Woman — Has Gone Before’

November 10, 2007 – 4:00 am

ScienceDaily (Nov. 7, 2007) — A team of seismologists from Washington University in St. Louis, like members of the starship Enterprise, will “boldly go where no man has gone before” after Thanksgiving this year.
The team, led by Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., Washington University Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, will go [...]

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Using GPS to Track Global Warming

August 12, 2007 – 7:44 am

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One tricky aspect of measuring the rate of melting of Greenland and Antarctica’s huge ice sheets has been accounting for an effect known as “post-glacial rebound” of the Earth’s crust. This effect — which occurs when the crust is relieved of the burden of ice — manifests itself as a shifting and springing back of [...]